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Adrian Younge Quotes

American - Musician | 1978 -

It's important to the world to see superheroes that are spread across our demographic.

World Important See Spread Our

It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal.

Hero Black Know Important Young See

Luke Cage is seen in 'Jessica Jones,' but he doesn't really come into his own until the 'Luke Cage' series. That's when you really see who he is.

You Cage See Own Seen Come

I'm a hip hop dude who loves scoring for film.

Film Scoring Dude Who Hip Hop Hip

Sometimes, a concept is needed to spark myself and the vocalist; sometimes a concept isn't necessary for that spark. It all depends on the moment, because I don't want to be that dude that every album has to be this story or that story.

Myself Moment Story Spark Sometimes

A lot of people record on a laptop and use plug-ins, which might be OK for the kind of music that they're doing. But for the kind of music that I'm doing, that just doesn't work. I can't cut corners; everything has to be organic.

Work Music People Doing Kind Cut

Change the sound. Make people rethink what they're doing. That's what I really wanna do.

Change People Doing Sound Rethink

My studio is fully analog. There's nothing modern. There's not even a computer in my studio.

Nothing Modern Computer Even Studio

I always say to people that I left hip-hop in '97, meaning that I departed from listening to predominately hip-hop and just started really getting into records from the late '60s, early '70s. And once I made that change, I realized how much great music was made back in the day, and it started to become apparent how much we've lost in music.

Change Music Great Day People Early

Like with me, like around '97, for Christmas my parents bought me an MPC 2000 sampler and a little eight-track cassette recorder. And I started sampling records and, you know, producing hip-hop beats. And it got to the point where I realized - I innately realized that the music I liked the most was made by people that played instruments.

Music Parents People Me You Know

'Luke Cage' came out in 1972 at the height of the blaxploitation era. It was a literary response to this notion of blaxploitation movies. It was the first time in American culture that Hollywood was embracing black movies.

Time Culture Black American Movies

When Curtis Mayfield made 'Super Fly,' he used the lyric to make a statement.

Fly Used Statement Make Made He

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