A Quote by Big K.R.I.T.
I listened to a lot of old school, golden era music. It gave me a lot of insight on how to rap and give my all.
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I think my writing has an old-fashioned feel to it for whatever reason. I'm just so influenced by the music that I listened to growing up, a lot of it out of the '60s, so it has a natural tendency to feel like it's from another era.
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