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#3. I connect to SpongeBob in a way; like, that's the homie. He can chill on the corner with me.
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#4. Brooklyn, where I grew up, is a competitive burg - there's always a pretty boy around the corner there, and you gotta look better than him.
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#6. I can't wait until I touch the stage, I'm going to catch the spirit and lose my mind.
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#12. I didn't grow up drawing runway models and deciding what they should wear.
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#13. On my early trips to London and Paris, in 2009, I started to shift to more wide-brimmed felt hats similar to Borsalinos and Stetsons.
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#14. 'Billie Jean' was a negative dance song, and that was one of the best dance songs ever.
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#15. Colby Jordan is one of the most fashion-forward and passionate girls I know. She gives me these young Anna Wintour vibes when I'm around her!
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#16. I like to keep a uniform - wear a blazer, try to keep the same colour pants; very tailored, very fitted but still edgy.
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#17. I'm pretty brand-less. If I wear a brand, then you can't tell. I'm not about the logos.
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#19. I'm listening to early Cash Money, I'm listening to Juvenile, I'm listening to Waka Flocka, I'm listening to Lil B, I'm listening to Brandy, Kanye - that's my home playlist.
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#20. I want to wear something that's not perfectly matching; there has to be something unorthodox about it. I want to create this mystery.
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#22. I collect different game hats, like Syracuse Women's Volleyball; I have a Navy Basketball hat. They're all vintage but in new condition.
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#23. Brooklyn for twenty years, I've learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.
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#24. I can't really change for a climate. I've got to be Theophilus London in any weather.
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#25. What I sell is the higher knowledge of knowing what's next and not following the trend of what's now.
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#29. I can pull off anything; I have the height and the attitude. The only thing I can't wear is a leotard, but I can wear anything else.
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#31. Let's see: I'm into a whole bunch of different people - Alexander Wang ... that's my dude.
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#32. Twitter is essential to me because I wake up and check it religiously. It's a way I communicate with my fan base.
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#34. Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer - Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson.
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#35. I am international. When I put out my second mixtape, we did four tours and a tour overseas.
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#36. You want everything to go right. You've just got to let yourself be free and have good energy.
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#37. I am more into guys' fashion, but I'm inspired by women's fashion in a weird way.
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#39. If I walk into a store, I'm going to buy the best jacket or the best item in the store, hands down.
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#40. I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.
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#41. I have a few friends that have inspired me since I was a young kid. When I watch old films or modern movies - particularly 'Gladiator,' 'New Jack City' and 'The Skin I Live In' - I'll also get ideas.
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#42. I wore my same look for six years. My hat and glasses - people recognize me now.
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#43. I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. There's a lot of cool stuff in there ... all the heartbreak of the country darkness.
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#44. Style is a form of expression! It's what makes your character your character, to put it in laymen's term.
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#45. I hate writing texts to girlfriends because you can't really see emotions in texts. You can get confused on what she says.
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#46. Becoming a walking, dancing, fire-breathing lifestyle dragon is not something you can pursue overnight! It takes years of studying, living, and understanding the modern culture!
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#47. I own over ninety-five different hats and, over the years, have lost or given away 120 hats. You gain to lose ... you lose to gain.
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#49. A lot of young kids like myself use Instagram because it has swag - it's more personal, and your friends generate it.
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#50. The second album is the hardest to write. It's nothing like the first album.
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#51. I started getting emails from Anna Wintour inviting me to her dinners. It was just surreal.
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#53. I remember in the fifth grade my dad would take me to Manhattan to shop for clothes.
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#55. My signature style is super uniformed. I like black pants, black blazers, and boots.
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#56. Brands are in your face 24/7; I'm sure you've consumed a couple brands today. So it's fun working with them. People recognize brands, and people are starting to recognize my brand.
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#57. My favorite brand I have ever artistically collaborated, entertained, and supported over the years is the huge house that Coco Chanel built: Chanel.
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#58. I believe your atmosphere and your surroundings create a mind state for you.
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#60. I like to revamp things; like, I make to make things better in my eye, but I don't put out own lines ... I just collab with my favorite brands.
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#61. Whatever I receive from a higher power gets me pumped, which gets the crowd pumped, which gets me more pumped, and then we're just pumped up.
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#62. Gold looks good on my skin, and gold looks good on black people, I think.
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#63. I have a personal barber, Mister C. He lives in Brooklyn, but he travels with me. He used to cut Lady Gaga's hair, but he fired her to work for me.
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#64. I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to see if it's worth going! I have a secret movie critic blog I have shown no one or promoted, and I intend to keep it that way.
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#65. I've made sure to always update my web properties constantly - Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, my Hypebeast blog ... making sure I divided content across all of them to keep each outlet fresh to keep people coming back.
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#66. Hip-hop is like underground. I don't know if hip-hop exists anymore. I don't know if it does.
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#68. Just because 50,000 people on the Internet know me, I'm not patting myself on the back at the end of the night.
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#69. Thirty-five percent of all my dates were at the movies from 2013 to 2014.
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#71. I think it's more interesting to play a place where no one really knows you, but I think touring is also great.
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#72. I focus a lot on my voice because I want it to be an instrument as well. I want my voice to add color.
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#73. When I say 'rare,' it's my own term. It's like you're doing something with a photo that is dominant that no one has ever seen before. #Rare means that it can only be seen here. It's just a rare moment that I'm sharing with the world.
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#74. Creating the album 'VIBES' has been the biggest life lesson I have ever learned.
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#75. I went to school for marketing for one year before I dropped out of college to make music.
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#76. I'm trying to fuse popular and commercial music and just make very creative music. It's popular music: it's everything for everybody.
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#77. The first time I really listened to an album and thought, 'This album is mine,' was Kanye's 'Late Registration.'
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#78. A lot of my friends inspire my style, and they don't even know it.
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#79. I always imagined how cool it would be to be the face of a Gap campaign!
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#80. Europe were kind of the first ones to embrace my music; the kids from around the way would come out to my shows and really enjoy it.
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#81. I moved my studio to Palm Springs 'cause I don't like the idea of going to a studio every day like a job ... I need to make a personal record, so I need to be in a house ... I don't want to be in a studio where people can hear the music 'cause I don't know what it is yet.
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#83. As snap-backs became more popular, I started to search and expand my hat game.
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#85. I never go black tie. I never grew up wearing ties or bow ties or anything.
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#86. I'm not really good at skiing or snowboarding, or swimming, per se.
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#87. I like to go to the airport looking stylish - you never know who you'll run into. Sometimes I have fans at the airports. I never want to be bummy looking.
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#88. I need to travel, of course, with my laptop, so I can do my business on the road.
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#89. When you're a kid, you're only exposed to what's going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.
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#90. I always tell myself, 'When I'm working on my record, I won't cut my hair.' I get so focused on the music that I'm not really going to the hair shop and getting cut up. I just have one thing to focus on.
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#94. My mind moves very fast. I go through a lot of moods and emotions.
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#95. People are always looking at their phones and computer. It's the first place people turn in the morning and where everyone's keeping in touch and getting their news.
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#96. I love to hear a cool ambient sound at runway shows. It creates a good energy.
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#100. The Gap has always been an iconic, go-to brand that reminds me of my childhood.
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