Goldlink Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Goldlink Quotes. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!

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I knew that it’s typical for a black kid to say, ‘I’m just going to rap.’ I was like, ‘I’m going to rap, but I’m going to study, I’m going to figure out what this is and how to put it together.’
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I just wear the uniform of the city I’m from.
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When I write songs, I write from a lot of perspectives.
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If you believe that there is a God, then you know that God doesn’t show his face. He speaks to you, you feel him, but you’ve never seen him.
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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, and it really made me appreciate my upbringing.
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For me, music doesn’t have a color. ‘Teen Spirit’ is a fire song made by a white guy that me as a black person loves and can identify with.
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I never imagined myself being a rapper.
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In black culture, you know, we used to go swing dancing. We used to go out to go dance and actually have fun.
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Believe it or not, at concerts some records go off more than ‘Crew’ does.
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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 and the way they make you feel.
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I don’t talk a lot.
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You know, Slick Rick was tight at telling stories.
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I like being on my own, building on my own, and standing on my own.
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I’m very self-aware.
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Dark skin women are so beautiful and I feel like people forget. Real talk.
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Mac Miller is my best friend in the industry.
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Edgar Allan Poe is amazing because he was so dark. He’s from Baltimore and so cynical that you can feel it when you’re reading, it feels so honest.
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Beck’s ‘Hell Yes’ was the most game changing video ever.
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I prefer owning something and partnering with other people, instead of like joining something.
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Do you know what kills me? The cropped hats. The beanies that are rolled up past your ears, in the summer as well! There’s no function to it.
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I used to sing in a choir when I was young. My mom forced me hardbody. I was hella young, like 5 years old.
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Making music is like school to me.
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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 influences like, ‘Oh, I should be making this’ or ‘I should be collaborating with this person.’ It was just kind of like whatever I wanted to do. I was just having fun with it.
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Soundcloud is the best thing that ever happened to me honestly.
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At What Cost’ means so many things: go-gos were shut down for our good, but at what cost?
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I just see potential in things that aren’t there and how it’s going to make you feel. Like, if it makes me feel a certain way, I try and create the vibe of how that felt to me. And try and create it for someone else.
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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 other, to spite each other. We were bad for each other, yet we always came back together, because we thought we ‘loved each other.’ It was a young love, not a forever love.
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I create vibe-y dance music.
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I just love home. I just attached to it since I grew up there my entire life.
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Black History in 2019 and beyond is all about inclusivity.
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As cliche as that sounds, Maya Angelou is one of the best writers I’ve ever read. She’s very wise and to the point.
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Real love is unconditional.
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I could rap really good on accident. I talk tight and it just sounded… I don’t know. It’s just such a big genre for me. At the end of the day, rap is the language of the world.
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I grew up with bubble-gum rap. Seriously, in 2003, 2004, it was Chingy ‘Right Thurr.’
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I’m not really a big Internet fan.
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I always take D.C. with me. And I always come back home.
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I love meeting people, I love seeing faces.
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I was taught that poems don’t end, they just kind of stop. There’s never an ending to a poem; it’s a continuation for later. When I write, I write for me, and I write in poetic form.
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Outwardly seeing how your music effects culture and everyday life, is amazing.
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I feel like the D.C. streets just love Gucci Mane. He’s like a hood pastor.
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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 we creatively do things in a different way so that we can actually get people and talk to them?
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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 I appreciate music. I present my stuff that way as well.
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I was a smart kid.
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The thing is, Mac Miller wrote all of ‘Divine Feminine.’ That was a great album.
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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 just like a beat that grabs me. And then I’ll come up with a concept after. I like to take my time with music.
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I’m real sexy and I make sexy music so I’m going to be Prince meets Nelson Mandela.
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It’s the bounce in go-go that inspires me.
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I grew up with go-go music. We wasn’t really hip-hop fans.
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There’s more to music than just words over tracks.
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Balance is good. You should always have balance… you need it to survive.
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I’m very complex and complicated. I like a lot, a lot.
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Without Mac Miller, there would be no GoldLink.
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With ‘Opening Credit,’ we were trying to establish a certain tone and put people in a specific mood.
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I won an ASCAP award two years in a row – that was sick.
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I just wanna make more music, legit music as opposed to keeping the same constant thing. I wanna show growth in the music, pretty much.
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I really don’t want to be a stereotype.
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There’s nothing wrong with being a hippie.
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If I’m too cocky or too arrogant, it’s like, ‘Ugh.’ But if you’re too on the other side, you take away some of those other emotional aspects, and I just kinda like to have a balance.
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The only important things are family and love.
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When I was in senior year of high school, my mom lost her job, we lost our house, and we had to move in with my uncle and my aunt.
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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 read slowly, I watch movies slowly, because I retain everything.
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Black women, dark skin women are the original beautiful people to me.
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One of my friends is serving 33 years. Armed robbery. Those are the things you should rap about. I don’t think you should glorify it at all. I don’t really glorify it. I just talk about it. There’s nothing special about that life.
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I started rapping when I was 18-19.
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We’re all people at the end of the day.
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In order for me to sell D.C., I have to have people understand us.
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I’m from the DMV. I grew up in Maryland my whole life and I was born in Washington D.C.
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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 falls in love with a woman falls harder than a woman falling for a man. We’re not emotionally as accepting as women are.
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