Fantastic Negrito

I try to be as positive a person as possible.

— Fantastic Negrito

I could have worked with great people like Nile Rodgers, which I regret. I don't have many regrets, but I remember he'd…

— Fantastic Negrito

I usually go to secondhand stores and find what I can. I like finding interesting things: vests, blazers. I tell the band,…

— Fantastic Negrito

I want to make other people around me smarter and more powerful.

— Fantastic Negrito

Ain't nobody more punk rock than Robert Johnson, Lead Belly, even Little Richard.

— Fantastic Negrito

Nothing unifies people more than music, more than that universal riff. The one thing that unifies us and the hope that we…

— Fantastic Negrito

We should not fear what is new, but we should not throw out that which is in the past but is still…

— Fantastic Negrito

I wanted to do life, do something interesting. I ran out of things I wanted to say in my music, so I…

— Fantastic Negrito

There's certain artists that are meant to have certain paths and go the way of the corporate world. And then there are…

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I think things happen, and we have no control over them, and what you take from them is really what is important.

— Fantastic Negrito

'Push back' is the word; that's what we gotta do against ignorance. I see so much of it, and it's dangerous.

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There came a point where I did give up on music, but I'm the kind of person that when I face obstacles,…

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As long as we have have predatory capitalism, we'll have guns because the gun industry loves to make money out of guns.

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I love the power of music and artistry and feel a responsibility having a platform to preach good things.

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Fantastic Negrito is a persona, an incarnation in my third phase.

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I was raised on African music, Harry Belafonte, and the Boston Pops. Then I got a dose of soul and hip-hop. I…

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Exercise is good for you, so I'm always walking. I don't drink sodas or eat fast food, either.

— Fantastic Negrito

'The Duffler' is a very familiar story, a story about someone having something and not appreciating it until it's gone, when it's…

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I became Fantastic Negrito, and I felt like there was a rawness and an honesty in that music that I could relate…

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Your dream can die. You will probably give up. But from there, you can start everything over.

— Fantastic Negrito

I take the purest and hardest forms of music... and come in completely fresh from a production standpoint. It's like hip-hop production,…

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I came up with the album name 'Please Don't Be Dead' because I felt like we'd lost our way as a society…

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What I decided was I'd be happier not being in the confines of a corporate infrastructure producing music. That's when I was…

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That's always the time to quit - when you have nothing to say as an artist and creative person.

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I'm in a collective with the same guys I met on the streets at 12. The greatest investments I ever made were…

— Fantastic Negrito