Andre Benjamin

Musician, Actor

Andre Benjamin is a renowned musician and artist, known for his innovative contributions to hip-hop and his exploration of identity through art.

Born
May 27, 1975
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Rank
#3855

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"Cool is not just one type of cool. Cool is confidence and knowing, i guess, what you are and being fine with it. Some people can be what people call “nerds” and they're cool because they know they're needs. They know what they are and they're so confident in knowing what they are that that makes them cool, and somebody aspires to be like them because they're fine with it. it's confidence, you know."

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"You download it for free, we get charged back for it. I know you're saying, "They won't know, they won't miss it, Besides, I ain't a thief, they won't pay me a visit." So, if I come to your job, take your corn on the cob, And take a couple kernels off it, that would be alright with you?"

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"People see you on screen and they like you, but they never really get a chance to meet you. When you're doing music, you know you have to go sit at in-stores, and you're actually in the street, so there's more of a hands-on kind of thing."

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"It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you."

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"Now, my oral illustration be like clitoral stimulation to the female gender Ain't nothin' better Let me know when it's wet enough to enter"

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"But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things."

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"Askin what happened to the feelin that her and me had, I pray so much about it, need some knee pads."

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"I met a gypsy and she hipped me to some life game, To stimulate, then activate the left and right brain. Said, 'Baby boy, you only funky as your last cut. You focus on the past, your ass'll be a has-what.' That's one to live by, or either that's one to die to."

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"What's cooler than bein' cool?"

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"If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored."

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"You look in the mirror everyday and you see the same thing. As an entertainer, you wanna see something new."

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"I'm a vegan, but I like to look good, too."

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"With music, you can portray a certain thing, but in film, sometimes you have to let yourself go to a point where that can be attractive to a person, that you're willing to let yourself go that much. It works both ways."

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"I just try things. And the things I like, sometimes they work, and sometimes they don't. You can look at pictures where I just look terrible. But the older I get, the more I know what works. It's for the better."

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"As a rapper, your verses are like a window in to who you are."

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"The rap game has to save itself. Everybody's saving it. People like Lil Wayne is saving it. He's bringing energy to it."

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"As a rapper, I don't freestyle. I used to freestyle when I used to get drunk, and it didn't matter."

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"I don't freestyle, but when I'm writing and thinking, sometimes things pop up - that's basically a freestyle."

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