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" When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff. "

Rap , Kind

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" It's a good feeling to have something to stand for in any part of your life. It's like personal integrity. "

Integrity , Feelings , Personal

" The essential component of being a DJ is setting the mood; it's playing to the context. So that if you're not able to adapt from one context to another, then you're not a DJ. "

Essentials , Mood , context

" A few guys will get up there with turntables as purists, to play vinyl or whatever. "

Play

" There's a ton of amazing music that's not getting heard. "

Amazing , Music , Heard

" It's always important to me to play something other DJs aren't playing. "

Play , Important , Djs

" I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren't necessarily trying to hear that all the time. "

People , Kids , Hip

" What's amazing about a DJ set is when you're able to re-appropriate a song or give purpose to a song that people didn't really think it was supposed to have. Give it this sort of hidden power by playing it before this song and after that one. That it fits into this logic and it goes farther than you thought it could go. "

People , Thinking , Song

" I love disco and we sample it a lot for Duck Sauce. For me, that sound is kind of a new manifestation. "

Sound

" There's a lot of producers that are much more technical or gear-skilled than I am. But I have a pure idea of what I like and where I want to go and I follow that. "

Want , Ideas

" That's what a DJ is at the end of the day - someone who leads where the music goes. The only thing that's changed is that in America, people have woken up in the last few years and realized it. "

People , America , Years

" I'm still a hip-hop producer. I never put a label on what I can do as a producer or a DJ. "

Hip , Labels

" I'm one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I'm the only DJ that's scratching. "

Use , Djs

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