American - Musician | May 4, 1985 -
The one thing that I learned in college, actually, was that you may reach tremendous highs and tremendous lows.
Jidenna
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I reached rock bottom halfway through college. And it was - because of all the pressure that I think we're talking about right now - the pressure to learn how to budget, the pressure to really abandon everything that you ever learned. You don't have a comfort zone anymore. You don't have your neighborhood. You don't have your family with you.
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I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, 'Uh-uh, you can't make money from music. You have to be a doctor, a lawyer, engineer. Something that's going to do something for this world. Music doesn't do anything.' And I had to fight that, his passion, and fight the society that I was from.
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I was raised with a father who really believed in the bridge between all Africans around the world.
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My father raised me to build computers, hardware. Literally, as an 8 year old, I had a soldering iron and circuit boards, and this was in neighbourhoods that wouldn't have a whole lot of money or anything. And I figured out ways to just hustle.
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I describe myself as a big kid with an old soul, I'm very playful whimsical, but I definitely have that old soul as well.
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One day, my mum bought me this music production software for my computer, and I started making beats... I realised it was more like production than a video game, but it was a video game when I was playing it. That's how I got into music production.
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The most important thing for me is the thing I strive for. But I also hope when I play my songs for people - adult, children, mostly children - that they feel mighty, they feel noble, they feel like warriors. And they feel like they can do anything in the world because that's how I feel.
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I began my studies in a sound and electrical engineering program, but I ultimately created a major called 'Ritual Art.'
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It's better to do your purpose imperfectly than to do someone else's purpose perfectly.
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Everything you touch touches you.
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I don't have one geographic location that I'm exclusively loyal to.
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