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I was born and raised in Detroit.

Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.

I am a son of Detroit. I was born in Detroit.

There's a lot of influences that I have from Detroit that are subliminal. I mean, I spent the first 10 years of my life there. My mom and dad were born and raised there, so a lot of that rubbed off on me. When I get angry, sometimes a Detroit accent comes out.

I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

I see the people in Detroit are very - they're like a lot of cities, but they're very proud to be from there and they really want to see change and they really want to see good things happen.

I'm from Canada, and I think, like everyone growing up anywhere else in the world, you are very aware of America - it sort of looms large in its legend, and so did Detroit.

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.