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At one point, I had more friends on the Internet than I did in real life.
Rich Brian
Life
Internet
Real Life
More
Point
Had
Real
Friends
Than
Did
When I say 'homeschooled,' I was homeschooled for, like, two years, and then we just stopped. It was me and my parents, and they'd give me homework and stuff like that, but then one day, they just stopped.
Rich Brian
Day
Me
Parents
Homework
Say
One Day
Give
Give Me
Stuff
Like
Years
Just
Stopped
Then
Two
Being home-schooled, you really get to explore your hobbies, what you want to do for a living.
Rich Brian
You
Living
Get
Hobbies
Being
Want
Really
Explore
Your
I feel like, with an album, that's how you get to know an artist.
Rich Brian
You
Feel
Like
Know
How
Get
Artist
Album
I was, like, 12 or 13; the first hip hop song I tried to rapping to was Macklemore's 'Thrift Shop,' and my English was so bad, but learning to rap to different songs really helped me with my pronunciation, and looking at the lyrics on Rap Genius and stuff like that.
Rich Brian
Me
Learning
Song
Genius
First
Looking
Lyrics
Rap
Hop
Bad
Tried
Rapping
Thrift
Songs
Stuff
Like
Hip
Hip-Hop
Shop
Different
Really
English
Helped
I feel like kids naturally love guns, so I was drawn to that.
Rich Brian
Love
Kids
Drawn
Guns
Feel
Like
Naturally
It's important for kids to see someone who looks like them carving his own path. I definitely acknowledge that, and I think it's super great.
Rich Brian
Great
Path
Important
Own
Think
Definitely
Kids
See
Super
Carving
Someone
Like
Looks
His
Acknowledge
Them
Who
I grew up in West Jakarta, in a middle-to-low-class neighbourhood.
Rich Brian
Neighbourhood
West
Up
Grew
I started listening to rap music in 2012 or something, because that was when I started becoming friends with American people, and they showed me rappers to listen to. I actually started listening to Macklemore a lot. He's the first rapper I started listening to.
Rich Brian
Music
Me
People
Rapper
Listening
First
Rap
Rap Music
Rappers
Something
He
Because
Becoming
Lot
Friends
American
Listen
American People
Actually
Started
There are good things about Indonesia, but there are bad things about it that I hope can be fixed.
Rich Brian
Hope
Good
Good Things
Bad Things
Bad
About
Indonesia
Fixed
Things
I remember in Indonesia, there was this actor in a film that got pretty big internationally, and he went to Hollywood. Seeing an Indonesian guy doing that when I was 13 or 14, it really motivated me.
Rich Brian
Me
Remember
Big
Seeing
Pretty
Guy
He
Indonesia
Got
Doing
Motivated
Hollywood
Really
Film
Actor
Internationally
At, like, 11, I think, that was just me watching a lot of YouTube videos, and I whenever I had the chance, I would talk to myself, practise pronunciation. Then I found out about hip hop and became friends with American people through Twitter. I was like, 'Yo, I need to be in a country where everybody speaks the same language.'
Rich Brian
Myself
Me
People
Videos
Language
Country
YouTube
Think
Twitter
Everybody
Out
Hop
Would
About
Through
Had
Like
Talk
Became
Practise
Hip
Hip-Hop
Lot
Friends
American
Same
Just
Whenever
Where
American People
Then
Speaks
Found
Watching
Chance
Need
It got to the point where I would wake up at 6 A.M. and go on my phone and tweet something and have it be really good and get lots of retweets... and then I would wake up, because it was actually a dream; I would wake up with my hand holding nothing - an air phone.
Rich Brian
Good
Phone
Wake Up
Holding
Nothing
Air
Dream
Would
Something
Point
Because
Got
Go
Hand
Wake
Lots
Up
Get
Where
Then
Really
Tweet
Actually
My dad put me onto Phil Collins and Dream Theater and all that stuff.
Rich Brian
Me
Dream
Collins
Onto
Put
Stuff
Theater
Dad
Phil
Phil Collins
I'm inspired by a lot of things. I came from Indonesia. I grew up watching a lot of YouTube videos and was inspired by all these other things. I just love making music. I don't think I'm trying to profit off anything. I just like creating stuff.
Rich Brian
Love
Music
Videos
YouTube
Profit
Think
Other
Inspired
Stuff
Indonesia
Like
Making
Came
Lot
Off
Up
Trying
Just
Grew
Anything
Creating
Things
Watching
I'm really about seeing people and art for what they are. Like, seeing people as humans and seeing art.
Rich Brian
Art
People
Seeing
About
Like
Really
Humans
I like what Dumbfoundead and Awkwafina are doing, but I think I'm just trying to do something different.
Rich Brian
Think
Something
Like
Doing
Trying
Just
Different
I didn't want to be one of those people that does something that blows up and keeps doing it for way too long.
Rich Brian
People
Long
Too
Way
Those
Something
Does
Doing
Up
Blows
Want
Keeps
Me and my family used to have a Christian covers band together... like rock Christian music, upbeat, all in Indonesian. The band was called Roasted Peanuts.
Rich Brian
Music
Family
Me
Together
Band
Christian
Like
Rock
Covers
Upbeat
Used
Peanuts
Christian Music
I wouldn't really call myself a spokesman for anything. All I wanna do is inspire young people everywhere - not just Indonesia.
Rich Brian
Myself
People
Inspire
Young
Everywhere
Spokesman
Indonesia
Call
Just
Wanna
Anything
Young People
Really
My influences are a wide variety: from Dave Chappelle stand-up comedy specials on YouTube, to watching chick-flick comedy movies, to scrolling through stuff people say on the Internet.
Rich Brian
People
Comedy
Internet
YouTube
Say
People Say
Variety
Dave
Through
Stuff
Influences
Movies
Stand-Up Comedy
Wide
Wide Variety
Watching
All I have to do is to do my thing. I don't have to talk about it like, 'Oh, I'm representing for Asians.' I'm just... doing it.
Rich Brian
About
Like
Talk
Doing
Oh
Just
Representing
Asians
Thing
I'm definitely trying to make longer songs, but if it's short and good, I'm not going to do anything about it.
Rich Brian
Good
Definitely
About
Songs
Longer
Make
Trying
Going
Short
Anything
I always liked to draw, and when I was a kid, the Internet wasn't big at all, so I would go to Internet cafes and search Google images for cartoon characters and save it to my USB drive.
Rich Brian
Internet
Drive
Google
Big
Draw
Kid
Characters
Would
Cartoon
Cartoon Characters
Liked
Always
Go
Search
Images
Save
When my family got Internet installed at my house, me and my siblings went crazy and would take turns browsing. I'm homeschooled, too, so I would be on the computer every day. It was so exciting to finally get Internet at my house.
Rich Brian
Day
Family
Me
Crazy
Every Day
Internet
Every
Too
Finally
Would
Would-Be
Computer
Take
Exciting
House
Got
Get
Turns
Sibling
I started playing the drums at five years old and used to listen to a lot of screamo bands like Asking Alexandria, Dream Theater, and Attack Attack!
Rich Brian
Old
Alexandria
Dream
Attack
Like
Drums
Years
Lot
Five
Bands
Listen
Theater
Asking
Used
Started
Playing
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