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There's no borders or lines you can't cross anymore. Everything is getting blended with everything. That's the dope thing about music now. Some people don't like it, more of the older people. They want to, you know, go back to old-school New York hip-hop.

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Some, Borders, About, Blended

With 'Dope Walk,' I wanted to bring back kids dancing and having fun again. That's how it used to be in Harlem. I remember everybody Harlem-shaking and 'Chicken Noodle Soup'-ing. Those were some of the most fun and memorable times in my life.

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Dancing, My Life, Some, Noodle

Me jumping on a song with Ariana Grande is just showing versatility, you know what I'm saying?

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Song, Me, Jumping, Versatility

I'm sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning that I use all mediums in one - music, fashion, and art. I'm hitting it from all angles.

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Angles, Used, Use, Mediums

Racism been over. It's the old people that keep on holding on to it.

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Over, Holding On, Holding, Old People

'Going Back to Cali' is one of my favorite songs because of all the East Coast - West Coast rivalry.

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West Coast, Back, Going, East Coast

Chris Brown owns 14 of my belts. Swizz Beatz owns a zillion of my belts. They were supporting me before I was even anybody.

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Brown, Before, Anybody, Supporting

Jeremy Scott reminds me of Harmony Korine, mixing all worlds and making them into one - you just never know what he's up to.

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Harmony, Making, Worlds, Reminds

People who are scared don't live life.

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Live, People, Scared, Live Life

I used to be a daredevil on BMX bikes.

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Used, Bikes, Daredevil

No city owns me, you know what I'm saying? I'm from New York, but no city owns me. Nobody can bottle up my sound and box me in. Yes, I am a rapper, but am I a New York rapper? No. I am from New York, I love New York to death, but I will not conform myself to one place, no.

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Love, Death, City, Owns

When I was growing up, I saw the Aaliyah shirts, the DMX shirts, or the collab shirts with DMX and Aaliyah when they had a single together. Those were the dope collage shirts with their faces all over it. They were doing cool things like that.

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Doing, Over It, Collage, Faces

I always shout out my dad. My artistic roots come from him. He had his own T-shirt company and taught me the trade.

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Own, Always, Dad, Shout

I thought I was half white or something because I only know white people as Ferguson as their last name.

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Thought, Last, Half, Ferguson

Rapping can be repetition sometimes. Sometimes you gotta highlight your words in a certain kind of way. So I always was a fan of sing-rapping. It was always funny to me a little bit, and I think that being funny and being able to laugh, even at yourself, is a form of flattery.

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Flattery, Sometimes, I Think, Rapping

I used to do design before I was actually rapping. I went to art and design high school.

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Art, High, Actually, Rapping

A lot of rappers been putting out a lot of sub-par visuals. I feel like the visuals could be better.

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Been, Putting, Visuals, Rappers

DMX was just one of the figures that I thought no one could ever be better than. I used to look up to him so much. The bikes, the dogs, that's where I come from.

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Thought, Could, Figures, Bikes

Andy Warhol's art wasn't that interesting to me. He was more interesting to me as a person. He was art himself. I don't even think he was really into art, per se. He may have liked to do it, but I think he was more into people being into him.

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Art, Think, Warhol, Per

I create art. It's kinda abstract.

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Art, Create, Kinda, Abstract

'Trap Lord' is basically the writer of the hood. It's the kid that's from the hood, from the trap, who's going to preach to his friends and his homies. Because they're not going to sit in no church. So they listen to me instead of going to a church, because I understand them, and that's really what the 'Hood Pope' is.

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Kid, Lord, Pope, Hood

Tour is fun.

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Fun, Tour

It's kind of hard for you to be doing huge things and still be knowing what's happening on the street level.

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Doing, Level, Still, Happening

Alexander Wang is a young designer, and his style is so profound. He took sports and street and kind of combined it into upscale high fashion. He made a white T-shirt a luxury.

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Sports, Young, Took, Alexander

I'm gonna put out another album and then another album after that. And then I'm gonna put out a mixtape, and then I'm gonna put out another ten songs, and then I'm gonna put out a hundred more songs and a thousand songs after that.

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Album, Hundred, Gonna, Ten

Sometimes I can't sleep 'cause I can't get a melody or a beat out my head, so I just have to wake up and, like, record it on a voice note.

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Voice, Like, Note, Melody

Mixtapes are always small scale to me - they never get taken seriously, and they're always short-lived.

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Small, Always, Short-Lived, Taken

I used to listen to 'Ready to Die' around the time I dropped out of college. I was scrambling for work and money.

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Work, College, Die, Ready

'Illmatic' was dope.

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Dope

I'm relevant because I fill a void for people who aren't doing what they want to do in life.

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Doing, Want, Relevant, Void

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