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Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. that's an important part of being a successful musician. it's a good thing, i guess.
-Ezra Koenig
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Growing Up Listening To Rap Music, You

Ezra Koenig
Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. that's an important part of being a successful musician. it's a good thing, i guess.
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I don't view myself as a musician anymore - i view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when i'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. that's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now i look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being.
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Most people define themselves by what they do - 'i'm a musician.' then one day it occurred to me that i'm only a musician when i'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. i don't do that 24 hours a day. i'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - i mean, when i go to vote, i'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'
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My mom, she got taken away from me when i was 14 years old. she is incarcerated. my sister was incarcerated. i was homeless. when my mom went away when i was 14... i was forced to live with my aunt. my aunt, she doesn't like rap music. she thinks rap music is the devil's music. basically she said, "yo, if you are going to do music you can't do it in my house."
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Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. what holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. it's irritating. you've gotta rap from the diaphragm.
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I love jazz. so to me, there are two main types of jazz. there's dancing jazz, and then there's listening jazz. listening jazz is like thelonius monk or john coltrane, where it's a listening experience. so that's what i like; i like to make stuff that you listen to. it's not really meant to get you up; it's meant to get your mind focused. that's why you sit and listen to jazz. you dance to big band or whatever, but for the most part, you sit and listen to jazz. i think it comes from that aesthetic, trying to take that jazz listening experience and put it on hip-hop.
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