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“I want to encourage Filipino artists to be original, write your own songs and don't be afraid to go outside the box and try new things.”
“Until I discovered hip-hop, I felt I wasn't going to accomplish anything.”
“I wanted to be an engineer or a nurse.”
“Usually when you hear about rappers in Asia, they always try to be like gangsters and stuff like that and I don't get it.”
“Back then we were young, we would just mash all forms of music together and come up with something.”
“I was just a kid. I had nothing to my name but I was still happy. But I was also given a chance to pursue my dreams, have an education.”
“DJing is one of my hobbies.”
“Hip-hop is just bombarded with a lot of materialistic stuff. When a group like us with more creativity comes out, I think it will make some kind of change.”
“There's no reason but luck that I'm in one of the biggest bands in music.”
“When you have an education, you can make anything happen.”
“I came to the U.S. to have opportunities. I saw a lot of people in gangs. I just didn't understand that - you live in the U.S., you have all these opportunities. And then you get in a gang?”
“In every Filipino family, the children always want to help the parents... that was my goal.”
“Mentoring artists is something I love.”
“I hated sunsets for a long time.”
“It was already hard enough growing up in the Philippines but imagine being blind, that's 10 times harder.”
“Growing up for me in the Philippines was hard to read comic books because I'm blind.”
“Everybody wanted to be Michael Jackson. That's how Will and I got to know each other.”
“We want to show people in the U.S. and Europe that hey, here in Southeast Asia, we have so much artists brimming with talent and so deserving. We needed to tap into that so that the West can take notice and sign them up, too.”
“I remember I told my mom that I was scared. I asked her, how will I talk to everyone in English? And my mom gave me a dictionary, where I learned one day at a time.”