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Portrait of Hoodie Allen

Hoodie Allen

(1988) Musician United States

42 quotes in 244 categories

Hoodie Allen’s verses bounce between sharp humor and earnest reflection. This collection of 42 quotes captures his knack for turning everyday moments into lyrical snapshots that feel both fresh and relatable.

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Hoodie Allen is a musician from the United States.

Quick Facts About Hoodie Allen

Born: August 19, 1988
Nationality: United States
Profession: Musician

About Hoodie Allen

Steven Adam Markowitz, known professionally as Hoodie Allen, is an American rapper from Plainview, New York. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, he began working at Google before ultimately quitting to pursue a full-time career in hip-hop.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Hoodie Allen

Bloggers are people too you rappers!

Bloggers

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Its important to follow your dreams whatever that may be.

Dream

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I'm a Jewish kid who grew up loving hip hop in NY.

Grew

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I am a musician, a songwriter, music fan. I live in New York City and I love my job.

Cities

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It's easy to choose doing what you love when there are people out there supporting you.

Doing what you love

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My biggest regret is probably that it took me so long to find out what I want to do.

Long

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Rap is my most used medium but I don't think I approach music like a rapper would.

Approach

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I try not to listen to a lot of music when I'm starting the recording process, because it can be so subtly…

Influential

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It's okay to say you've got a weak spot. You don't always have to be on top. It's better to be hated,…

Being imperfect

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I guess this is cliche, but I'd love to work with Kanye West, Mark Ronson, Diplo.

Cliche

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Treat every person you interact with, with the same sort of attention and respect which you hope they will give to you.

Attention

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I really embrace things that I think people who like music can relate to, they grew up with the same stuff and…

Embrace

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I think my music is born out of the music that I personally like to listen to. I love amazing singer-songwriters and…

Art

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I've been writing songs and making music since I was probably ten years old...so my inspirations back then, I don't know -…

And love

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People don't realize that there's no label and everything is self-financed and we make do and do our own thing. I was…

Firsts

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I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip…

Friendship

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Hoodie was just a nickname I had growing up and I just wanted to have a name that would stick in peoples'…

Bits

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I like to write from my life and the relationships that make it up. I think its important to use music to…

Important

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It's unfair of me to tell anyone what to think. I make myself for myself to get out my own desire to…

Desire

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All songs have those X factors. I couldn't even explain or describe what will grab me about them but it's all music…

Crazy

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I think the craziest thing I've seen is probably a fan sleeping overnight for two nights before a show, which was probably…

Bits

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I get to focus on something I love to do 24-hours a day rather than trying to squeeze it in between midterms,…

Differences

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I've basically been able to do everything, I basically run my own career and the decisions I make - whether it's how…

Able

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I'm treating every day as a special one and trying to live in the moment.

Every day

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My eclectic taste allows me to do something unique and not box myself in.

Boxes

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Money isnt what drives me, getting fans who truly understand what I'm about and want to see me live is where my…

Fans

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I've kind of shut myself off to a lot of new music because I don't want to be influenced by it.

Influenced

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I am really obsessed with finding melodies that just hypnotize you and sink you into a song.

Findings

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I never want a fan to come and hear what they hear on their iPod, its about creating a unqiue and awesome…

Creating

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My fans are the only people who will be with me forever, all else comes and goes.

Comes and goes

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I am very lucky to have people who care about me and care about my music. I think it would be irresponsible…

Care

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I'll say this: Google is the best 9-5 anyone could ever get. Awesome environment, I loved my time there, but I grew…

Dream

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I feel like I have a very unique perspective especially for someone in the hip-hop genre. I'm not afraid to explore it,…

Feels

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It's always really cool when you get to play with someone who you like and they go out of their way to…

Being awesome

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I love having fans of all ages but it's especially cool for me to have young fans. I hope to be a…

Age

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In terms of everything, I'm happy and stand behind my video. If you can't tell we had a lot of fun doing…

Behinds

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The cool thing about college tours is you make friends with a lot of other artists because the schools come in and…

Artist

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I do all of marketing and promotion - it's the most exhaustive and rewarding part of the process and I wouldn't trade…

Art

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There're always some notorious people in the crew who are doing crazy things, but I try to keep it a little more…

Crazy

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I'm only concerned with making music that I love and that my fans will respond to. I am happy to see other…

Able

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Music (17) Thinking (9) People (9)