Jeru the Damaja citations

Jeru the Damaja, de son vrai nom Kendrick Jeru Davis, né le 14 février 1972 à New York, est un rappeur américain. Issu du quartier d'East New York à Brooklyn, il collabore surtout durant sa carrière avec les deux membres de Gang Starr, Guru et DJ Premier, qu'il connait depuis le lycée. Davis est mieux connu pour son premier album publié en 1994, The Sun Rises in the East, cité dans la liste des 100 meilleurs albums de hip-hop par About.com.

En outre, Davis est végétarien et taoïste et se réclamait à l'époque régulièrement de l'héritage idéologique des Black Panthers ou encore de la philosophie rasta. Wikipedia

✵ 14. février 1972

Jeru the Damaja: Citations en anglais

“[Asked who inspired him to be a vegetarian] I used to sell books, when I was about 18 …. We were selling books, and right next to us was an old man. I mean, he had to be about 80 years old, and he was a nutritionist, but he was a holistic nutritionist, and he was talking to us about how you shouldn’t really eat animals and things of that nature … and he pulled up his shirt and the man had the abs of a 15-year-old. He says to us, “Touch ’em. Punch me,”—whatever—and he’s like, “How old do you think I am?” And we thought he was about 50 years old, and he’s like, “I’m 86 years old.””

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Jeru the Damaja

… We looked at each other, me and my friends, and we were, like, when we’re 86, we want to be like that …. So that’s what started it.
" Jeru the Damaja http://www.peta2.com/heroes/jeru-the-damaja/", interview by Peta2, having just released his album Divine Design (2003).