American - Musician | May 5, 1975 -
All of my songs were about my firsthand experiences. Pretty much, I've learned how to become my own muse and take situations from my own life and wear them on my sleeve.
Raheem DeVaughn
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I like to think that everything I do is tastefully done and doesn't come off necessarily like ratchet or something that tears women down. I like to make tasteful, seductive music.
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Even in a lot of hip-hop music, they tell you don't give your heart to a woman. But many of the most successful rappers are head-over-heels in love.
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A lot of people put out an album, and you never hear from them again. They're working a day job or doing whatever to survive through life.
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I try to stay away from yes-men in my crew of immediate friends and peers. You got people that will tell you you're the greatest ever, but I need people that can tell me where I need to improve. I can respect the honest opinion.
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I think I've nurtured the following that I have to the point where I can consistently do a certain type of numbers when I put a project out.
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I want to be that guy who gives you an album every 12 months.
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You can't abandon an audience you created, because people will find someone else.
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When you go pick out my album, the money actually comes to me and my company directly.
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When things happen socially in our community, as artists, we've got the right to exercise our voices if we choose to, use our powers for good.
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I walked away from the Jive Records situation, but I still have a great relationship with a lot of the workers and a lot of people who were in that system that have moved on to other places. I felt like being there; it totally wasn't understood what the Raheem DeVaughn movement was about.
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I don't make records just for the ladies. I make it for the fellas, too.
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