American - Musician | November 20, 1965 -
I guess when time came to make 'To The 5 Boroughs,' we had something important to say.
Mike D
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It's never been our intention to sell millions of albums, but if our message touches that many people, then so be it.
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Growing up in New York City and hip-hop are two inseparable things, two things that are totally intertwined in our lives.
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Denver and Boulder are good record-buying cities. I don't know why.
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The amazing thing about music is that however many thousands of records I've got now, I know that there are still thousands more that I haven't even begun to discover.
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What a lot of the world missed was just how caring New York became post-9/11.
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When I first became aware of music, it was probably the same way a lot of people do - even more suburban or rural people - from my older brothers playing music.
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New York isn't segregated the way many American cities are, where there are specific ethnic neighborhoods that don't necessarily co-exist, or they co-exist but in a much separate sense.
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I remember going to the East Village for the first time as a fifteen-year-old and going to Tompkins Square Park. That really seemed like a pretty edgy thing to do.
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For me, growing up in New York, it started with Elvis Costello and the Clash and then got into louder things like Bad Brains and Stimulators, because those were, like, the local bands. Then I started getting into bands from England like the Slits. I remember seeing Gang of Four at Irving Plaza; that was a really big show for me.
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What would've been the downside of holding bin Laden accountable by our own values of justice by which our country is based on?
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We just have to be careful of our actions as world citizens.
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