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Life imitates art and back around.
Statik Selektah / Record Producer
Imitates
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Gang Starr was like the blueprint of my career.
Statik Selektah / Record Producer
Gang
Blueprint
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I want to do more R&B, more reggae, everything.
Statik Selektah / Record Producer
Reggae
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I've always been like the No. 1 Boston hip-hop fan.
Statik Selektah / Record Producer
Boston
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Every person I meet is a rapper, DJ, or makes beats.
Statik Selektah / Record Producer
Beats
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Sampling is very important for me. It's the backbone of hip-hop.
Statik Selektah / Record Producer
Sampling
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I learned so much from listening to Jay-Z, M.O.P. and Gang Starr.
Statik Selektah / Record Producer
Gang
Jay-Z
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When I made 'Detroit vs. Everybody,' I knew. I knew this for Eminem.
Statik Selektah / Record Producer
Detroit
Eminem
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Way too many people are trying to do the same thing with their lives.
Statik Selektah / Record Producer
People
Trying
Way
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I definitely try to go above and beyond with live mixing and scratching.
Statik Selektah / Record Producer
Mixing
Scratching
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My mother used to stop me from going to DJ battles. I'd, like, cry, get really upset.
Statik Selektah / Record Producer
Upset
Battles
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I don't do albums for album sales. I just do it as a conversation piece and a business card.
Statik Selektah / Record Producer
Just Do It
Card
Sales
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I grew up looking up to DJ Premier, who would have the illest hip-hop joint on everybody's album.
Statik Selektah / Record Producer
Joint
Premier
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Some artists send their verses, and others record in my studio. Depends. I prefer them being there.
Statik Selektah / Record Producer
Being There
Depends
Verses
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Every record I make, I want people to feel what I used to feel when I used to crack open a CD and press play.
Statik Selektah / Record Producer
People Feel Make
Cd
Crack
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I had completely changed from being a mixtape DJ to being a producer and working with Nas and stuff like that.
Statik Selektah / Record Producer
Dj
Producer
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Even when I have someone playing the song I give them the idea. I'm learning. I'm getting better over the years.
Statik Selektah / Record Producer
Ideas
Song
Years
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Brooklyn just got that energy to me that's so hip-hop and so New York City. You know, New York City is the grittiest city in the world.
Statik Selektah / Record Producer
Brooklyn
New York City
World Me City
World City Me
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With 'Ready to Die,' that was some of the most honest rhymes of all-time. There's some real dark material on there that Biggie was going through.
Statik Selektah / Record Producer
All Time
Biggie
Rhymes
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When I went to AI New England in Boston, I used to do my mixtapes, and honestly, if you look back at any of my mixtapes, every single mixtape tells a story.
Statik Selektah / Record Producer
Boston
New England
Ai
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I get mad if I'm not presented as an actual artist on tour. I don't want to be seen as just some DJ that plays between sets. I have a bigger brand than that.
Statik Selektah / Record Producer
Bigger
Mad
Actual
Brand
Plays
Presented
Sets
Tour
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I grew up in a city - it's called Lawrence, Massachusetts. It's about half an hour north of Boston. When my parents got divorced, I moved to New Hampshire because my father worked up there.
Statik Selektah / Record Producer
Boston
Divorced
Hampshire
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Lawrence
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There are so many rappers now that it's cluttering our culture. 90% of the time at a show there are more artists in the crowd than there are fans - it's too much. Too many people try to give you CD's.
Statik Selektah / Record Producer
Artist
Cds
Rapper
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You got to have the right lawyer and good management. I went years and years without management and even a good lawyer; I used to handle contracts on my own, and it was definitely corners that they would cut. It wouldn't have happened if I had a good lawyer behind me.
Statik Selektah / Record Producer
Contracts
Corners
Handle
Management
Good Me Lawyer
Years And Years
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I started radio, actually, when I was 13. I started DJing when I was 13, but later in that year, I started a high school station at Phillips Academy. I didn't actually go there, but it was in the town I went to high school in. So literally, within six months of DJing, they started mailing me records; it was crazy.
Statik Selektah / Record Producer
Mailing
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