Quincy Jones Talks Being A Musician And A Gangster

Quincy Jones talks about growing up in gangland Chicago. He states you want to be what you see, and I wanted to be a gangster till I was 11. I wanted to be a gangster because that's all I saw in Chicago. In 1971, Jones was the first African American to be named as the musical artist.

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