Goldlink

I'm not really a big Internet fan.

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I was a smart kid.

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I like back-stories to music.

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I'm very self-aware.

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I just simply rap about my life.

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I started rapping when I was 18-19.

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Making music is like school to me.

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I don't talk a lot.

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I just wear the uniform of the city I'm from.

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I won an ASCAP award two years in a row - that was sick.

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There's more to music than just words over tracks.

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When I write songs, I write from a lot of perspectives.

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I grew up with go-go music. We wasn't really hip-hop fans.

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I love meeting people, I love seeing faces.

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I always take D.C. with me. And I always come back home.

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More people should rap about reality.

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Looking back, I made my mistakes and I understand and learned from them.

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I'm going to make my own 'Trapped In The Closet' one day, about a black kid growing up in the hood.

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I tell stories about the people around me, I tell stories about me. I tell stories about my hood.

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I prefer owning something and partnering with other people, instead of like joining something.

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My biggest influence is my city. There's so much there. We have our own lingo, food, music and culture.

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If I'm everybody's hero from Canada all the way down to Australia, but I'm not able to come home? Then I failed.

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GoldLink is about my music and not so much about me. But it's cool that people are starting to notice who I…

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Believe it or not, at concerts some records go off more than 'Crew' does.

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I'm gonna find creative ways to connect with people that actually matter and exist. That's kinda like my goal, like, how can…

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I guess I'm kind of a sucker for the emotion of music. I guess it's kind of odd, but it's the way…

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When you see something that does work, whether you understand fashion or not, you can still make that difference and say, 'This…

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There wasn't any one particular moment where I realised, you know what, I'm going to be a musician. The decision more came…

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My mother was into church so she listens to gospel music. I like the way gospel is composed... the great vocalist chord…

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I think for men and women, there's a different dynamic when it comes to love. Because I feel like a man who…

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When I started soul-searching, I tapped into the old me and what I grew up around. I learned a lot about myself,…

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I always wanted to be different. If it was different I liked it. And it wasn't because I was just trying so…

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I guess rap has such a bad name, because everybody can do it now, and that's probably why people don't want to…

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I wasn't really actively trying to pursue music, so I was really just allowed to create freely without any pressure or outside…

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You know, I suffer kind of from survivor's guilt. It's like you suffer from success because you feel like - why me?…

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Sober Thoughts' is a song about an unhealthy relationship I was in with a girl, where we would continue to mistreat each…

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I create vibe-y dance music.

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Real love is unconditional.

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Love to me has no bounds.

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Mac Miller is my best friend in the industry.

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