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Adrian Younge
American
Musician
Born:
1978
Because
Love
Me
Music
People
You
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As a freelance artist, you have to please somebody instead of just making music. But when the employer trusts and leans on you to determine what is right for a scene or feeling, that's ideal.
Adrian Younge
Music
You
Somebody
Feeling
Freelance
Please
Determine
Scene
Instead
Ideal
Employer
Making
Trusts
Artist
Just
Right
Basically, if you work hard and practice an instrument every day, you'll learn how to play like a professional. You'll get better and better each day. And that's how it works for me. I wasn't magically inclined to play. I had to keep practicing and practicing to train my fingers.
Adrian Younge
Work
Day
Me
You
Every Day
Work Hard
Better
Practice
Every
Fingers
Had
Like
Instrument
Learn
Practicing
How
Train
Get
Hard
Professional
Works
Inclined
Each
Each Day
Keep
Play
Basically
Generally, as a composer, it's perceived as an employer-employee relationship.
Adrian Younge
Relationship
Composer
Perceived
Generally
We love high-end art, but when you're looking at high-end art in music, a lot of the time, it's appreciated academically, but you can't feel it as much.
Adrian Younge
Love
Music
Art
Time
You
Looking
High-End
Feel
Academically
Lot
Much
Appreciated
I can't do too much musical movement with a lot of MC's, because they don't know how to follow me. But with Souls of Mischief, I could go anywhere because they are musicians - they rap as musicians, and they play instruments and produce, so they get that.
Adrian Younge
Me
Musicians
Too Much
Too
Musical
Rap
Follow
Mischief
Could
Know
Instruments
Because
Souls
How
Go
Lot
Get
Movement
Anywhere
Produce
Much
Play
I always compare myself to what I did last, so I've got to try and beat what I did last. I'm always upping my own bar.
Adrian Younge
Myself
Try
Own
My Own
Beat
Always
Got
Did
Bar
Compare
Last
Having Ghost and Raekwon together on multiple tracks is almost like cheating because they fit so well together. Their chemistry is undeniable, and they clearly make each other better.
Adrian Younge
Together
Better
Cheating
Chemistry
Other
Ghost
Having
Almost
Undeniable
Clearly
Like
Well
Make
Tracks
Because
Fit
Multiple
Each
Luke Cage is seen in 'Jessica Jones,' but he doesn't really come into his own until the 'Luke Cage' series. That's when you really see who he is.
Adrian Younge
You
Seen
Own
See
He
Cage
Come
Until
His
Really
Who
Series
Luke
Jessica
I'm a hip hop dude who loves scoring for film.
Adrian Younge
Hop
Hip
Hip-Hop
Dude
Scoring
Loves
Who
Film
I always say to people that I left hip-hop in '97, meaning that I departed from listening to predominately hip-hop and just started really getting into records from the late '60s, early '70s. And once I made that change, I realized how much great music was made back in the day, and it started to become apparent how much we've lost in music.
Adrian Younge
Music
Day
Great
Change
People
Listening
Made
Become
Lost
Late
Back
Once
Say
Great Music
Records
Always
How
Hip-Hop
How Much
Left
Departed
Getting
Just
Meaning
Realized
Much
Really
Apparent
Early
Started
'Luke Cage' came out in 1972 at the height of the blaxploitation era. It was a literary response to this notion of blaxploitation movies. It was the first time in American culture that Hollywood was embracing black movies.
Adrian Younge
Time
Culture
Black
First
Out
Response
Embracing
Cage
First Time
Era
Came
American
American Culture
Literary
Movies
Hollywood
Height
Notion
Luke
I was really raised on hip-hop, and hip-hop introduced me basically to all the music I listen to now.
Adrian Younge
Music
Me
Introduced
Hip-Hop
Listen
Really
Now
Raised
Basically
To me, the Ennio Morricone kind of sound is a derivative of soul music.
Adrian Younge
Music
Me
Soul
Kind
Soul Music
Sound
Derivative
I'm the black dude that loves old black culture. I also love old white culture. I just love history, but I'm the guy that wants to bring things back and push them forward.
Adrian Younge
Love
History
Culture
Old
Black
White
Back
Guy
Push
Also
Dude
Just
Wants
Loves
Them
Forward
Things
Bring
I love the song 'Picasso Baby,' and I think the performance art piece was brilliant. I love that fact that Jay Z is continuing to raise the bar on hip hop.
Adrian Younge
Love
Art
Song
Brilliant
Think
Baby
Hop
Fact
Picasso
Performance
Performance Art
Piece
Hip
Hip-Hop
Continuing
Bar
Jay
Jay-Z
Raise
I have a J.D., but I'm not a practicing attorney as far as entertainment law goes.
Adrian Younge
Entertainment
Law
Attorney
Practicing
Goes
As Far As
Far
I love sampling, and RZA loves sampling, too.
Adrian Younge
Love
Too
Sampling
Loves
As me being somebody that makes arguably nostalgic music, I cannot stand when somebody tries to make old music just to sound old.
Adrian Younge
Music
Me
Old
Somebody
Tries
Arguably
Make
Makes
Sound
Just
Being
Nostalgic
Cannot
Old Music
Stand
When people make the educated argument that things should go back, it's more like going back to a feeling they had when they heard some of the music that came out. Not going back to that music being rehashed. That's stupid.
Adrian Younge
Music
People
Argument
Feeling
Stupid
Back
Out
Some
More
Had
Like
Make
Educated
Came
Go
Heard
Going
Being
Should
Things
When you're recording live, really good vintage instruments onto two-inch tape, it's the best fidelity you can get.
Adrian Younge
Best
Good
You
Recording
Live
Onto
Instruments
Tape
Get
Fidelity
Really
Vintage
The ramifications that you set for yourself can inspire you to do things that you would have never thought of because, once you're trapped, your job is to persevere.
Adrian Younge
You
Yourself
Inspire
Job
Thought
Trapped
Ramifications
Once
Would
Never
Because
Persevere
Your
Things
Set
I love how music can create an audiovisual experience. To me, some of the best music is the music that does that.
Adrian Younge
Love
Music
Best
Me
Experience
Some
Does
How
Create
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