Words matter. These are the best Santan Dave Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’ve always like ‘Dragonball Z’ and ‘Naruto,’ that kind of drawing. My older brother draws so he was always drawing ‘Dragonball Z’ characters and so I got into it from there.
I think we internalise a great deal. Music can draw that stuff out of even the hardest person.
I’ve always listened to different styles of music to make sure I’m balanced. I feel like if you only listen to your type of music you can never go outside of it.
Music and football are two industries where black people excel, because talent is undeniable. You can’t deny an amazing voice. You can’t deny amazing athletic prowess. Physically, it’s evident. But in other industries, circumstance is more of a thing.
A lot of people devote their lives to me and what I do. It means the most to be able to repay that faith.
I’ve always had a different ear for music.
Rap, for me, I go at any tempo and any sound of beat and incorporate melody as well.
I’m always looking forward and trying to improve.
The biggest lesson that I’ve learnt is that things can change so quickly, never get used to one thing because everything can flip on it’s head.
I wish I could make myself more riveting but I’m quite standard, as the name suggests.
When I’m performing, the crowd just disappears, it’s like everyone merges – one big person. You just say the words and people will say the words back to you. And it’s just so rehearsed. I have a lot of songs I couldn’t forget the words if I tried. So you get in there, you lose yourself and it’s all good.
For a black person who’s Senegalese, growing up in France, or a New York Jamaican, that’s a completely different relationship with being black and how you might be accepted in that culture or that world. Everyone’s experience is different. Especially black women and black men.
Prison hosts a lot of normal people, a lot of family men who were caught in a tight situation or in a dark place.
Where I’m from, if you can’t see who and what is good for you and who is bad for you, you could end up with the wrong friends, in places where you don’t need to be, with people that you didn’t need to bring into your house, giving your trust to those who could turn on you.
There was a sort of chain in school. I wasn’t, like, mad at the top, but I wasn’t right at the bottom, either.
I like soundtracks. I love Hans Zimmer, the score for ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ is one of my favourites. I also like ‘Man of Steel,’ ‘Inception,’ ‘Interstellar,’ ‘Braveheart,’ ‘Transformers’ – Steve Jablonsky with ‘Arrival to Earth.’ ‘Schindler’s List’ too, that’s beautiful.
The piano is an instrument I’ve always loved and so I taught myself. As a rapper, who wants to produce more, being able to play by ear helps a lot because I know where I want an instrument to turn or how I want it to sound without having to do too much work.
As a human, I’d say I’m pretty intermediate.
Psychodrama’ is a form of therapy and it is just expressing how you feel in whatever way is the most creative to you. Some people act it out, some people sing it out, people find their own different ways.
I really enjoy Lana Del Rey, and Pink Floyd are amazing.
I learnt what I am not good at: listening, staying focused, turning up on time, following orders… I realised that I was going to have to pull off something special, something different.
Sometimes I sit down and I think ‘Do I regret this? Do I regret that?’ And I feel like everything makes this snowball effect, you know? If you regret something, it’s good because it just means that it’s something that’s affected you enough for you to stop and think… There’s a reason that everything happens.
I just can’t belong to a genre, because I don’t know what I would want it to be.
I’m not a grime act, I’m not a rapper, nor am I melody man. I just make music.
I was drawing before I did music, but me, I’m a dilettante. I jump into everything until I find one thing that I enjoy more than others. Rap was something that was always there because my brother used to rap – piano and musical instruments is something I learnt on the way.
