I write songs. I perform. I play the guitar. I play the keyboard. — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
I was raised on African music, Harry Belafonte, and the Boston Pops. Then I got a dose of soul and hip-hop. I… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
Live performance is everything. First of all, I have terrible stage fright. But beyond that, once the music starts, it's OK. — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
The idea of 'raw' music, to me, is honesty: getting people to feel you with the least amount of production possible, the… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
There came a point where I did give up on music, but I'm the kind of person that when I face obstacles,… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
I love the power of music and artistry and feel a responsibility having a platform to preach good things. — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
'Fantastic' is self-explanatory, you know? And the 'Negrito' is a way to open up blackness to everyone - you know, make it… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
I wanted to do life, do something interesting. I ran out of things I wanted to say in my music, so I… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
I had a dream, as young people have quite idealistic dreams and goals, of, 'I'm going to go to Los Angeles, and… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
When I was a youngster, I wrote all this music - it just came out of me - and I think record… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
I became Fantastic Negrito, and I felt like there was a rawness and an honesty in that music that I could relate… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
I take the purest and hardest forms of music... and come in completely fresh from a production standpoint. It's like hip-hop production,… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
Nothing unifies people more than music, more than that universal riff. The one thing that unifies us and the hope that we… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
What I decided was I'd be happier not being in the confines of a corporate infrastructure producing music. That's when I was… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
I could have worked with great people like Nile Rodgers, which I regret. I don't have many regrets, but I remember he'd shown some… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
I usually go to secondhand stores and find what I can. I like finding interesting things: vests, blazers. I tell the band, 'We got… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
I want to make other people around me smarter and more powerful. — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
Ain't nobody more punk rock than Robert Johnson, Lead Belly, even Little Richard. — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
Nothing unifies people more than music, more than that universal riff. The one thing that unifies us and the hope that we can have,… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
We should not fear what is new, but we should not throw out that which is in the past but is still valuable. — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
I wanted to do life, do something interesting. I ran out of things I wanted to say in my music, so I just put… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
There's certain artists that are meant to have certain paths and go the way of the corporate world. And then there are artists who… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
I think things happen, and we have no control over them, and what you take from them is really what is important. — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
'Push back' is the word; that's what we gotta do against ignorance. I see so much of it, and it's dangerous. — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
There came a point where I did give up on music, but I'm the kind of person that when I face obstacles, I become… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
