Quotes by Awkwafina - Page 1

I really like gross Chinese things.
Awkwafina /
Chinese
Gross
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Eventually, I started to actually enjoy rapping.
Awkwafina /
Rapping
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I like to make songs that are based on concepts.
Awkwafina /
Concepts
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I'm not trying to unite Asian people with my music.
Awkwafina /
Music People Trying
Unite
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I studied my craft at the same place as Nicki Minaj.
Awkwafina /
Studied
Craft
Nicki Minaj
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My every birthday wish was, 'I want to someday be on TV.'
Awkwafina /
Birthday
Someday
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I was working a corporate job, but I really wanted to do music.
Awkwafina /
Corporate
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I was physically addicted to 'Tony Hawk's American Wasteland' for PS2.
Awkwafina /
Physically
Addicted
American
Hawk
Tony
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I think the people get that I'm just kind of an anomaly in a certain way.
Awkwafina /
People Way Think
Anomaly
Certain Way
Just Kind
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My grandmother can never really teach me anything because she skips steps.
Awkwafina /
Grandmother
Steps
Me Never Anything
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My grandma was very traditional, but she herself is a rebel of that culture.
Awkwafina /
Grandma
Rebel
Herself
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I grew up thinking Margaret Cho and Lucy Liu were my idols because that's it.
Awkwafina /
Idols
Lucy
Margaret
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They're not going to have a homeless person on a poster representing New York.
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New York
Homeless
Representing
Poster
York
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I am American. If you drop me in Seoul, I don't think I'm going to thrive there.
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Thrive
Drop
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I grew up two train stops from where A Tribe Called Quest grew up, and one stop from Nas.
Awkwafina /
Tribe Called Quest
Stops
Quest
Tribe
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You can't really label me as a musician, a comedian, or a rapper - you know, it's different.
Awkwafina /
Comedian
Musician
Rapper
Label
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I started by producing, and the rapping came second to that, because I wanted to fill out the beat.
Awkwafina /
Rapping
Fill
Producing
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I think it's important for people to understand that as a woman, I can only rap about the parts I have.
Awkwafina /
Parts
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When I was 15, I talked to Liam Neeson because I was the only one of my friends ballsy enough to engage him.
Awkwafina /
Engage
Talked
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If women dabble in rap but they're not rappers, to get from dabbling to doing it is really difficult, confidence-wise.
Awkwafina /
Rap
Dabble
Rappers
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'Welcome To New York' is one of those songs that, with just one single radio play, will make at least 10 New Yorkers move to Marfa, Texas.
Awkwafina /
Just One
New Yorkers
Radio
Texas
Welcome
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It's definitely a privilege to be able to do what you love to do; it's not something that everyone gets to do, so I feel really good about that.
Awkwafina /
Able
Privilege
What You Love
Feel
Really
Love Good Feel
Everyone
Definitely
Do What You Love
Gets
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Let's take Taylor Swift. She lives in a huge beautiful apartment; she gets limo-ed everywhere. She's not seeing what it means to live in New York.
Awkwafina /
New York
Apartment
Huge
Seeing
Everywhere
Gets
Means
She
Swift
Taylor
Taylor Swift
York
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I was always that kid. When I got ice cream, I put it in my eye. When I got my license, I got pulled over so many times for playing 'Les Mis' too loud.
Awkwafina /
Cream
Eye
Ice
Ice Cream
License
Loud
Les
Pulled
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If you don't address race, then people are like, 'Why don't you talk about the elephant in the room?' But you have to do it right. It can't be gimmicky.
Awkwafina /
Address
Elephant
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It's not nice to say it - I know female musicians, but not so many rappers. I can't think of one I idolize, which is sad, but I'm hoping that will change.
Awkwafina /
Rappers
Hoping
Musicians
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I started with me as Awkwafina reciting 'Othello' monologues, and I'd send those to my friends. It started like that, and then it went into more music-y stuff.
Awkwafina /
Monologues
Reciting
Othello
Send
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I think rap in general allows you to be more lyrically expressive. It's a lot easier to state your identity, as opposed to with a guitar making all these weird metaphors.
Awkwafina /
Expressive
Rap
Lyrically
Metaphors
Opposed
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When I went to college, it became more of a hobby, and that's when I think I got the realest music education. It wasn't something that I had to do. It wasn't an obligation.
Awkwafina /
Obligation
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I'm torn between wanting to connect with what I grew up with and what's available, living in Brooklyn. I don't have a grimy supermarket that decapitates frogs' heads nearby.
Awkwafina /
Available
Brooklyn
Frogs
Torn
Connect
Heads
Nearby
Supermarket
Wanting
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I legitimately wanted to know if Mayor Bloomberg was going to ban large margaritas that I cry over while on a date alone at Dallas BBQ as a part of his controversial soda ban.
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Controversial
Cry
Dallas
Soda
Ban
Date
Large
Mayor
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My mom passed away when I was 4 years old, and she came from a very conservative Korean background. I feel like my life would've been incredibly different had she still been alive.
Awkwafina /
Life Mom My Life
Passed
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I feel that its important for me to be out there and to represent the face. At the same time, for me as an individual, I think the Asian-American face can be crowded with the American identity.
Awkwafina /
American Identity
Asian American
Crowded
Identity
Individual
Time Face Me
Represent
Same Time
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More than anything, I'm an American kid, and my music reflects that more so than being an Asian-American. I think it's important but also something that can detrimental to your career if celebrated too much.
Awkwafina /
Asian American
Detrimental
Music Your Important
Celebrated
More Than Anything
Reflects
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I have lived in this city my whole life and have seen the way gentrification has changed it. I'm not necessarily against transplants, as 75 percent of my good friends, roommate, and boyfriend are not native New Yorkers.
Awkwafina /
Boyfriend
Native
New Yorkers
Life Good City
Good Friends
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Rap was started by black people and, thus, is at the foundation of black culture. So people cannot always wrap their minds around someone like me being inspired by it. But if you listen to the things we're saying, they're authentically us.
Awkwafina /
Foundation
Inspired
Culture Me Black
Minds
Saying
Thus
Wrap
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I remember watching Margaret Cho with my grandmother on TV. She was my hero, not only because she was funny, but because she showed me that it's okay to be yourself, that it's okay to be a brash yellow girl and to be a strong and brave woman.
Awkwafina /
Funny
Girl
Brash
Grandmother
Hero
Okay
Remember
Strong
Yellow
Yourself
Because
Tv
Be Yourself
Woman
Margaret
She
Watching
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I think that's why I was able to do well in the beginning: because it was such a foreign thing. People frame it in a negative way, like, 'For Asian-Americans there's no one out there, so that must be really bad for you.' No, I benefited from it.
Awkwafina /
Frame
In The Beginning
Negative Way
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I can't tell if I want to be a rapper who's funny because I kind of enjoy just doing really stupid songs about nothing. But I want to have a career that's long-lasting, and I don't think people want to listen to a straight-up comedy rapper all the time.
Awkwafina /
Long Lasting
Rapper
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Other female rappers are overly sexual, have no wit, and their lyrics are so generic. I want to change the game to make rap that shows I'm not a normal female rapper - it's not about how rich I am, how much sex I have, or how many boyfriends I have. That's just not me.
Awkwafina /
Boyfriend
Female
Generic
Normal
Rapper
Rich
Sex
Wit
Rappers
Overly
Sexual
How Much
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I used to chop up C-Span soundbites or interviews with politicians like John Kerry or Bill Clinton into a radio-esque show hosted by Awkwafina and her producer, Mookie. I would pitch down my vocals to have male guests and would send them to a small circle of friends after they were done.
Awkwafina /
Clinton
Guests
Interviews
John Kerry
Male
Bill Clinton
Chop
Circle
Producer
Send
Vocals
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I think people always want to hear that there are barriers that exist for us. But the more I started to realize artists that are kind of like me in my lane, like, if they were white or African-American, they often had trouble because it wasn't the quality of their music: they just didn't stick out.
Awkwafina /
Quality
African American
Barriers
Music Me People
Music Always Me
Artists
Exist
Lane
Realize
Stick
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I think there are barriers, but I think for me specifically, my barrier is being rejected from the kind of hip-hop elitists that think I'm not appropriating it, but just not serious about it. They think I'm a Lonely Island, Weird Al, you know - like a parody rapper. So that alienates me from a lot of things.
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Lonely
Parody
Rejected
Me Weird Know
Al
Barrier
Island
Specifically
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I like to rap about things that are funny but mostly things that are relatable. I remember there was this one song with Ja Rule, and I forgot, exactly, but it was with Ashanti, and there's a line in it that was like, 'She hit me up on AIM.' But that wasn't the actual line; it was something else, but I was like, 'Oh my God, he uses AIM!'
Awkwafina /
Aim
Rap
Song
Actual
Funny God Me
Hit
Oh
Exactly
Forgot
Line
Mostly
Oh My God
Rule
Something Else
Uses
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I guess, like, I've always listened to rap, and I remember I specifically started listening to, like, pop-rap when I was, like, 11, you know, like Shaggy. I love Shaggy. And then I discovered, like, underground rap when I got to high school, and really, that's when it kind of blossomed. I don't feel like my love for rap blossomed off of Shaggy.
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Love Always Remember
Blossomed
Discovered
Listened
Specifically
Underground
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