Top 68 Quotes & Sayings by Masego

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Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Micah Davis, known professionally as Masego, is a Jamaican-American musician and singer known for incorporating the saxophone into his music. Masego released two EPs in 2016, The Pink Polo EP with Medasin, and Loose Thoughts. He gained widespread attention with his collaborative record with FKJ called "Tadow" in 2017. In 2018, he released his debut album Lady Lady.

American - Musician | Born: June 8, 1993

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There's not a lot of thinking in my music. I freestyle a lot of things and organize it later, and then it becomes a song.

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I started on the drums when I was eight.

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My father's from Jamaica.

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It's really easy to hide in metaphor or hide in a solo or instrumentation, but when you're saying explicitly this is how I feel it's a bit different - it makes you a more vulnerable person.

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Jazzy Jeff is somebody who taught me what I really wanted to do for other people. He has the big ol' house where musicians can come there, stay for a while, create music, eat, reset.

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I'm on the Internet heavy. I'm on YouTube like it's nobody's business. That's where I discovered a cat like Reggie Watts. By learning that music, I became the black sheep in the group, like 'Here comes Masego with all that weird music.'

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I like to dress well, I like to look good, I like to smell good.

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When I was about 15 years old, I used to have a lot of jam sessions at my house. And all the kids would kind of come over, and I would kind of deejay some music that I discovered that month.

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When I don't know all the rules, I just break them all. And it becomes like a higher level of music because of that.

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I don't watch the news too much, and I don't look too deep into bad news about artists.

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I think for the culture I gotta collaborate with Pharrell. He's from my area, that'd be amazing - what he would pull out of creatively.

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Most of my music is reflective, imaginative. A lot of it is about how I'm going to feel in the future.

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With 'Pink Polo,' I wanted something I could listen to when I was doing different activities during the summer and also bring a message in it.

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I remember I was a freshman in high school the first time I heard OutKast.

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To be able to be at the level that I perform onstage, I have to embody everything I've made my music about. Which is me.

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If you're really chosen for music, it just comes to you and you just let it pass through. That's how I create.

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Full circle: 2014 I go from playing on the street to getting invited to play on stage, now 2016 I'm headlining.

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I'm a textbook Gemini. I just need variety and I'm random.

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I'm black so I've been getting eyed by cops my whole life.

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My mother had this huge binder of CDs from everyone she loved, like progressive gospel artists. You know, she loved like how Yolanda Adams was kind of R&B, but it was, like, still gospel.

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Something I do naturally is I just involve women in my professional work. I hire them, I pay them, I put them in the workplace I'm involved in.

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The West Coast really allows you to understand who you are. You come across so many talented people you have to look back at yourself and see what makes you unique.

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I have two sisters, so there was no brother to beat up on. As a result, I've never hidden from emotions.

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I feel like it's my responsibility to contribute to a good vibe in the world and to do what I can, when I can.

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I just do very old man, adult things.

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I do old man things by default, just stay in the hotel room, eat oatmeal, and drink tea.

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Everyone communicates with music in a different way. With some people, if there's not sheet music, they're not playing it.

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I've always loved fashion, but when you're broke, you're wearing whatever your dad gave you.

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I thought I was cool until I left the country. I went to Tokyo, and I was like, man, why am I wearing these jorts?

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I like to produce music and put it out and hopefully it can help people through whatever crisis they have.

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Gospel influences your soul. If you've had church in your background... it's just a part of your musical DNA.

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Seeing Ed Sheeran make a beat from scratch when I was in college changed my life.

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I don't want to Kanye it, but I listen to myself a lot.

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I feel like anything with my music can be traced back to a woman.

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I'm an athlete. I play basketball and football and all that with a bunch of other men, but that doesn't impact me emotionally.

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I'm going to be the first person to do every creative idea he's ever had in his head.

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I don't want to create music or do a partnership because of the money. I don't want to be money-influenced.

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In college, this cheerleader put me on to this artist called Kimbra, and that was huge to me because that's the first time I saw somebody looping. She sampled her voice and made a song with that, and that just blew my mind.

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'Black Love' made my mama cry, so this is one of those song songs. When I hear it, it makes my heart do some things.

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Every time I have a conversation with a woman, I gleam something from it.

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I started playing sax when I was fourteen because I'm like a real competitive person when it comes to winning girls attention. And there was this girl that I really wanted the attention of and I found out she really liked jazz.

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I learn things myself. I call it YouTube University; YouTube has taught me more than anything. I learned how to tie a tie, all my pick-up lines come from YouTube reruns of 'Fresh Prince.'

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I like how hip-hop is just shocking and fun.

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You can't really choose what influences you. You can't choose what sparks something inside you.

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When things line up, the music just flows.

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I didn't get to have a girlfriend, bring her over to the house. I'm a lot slower understanding some of those things, but I never see it as a disadvantage.

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With 'Lady Lady' I wanted to tell a story bluntly, and that's what happened. The goal is to get Erykah Badu-ish with it because she super bares her soul and she's so blunt.

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I love nature and botanical gardens.

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Everything that I'm doing, it's like a future jazz, future trap house movement.

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I write about love so I can keep focused on the true goal: to be with my lady, lady and travel with her and have my li'l family unit.

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I was joked by a lot of older musicians because I was playing saxophone over trap beats or future bounce beats, and it just wasn't what you do. They were just like play some John Coltrane and get in the corner. But that's just not how I work.

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I'm Jamaican, so I come from a very whip with two belts background - being sensitive isn't really part of my culture.

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From a shallow standpoint, I like nice things.

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I travel more than anybody I know.

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Anyone I have musical chemistry with, I recruit, and we do shows and create drum kits together and make tunes for the SoundCloud.

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I smile too much to be in a gang. I don't got that 'hit somebody' vibe.

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I listened to gospel music because that was just our culture, you know? My parents are pastors.