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• When I graduated, I was going to go to school for law, but had such an affinity for hip-hop. It was like walking into a casino and I decided to bet everything on hip-hop, and I hit! My hit wasn’t just a hit for me, it was a hit for everyone in this culture.

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• When I first started to beatbox on the microphone with the Get Fresh Crew, people were shocked. Some things are just supposed to happen and you have to roll with it.

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• There’s nothing more special than talking in your community, and using your celebrity to uplift people and help them.

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• Scientology is not written with disrespect toward God. It doesn’t worship something that is evil. It is scientific, mathematical, and spiritual. The black community has to check it out and see what’s there. I’m not saying it’s for everyone, but you have to take a look.

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• Scientology is not a white religion. It is not just for white people.

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• Really, even in this whole Obama initiative, and everything that’s going on with the economy, the only way to jump start it is we have to give each other opportunity. That’s the only way to make it work.

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• My sons are coming out with music. Square Off, they’re called.

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• It’s like having a conversation. Doing beatbox for me is as natural as talking is for someone else. Sending sound through a certain part of my throat, so that I am accurate every time. It’s not like whatever happens happens, this is a focused sound.

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• I’ve learned how to look at things and not judge them, but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality.

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• I’m always trying to come up with something new and unique. I do a beatbox with a harmonica.

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• I was probably like 13 years old, 14. And I used to walk home doing the beatbox from school. That’s how I created it. There was no walkmans back then, no iPods, no CDs. There was just me. Back then there was the boom box.

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• I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful, and if you give the kid the right information, it can be very useful to the family.

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• I think the rebuilding of the city has to start with the spirit first. So the music, the vibe, the connection spiritually with the artists. Everybody out here is the main key. A lot of people are still in a lot of tough situations. My heart still goes out to the people of New Orleans.

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• I could still walk the street. I don’t have to have no massive security.

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• Honestly, a lot of pop records have beatboxing. Timbaland beatboxes on his tracks. Justin Timberlake beatboxes.

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• Health has always been an important thing to me. I exercise and try to take care of myself, and drink a lot of water! And I push that to my kids so that they can carry on that same energy.

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• Everything is a process… some of our eating habits consist of things we can’t change, but if we modify it a little and put some exercise in there, we can really make a difference.

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• Essence is something I always enjoy, because I love New Orleans. Since they brought it back to New Orleans, it’s a special place to me. We been doing it since the beginning. We did it when it was in Houston, but there’s nothing like New Orleans.

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• And I always try to make a clean, honest, product and ideas for people to get into that can transcend time. Like the Dougie.

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• People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.

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Doug E. Fresh (26)

Birth:	17th September, 1966
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Rapper, Record Producer

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Douglas E. Davis was born in Christ Church, Barbados. He is a Barbadian-born American rapper, record producer, and beat boxer, also known as the Human Beat Box.

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