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Jidenna
Jidenna
American Musician
Born: May 4, 1985
Father Me People Think World You
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A great tailor is like a great personal trainer - they tailor that suit to your natural physique. Jidenna
Great Natural Tailor Physique Like Trainer Personal Personal Trainer Your Suit
Jesus' birthday is commercialized, so of course, Black History Month is commercialized. Jidenna
Birthday History Black Month Black History Course Jesus
Everything you touch touches you. Jidenna
You Everything Touch
I don't have one geographic location that I'm exclusively loyal to. Jidenna
Location Geographic Loyal
I was born in Wisconsin, but I quickly moved to Nigeria as a toddler. Jidenna
Born Wisconsin Quickly Moved Toddler Nigeria
Every single place that's brushed upon me has made me the artist that I am - from Nigerian Highlife music and the vocal melodies that I grew up on when I would be sitting with my father and his fellow chiefs, to the funk and freeness of the Bay Area groove, to L.A.'s smooth G-funk legacy, Brooklyn's lyricism, and now Atlanta's trap history. Jidenna
Music Me History Father Made Single Every Melodies Bay Bay Area Would Would-Be Brooklyn Atlanta Vocal Area Fellow Smooth Am His Up Legacy Chiefs Sitting Artist Grew Place Groove Trap Now Nigerian Funk
Swanky means classy and funky. Jidenna
Classy Means Funky
When hip-hop came along, men and women started dressing down as a form of rebellion. Jidenna
Women Rebellion Men Men And Women Down Dressing Along Hip-Hop Came Form Started
I reached rock bottom halfway through college. And it was - because of all the pressure that I think we're talking about right now - the pressure to learn how to budget, the pressure to really abandon everything that you ever learned. You don't have a comfort zone anymore. You don't have your neighborhood. You don't have your family with you. Jidenna
Family You Pressure College Think Everything Neighborhood Abandon About Through Bottom Budget Reached Learn Comfort Learned Halfway Talking Comfort Zone Because Rock How Anymore Really Your Now Ever Right Zone
My father raised me to build computers, hardware. Literally, as an 8 year old, I had a soldering iron and circuit boards, and this was in neighbourhoods that wouldn't have a whole lot of money or anything. And I figured out ways to just hustle. Jidenna
Me Money Old Father Build Year Circuit Ways Out Hustle Computers Had Year-Old Lot Iron Just Literally Anything Boards Figured Whole Hardware Raised
I thought the suit was something that would suit me. Jidenna
Me Thought Would Something Suit
While the majority of my childhood memories are beautiful, I also have experienced the challenges that Nigeria has faced since independence. Jidenna
Beautiful Memories Challenges Independence Faced Since Also Majority Childhood Childhood Memories Experienced While Nigeria
Most of the suits I try to wear are bespoke. Jidenna
Suits Try Wear Most
You love who you love. I happen to just love a lot of women. Jidenna
Love You Women Lot Just Happen Who
I think each artist lives with purpose. A strong sense of purpose. We know who's come before us. Jidenna
Strong Before Sense Think Strong Sense Purpose Come Know Artist Us Each Lives
People thought 'Classic Man' was processed. But then they realized, 'Oh, this guy actually is that man, and he actually dresses like that.' Jidenna
Man People Thought Classic Dresses Guy He Like Oh Processed Realized Then Actually
I was raised in Nigeria, and my mother is white, but I never saw her as white, not until I came to America. She was just my mother. She didn't really have a color. Jidenna
Mother White Saw Color Never Until She Came America Just Really Her Nigeria Raised
I've gone down several paths. I started school as an engineer, but underneath it all, I knew I wanted to use instruments, not build them. Jidenna
School Engineer Build Gone Down Several Knew Instruments Underneath Paths Wanted Them Use Started
Like most people, I had several awakenings. Jidenna
People Several Had Like Most
When I originally came to the U.S., my mother came with a couple hundred dollars to her name. I didn't know we were struggling because she hid that from me. But it was definitely a struggle to get through life and get through school. Jidenna
Life Me Struggle School Mother Hundred Hid Definitely Struggling Through Name Know Couple She Because Came Were Dollars Get Originally Her
I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, 'Uh-uh, you can't make money from music. You have to be a doctor, a lawyer, engineer. Something that's going to do something for this world. Music doesn't do anything.' And I had to fight that, his passion, and fight the society that I was from. Jidenna
Music Me You Fight Doctor World Money Passion Listening Engineer Thought Lawyer Society Everything Something Had Nobody Like Make His Going Anything Dad World Music
If we can believe in our own value, then we won't try to denigrate and diss and just roast women all the time. Jidenna
Time Women Try Value Own Believe Our Roast Denigrate Just Then
The most important thing for me is the thing I strive for. But I also hope when I play my songs for people - adult, children, mostly children - that they feel mighty, they feel noble, they feel like warriors. And they feel like they can do anything in the world because that's how I feel. Jidenna
Hope Me People World Important Strive Adult Songs Noble Feel Like Most Also Most Important Thing Mostly Because How Important Thing The Most Important Children Anything Mighty Warriors Play Thing
I began my studies in a sound and electrical engineering program, but I ultimately created a major called 'Ritual Art.' Jidenna
Art Engineering Ritual Studies Major Sound Ultimately Began Created Electrical Program
I like quality over quantity. Jidenna
Quality Over Like Quantity
In Brooklyn, all the kids call me the 'Willy Wonka of the Hood.' Jidenna
Me Hood Kids Brooklyn Call
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