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Growing up, i liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like motown, but the biggest group of all was the beatles.

-Eddie Murphy

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Growing Up, I Liked All The Stuff

Eddie Murphy

Growing up, i liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like motown, but the biggest group of all was the beatles.

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It just annoyed me that people got so into the beatles. "beatles, beatles, beatles." it's not that i don't like talking about them. i've never stopped talking about them. it's "beatles this, beatles that, beatles, beatles, beatles, beatles." then in the end, it's like "oh, sod off with the beatles," you know?

I nodded. i liked augustus waters. i really, really, really liked him. i liked the way his story ended with someone else. i liked his voice. i liked that he took existentially fraught free throws. i liked that he was a tenured professor in the department of slightly crooked smiles with a dual appointment in the department of having a voice that made my skin feel more like skin. and i liked that he had two names. i’ve always liked people with two names, because you get to make up your mind what you call them: gus or augustus? me, i was always just hazel, univalent hazel.

So to compare the beatles, obviously the beatles are the beatles, but in hip-hop terms, tribe is the beatles. grandmaster flash and the furious five are the beatles. big daddy kane is jimi hendrix. it means that much to people that grew up with it.

The only recording studio was in motown - it was called tamla/motown at that time and we used to audition there because smokey robinson was at that studio and berry gordy was the president. i remember asking smokey to listen to my group and he did. for the first couple of years we were just singing background. we used to back up marvin gaye; mary wells was there then, marv johnson, the marvelettes, martha reeves and the vandellas, junior walker and the all-stars.

I am not the beatles. i'm me. paul isn't the beatles...the beatles are the beatles. separately, they are separate.

Once you're a motown artist, you're always a motown artist

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