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I grew up in such a melting pot. There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures.

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Grow, Other, Melting Pot, Pot

I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.

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Listening, Psychedelic, Like, Foreign

I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.

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Through, Festivals, Been, Middle Eastern

Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.

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Listening, Feels, Billy, Musician

I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.

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Think, Pick, About, Pick And Choose

I'm rap's vigilante. I'm out for justice.

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Justice, Out, Rap, Vigilante

Albanians, we tan well! I don't burn; I bake.

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Tan, Burn, Well, Bake

I have to be able to rap. I don't have the look. I don't have the typical slim-dude, fancy-clothes look. That's not me. I have to be able to rap - there is no other choice, or else I get eaten alive.

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Alive, Other, Rap, Eaten

The first rappers I ever got into were Wu-Tang, Mobb Deep, and Nas. Those are the guys. Those are the dudes that flipped my wig.

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Deep, Got, Flipped, Wig

I'm a piece of work, man. I will do what I want, at all times, always. Nobody's going to persuade me one way or another. I can't be persuaded. I take criticism, I listen, I analyze, but at the end of the day, I make the decisions. Because that's the way I started, and that's the way I'm going to finish.

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End Of The Day, Another, Analyze

My 9-year-old daughter can recite every line from 'Easy Rider,' and that is not an easy song to do. She raps all of Nicki Minaj and everything; she's dope. She has my musical ear for sure. She sings, and she's beautiful. It's very powerful.

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Line, Very, Sings, Rider

I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.

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Other, Had, Your, Catchy

I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.

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Big, Always, Human Being, Apologize

'Molto Mario' was the show that sparked my entire interest in cooking.

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Cooking, Interest, Show, Mario

My main influence is Kool G Rap and Cam'ron, pretty much. If you were to mix those two people up, I wish that would be me... This is my voice. I sound like nobody; I sound like me.

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Voice, Sound, Main, Kool

You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.

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Work, Work Hard, Explain, Right Time

I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.

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Love, Always, Making, So-Called

I'm the Bjorn Boerg of table tennis.

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Tennis, Table

I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.

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Song, Feel, Started, Sitting

I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos Santana. I'd hear Queen. I'd hear all these Turkish people, like, bands that he grew up listening to. He was in a band as well.

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Father, Queen, Bands, Turkish

New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.

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Love, Before, Feels, Regular Guy

Did I collect baseball cards? I've got 10 books full of plastic in my mother's house. All the Upper Decks, the Fleers, the Fleer Ultras. My grandfather brought me to the trade shows. I collected Marvel cards, too.

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Cards, Brought, Upper, Collect

I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.

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New, Middle, Like, Yacht

When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.

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Mind, Think, I Think, Hip-Hop

My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'

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Father, Pretty, Like, Free Spirit

The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.

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Love, Trust, Treat, Restaurant Business

I'm naturally a nice person. I'm not trying to have any problems with people. I'm done with the drama and trouble. I want a stress-free life.

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People, Want, Any, Nice Person

I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.

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Growing, Guy, Still, Yankees

I guess I am a rapper. It's weird to be called that, or tell someone that's your profession.

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Tell, Profession, Your, Rapper

I grew up in the '90s. My goal isn't to be a '90s rapper, but I have little hints of '90s influence in my music. It's a modern approach to classic rap.

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Goal, Rap, Hints, Rapper

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