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Diplo

(1978) Record Producer United States

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Diplo is a record producer from the United States, best known for Little Dinosaurs, Big Feelings.

Quick Facts About Diplo

Born: November 10, 1978
Nationality: United States
Profession: Record Producer
Notable works: Little Dinosaurs, Big Feelings

About Diplo

Thomas Wesley "Wes" Pentz Jr., known professionally as Diplo, is an American DJ and record producer. He gained recognition in 2008 with his single "Blow Your Head". He is a co-creator and lead member of the electronic dancehall music project Major Lazer; a member of the supergroup LSD, with Labrinth and Sia; a member of electronic duo Jack Ü, with producer and DJ Skrillex; and a member of Silk City, with Mark Ronson. He founded the record company Mad Decent in 2006 and the nonprofit organization Heaps Decent in 2007. His 2013 extended play (EP) Revolution debuted at number 68 on the US Billboard 200. Its title track was later featured in a Hyundai commercial and appears on the WWE 2K16 soundtrack.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Recording Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Album

Quotes by Diplo

New York is so serious about the creation of work. Everything is happening so fast, it feels like there's another studio, another…

About

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That's what I care about is the people I work with and representing them and helping to make their music apparent for…

About

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Gucci is a rapper that doesn't try and be anything he's not - he's straight up. Yeah, maybe it's ironic and all,…

Anything

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If kids can have some sort of social responsibility, that's cool. But if they're not actually having social responsibility, and they're kind…

Actually

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It sucks for me, because now I have to not be as crazy as I am on the Internet. Which totally sucks,…

Bizarre

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I've probably got the most eclectic social media there is because it literally goes from hanging out with my son at a…

Africa

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To me, rap music is bigger than who's the coolest rapper, the biggest rapper. It's everything about your personality.

About

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I just love to collaborate with people who take my ideas real serious, and they don't put up walls around them.

Around

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I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because…

Because

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If anybody is excited about my music, that's all I care about. I care about people who are excited about new music.

About

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Man, I don't got any real fans. Just fair-weather ones and groupies.

Any

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I'm trying to always do new things because if you stay behind and fight the future, you are just going to be…

Always

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Money, for me, is just to create bigger and better things. A lot of guys in the deejaying world flaunt it, but…

Any

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I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music.

Else

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New York feels like the whole city is into dance music. That's not how it felt when I was younger. There was…

City

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I never became a producer to go to parties or wear nice clothes or put sales figures on my Wiki page.

Became

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I was making crappy beats since I was, like, 17 or 18, using Florida rappers, where I'm from. Then I started DJ'ing…

Beats

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Dance music is so interchangeable. There's not a lot of face to it. It's a bunch of Dutch DJs with the same…

Bunch

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There are opportunities that I have because I'm a white dude, and it's controversial because that's just the way that the world…

Because

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Man, the only thing that's important is what is due tomorrow. I don't care what it is as long as it's good.

Care

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I do a lot of collaborations and productions, whether it's Switch or Steve Aoki or No ID or Will Smith or No…

Always

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I think one of the reasons I've been successful is that I can see things before other people do. I've always been…

Able

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Sometimes I make more money in a weekend than my grandpa made in a year.

Grandpa

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I see the value in every kind of music, even country.

Country

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I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I moved to…

Alabama

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