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"For instance, if you're playing a record with drums - horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record with horns and slip it in at certain times."
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"I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound."
"Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound."
"If it wasn't for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn't look like they do and rappers wouldn't sound like they do."
"If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?"
"I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is."
"I am a fan of today's sound as long as we don't get too slick, and yet I am very reverent of my roots."
"The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it."
"When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes."
"It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo."
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"I think what's happening here is, there's a group or maybe one person who is saying this is gonna be the definition and this is what we want to get the kids to do now."
"But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and my first student Grand Wizard Theodore, and to go out after creating this art form and finding everyone jamming to it - that too was pretty scary."
"Disco B still rolls with me now. He's still doing his thing. He does clubs in different places. He was very instrumental in helping me perfect my craft."
"Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn't buy those types of records."
"Normal kids in their teens want to go and date girls and do mischievous things, your hormones are jumping around, but I stayed in my bedroom in search of something."
"We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop."
"So what I'm trying to say is from a musical aspect for anybody to say that whatever they're doing in Florida is not Hip Hop or whatever they're doing in LA is not Hip Hop, who are these people to say that?"
"We gotta stop fighting amongst each other. I think the only rift should be when take it the stage and try to out perform each other."
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