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• ‟ Classic rock, psychedelic rock - I like to dig up old music and see what I can get influenced by.

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• ‟ I do a lot of collaborations and productions, whether it's Switch or Steve Aoki or No ID or Will Smith or No Doubt - I always like to collaborate and be a quality control person for the people 'cause I have my own taste in music and bring that to other peoples' brands and help them learn a little bit.

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• ‟ Dancehall has always had a homophobic problem, but you go to dance parties in Jamaica, and some of the biggest dancers are kinda gay, just not outspoken about it. Dancehall was the first kind of music I was DJing, and it was always more about the rhythm.

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• ‟ The kids that are making the ghetto stuff I can't even reach are the ones that are inspiring me to play music for the other kids in the city they don't even know about. If I don't get those kids making music, there won't be an original kid DJing like me in five to 10 years.

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• ‟ You can never judge any music by their audience. That's the main reason people in England have a prejudice against someone like Skrillex. You judge people by their music. That's always been first and foremost.

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• ‟ I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music.

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• ‟ In Philly, there are a lot of social programs. If you have a degree, you can go and apply. I was basically a social worker, but I became sort of a sub teacher in a special program, helping kids with reading or math. But we would also do plays, learn about music... We were doing lots of fun stuff, but that was such hard work.

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• ‟ We first started to rent old VFW halls in Philly or whatever; we rented kegs and did parties and played our own music. We had to find a way to do it because nobody else was helping us, and I think now it's important to keep those dialogues happening, those parties happening.

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• ‟ New York feels like the whole city is into dance music. That's not how it felt when I was younger. There was more of a hipster scene.

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• ‟ To me, rap music is bigger than who's the coolest rapper, the biggest rapper. It's everything about your personality.

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• ‟ I see the value in every kind of music, even country.

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• ‟ Dance music is so interchangeable. There's not a lot of face to it. It's a bunch of Dutch DJs with the same haircut.

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• ‟ If anybody is excited about my music, that's all I care about. I care about people who are excited about new music.

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• ‟ As a DJ, it's my job to break new music. And instead of it just being the stuff that's coming from the major labels or the big pop records, I've always gravitated to something that's just different, you know?

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• ‟ That's what I care about is the people I work with and representing them and helping to make their music apparent for the rest of the world.

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• ‟ When it comes down to helping kids, a lot of ways for education to move forward is through music because that's exciting to kids. Reading books and going to a bookstore is not that exciting.

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