American - Producer | January 23, 1982 -
I've always been like the No. 1 Boston hip-hop fan.
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I get mad if I'm not presented as an actual artist on tour. I don't want to be seen as just some DJ that plays between sets. I have a bigger brand than that.
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I had completely changed from being a mixtape DJ to being a producer and working with Nas and stuff like that.
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When I made 'Detroit vs. Everybody,' I knew. I knew this for Eminem.
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I come from a traditional hip-hop background.
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I grew up in a city - it's called Lawrence, Massachusetts. It's about half an hour north of Boston. When my parents got divorced, I moved to New Hampshire because my father worked up there.
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I kinda gave my childhood to hip-hop, literally. I didn't go to parties in high school. All I did - well, I was DJing parties in high school.
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My mother used to stop me from going to DJ battles. I'd, like, cry, get really upset.
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I started radio, actually, when I was 13. I started DJing when I was 13, but later in that year, I started a high school station at Phillips Academy. I didn't actually go there, but it was in the town I went to high school in. So literally, within six months of DJing, they started mailing me records; it was crazy.
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I grew up looking up to DJ Premier, who would have the illest hip-hop joint on everybody's album.
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I want to do more R&B, more reggae, everything.
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Gang Starr was like the blueprint of my career.
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