Mark Francis Rahaman
@MarkR · 2:16
Which artist makes you feel most like yourself?
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They always bring me back to feeling like me. I don't like to connect with their music the most. So no matter what is relative or where I go, I'll always come back to these guys. Sam Cook is definitely one of these guys. Music man. Just everything. His voice, everything. I love it. I just wonder, who is your artist? Who do you go to to make yourself? Even if you've lost yourself? Which I did one time, maybe more
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 3:58
It was like, I had never heard something refreshing like that in a long time, and I'm deep hip hop fan, but it was somebody for me anyway, that when I heard him, I was like, yeah, I could hang with this dude. I could sit around with this dude and talk, whereas Eminem and other rappers and DMX, I can't hang with them square. They see me as a square. They wouldn't f*** with me
Mark Francis Rahaman
@MarkR · 3:48
You resonated with him? Interesting, man. I'm also a Jimi Hendrix fan, and I was reading about Jimi Hendrix, watching documentaries and stuff. But I think I was reading something that you're talking about. Late 60s, 68 or something where he found himself in the same position because he was singing hippie music to the Blacks. He was singing hippie music, white music. And he was dressing like a hippie
Mark Francis Rahaman
@MarkR · 4:09
But the two main ones, of course, Sam Cook and Elvis. And it's about their energy. It's about their energy, their charisma, their voice, their phrasing. But what's coming through very soulful. I just resonate with what I'm hearing, the style. Everything funny. Yeah. I'm listening to Sam Cook right now, and it takes me. I feel like I'm riding on it goes right through me, right through to my soul
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