American - Musician | November 10, 1978 -
If I make a song, and it's my song, like 'Lean On,' we're going to make money off the synchs, the Spotify, and we get to headline festivals on it. That's the model I want to explore.
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The traditional media never gave Bernie Sanders the time of day. But he went viral the same way hip-hop and new dances go viral. And I'm part of that culture.
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Snapchat's the place where people are hearing and learning about culture.
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Even in America, we're not a huge act by any means, Major Lazer.
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We first started to rent old VFW halls in Philly or whatever; we rented kegs and did parties and played our own music. We had to find a way to do it because nobody else was helping us, and I think now it's important to keep those dialogues happening, those parties happening.
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My first production job after M.I.A. was actually the xx, but they didn't like what I did, and at the end of the day, we used their demos.
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I love Marvin Gaye. I like jazz and all that stuff.
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I used to be a record collector. Mark Ronson, Questlove and I used to be part of, like, a record-trading crew.
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I'm not a superstar, per se... but I'm a musical creator - a producer in the same vein as what Quincy Jones was, or Pharrell and Timbaland were.
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