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I was Jazzy Jeff's assistant.
Troy Carter /
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I used to love listening to Jazzy Jeff.
Juicy J / Rapper
Jazzy
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I saw 'True Blood' once, and I like the jazzy feel of it and stuff.
Norman Reedus / Actor
Blood
Saws
Stuff
Jazzy
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Journey was a jazzy jam band when they first started. They were very out there.
Steve Miller / Guitarist
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My crew used to listen to 'Taking It to the Top' by Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince.
Dj Premier /
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I came up with Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. Those guys, they took me under their wing at an early age.
Troy Carter /
Early Age
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I really love advertising art of the '50s and the way mid-century design was often represented in jazzy, fast art.
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Advertising
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I come from a jazzy, acoustic, folky background. Everything has to work with melodies; the words have to have meaning.
Yuna / Singer-Songwriter
Acoustic
Background
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Melodies
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So my go-tos are bodysuits, crop tops, I like to wear a cute little crop top, but then maybe a jazzy pant. I wear a lot of pants.
Rachel Lindsay /
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I had this little rap group, and we were called '2 Too Many'... We used to hang out in front of Jazzy Jeff's record studio every day.
Troy Carter /
Rap
Hang
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I think it's my job to make any question interesting by coming up with a jazzy answer, otherwise I hardly deserve the spotlight, right?
Michelle Tea / Author
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Spotlight
Hardly
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Otherwise
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
Edmund White / Novelist
America
Contemporary
Desire
Tone
Writing
Admit
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I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band.
Jimmy Chamberlin / Drummer
Approach
Band
People
Play
Thinking
Music People Way
Based
Hear
Hear Music
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I'm doing this record called 'Epicloud.' Over the course of the full record, there's sort of new agey stuff, jazzy stuff, really heavy stuff. We basically cover the gamut.
Devin Townsend / Musician
Heavy
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Jazzy Jeff is somebody who taught me what I really wanted to do for other people. He has the big ol' house where musicians can come there, stay for a while, create music, eat, reset.
Masego /
Taught
Music Me People
Jazzy
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The type of music that I love to sing would have to be more bluesy and jazzy and more soul-like 'cause I love to belt when it comes to singing, so I guess bigger songs are what I lean more towards.
Thia Megia / Singer
Bigger
Love Music Singing
Belt
Bluesy
Towards
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Lean
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When I discovered Gil Scott-Heron, I discovered a musical hero, a man who spoke baritone truth to power over jazzy funk at a time when funky music was primarily about shake, shake, shaking your booty.
Will Hermes / Broadcaster
Men
Funk
Hero
Musical
Time Truth Power
Baritone
Discovered
Jazzy
Primarily
Shake
Spoke
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What Jazzy Jeff and rappers like him talk about is phony stuff. They're not into street raps, into telling what's really happening out there. They're talking about what the white world and the white kids can identity with.
Mc Ren /
Phony
Rappers
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White World
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When you're riding around with the fellas, you want to listen to something real masculine, like 'Boyz-in-the-Hood.' How would it look riding around and listening to something wimpy like 'I Need Love' or that phony stuff Jazzy Jeff does?
Mc Ren /
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Amon Tobin has been producing electronic music since the mid-'90s, and was a key figure in the rise of drum-and-bass. He's also written some of the genre's most compelling tracks, in the process delving into jazzy breakbeats and bass lines.
Anthony Fantano /
Compelling
Delving
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Electronic
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I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?
Joni Mitchell / Musician
Emotion
Handle
Needs
Sophistication
Tragedy
Chord
Complex
Europeans
Experiencing
Major
Jazzy
Minor
Seventh
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Ab-Souls Outro' serves as a jazzy, spoken summation of 'Section.80's themes. Guest cohort Ab-Soul opens the song with one urgent verse after another: Flowing freely like the saxophone behind him, his words advocate veering outside life's most predictable pathways.
Anthony Fantano /
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Saxophone
Urgent
Advocate
Flowing
Freely
Guest
Jazzy
Opens
Outside
Serve
Spoken
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I thought I was going to be a rapper as a kid and used to hop the train down to Jazzy Jeff's studio for, like, six months straight waiting outside of the studio for the big break, and one day we got in the studio and played our demo for Will and Jeff and quickly learned that we weren't that good.
Troy Carter /
Rapper
Big Break
Demo
Hop
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I look at old performers like James Brown: back in the day when you actually had to work hard to get poppin'. I look at all those types of performers. Even like Kid n' Play and the Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff and Salt-N-Pepa. That era where they had to perform. You couldn't just rap. It had to be an entire performance.
Kyle / Musician
Brown
Performers
Rap
Work Look Day
James
Jazzy
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