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“I got called “Oreo” as a kid because I was black, but I hung out with white boys and skated. I had black friends, and I noticed they were into the same things but a lot of them still chose a lane [conforming]. You can’t fault me because my friends were teaching me what an ollie was and I was dropping in on a mini half-pipe, listening to Suicidal Tendencies and Dead Kennedys.”

A short excerpt taken from Complex’s interview with Pharrell Williams for their ‘Best of 2013’ digital issue, in which the illustrious one  reveals a hell of a lot, including re-invention, being pulled up on his mistakes, his son, schooling Justin Bieber on broader thinking, Kurt Cobain and Puff Daddy being influences, dressing like a ‘Black skinhead’, never belonging to anything, a great sock analogy about life’s surprises and proving himself a defender of Miley Cyrus.

Read the article in full and check out the insane next-level interactive web-page graphics too.

Mica Nantes

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