
PK 015: Francis Vallejo talks about the life of a freelance artist.
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The Importance of Hip-Hop
I grew up in Detroit, you know I grew up on eight-mile same exact area from the movie and Eminem and all that stuff So as he was listening to Chumba Wamba, there would just be the most heavy ignorant craziest You know hip-hop drug music you can possibly imagine just everywhere. My parents were a little cautious. They're like do we want little Francis listening to this? but Since they weren't in surf, you know, I should listen to it that meant of course I was going to. He didn't have a ton of confidence as a younger guy And listening to this rap music, which is all about bragging self-confidence, you know all this
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