ディプロさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ディプロInstagram)「When I was barely 20 years old i said goodbye to my brief life and I went to India with a one way ticket . I took a small bag and traveled to Delhi. it was my first time leaving the my country. I had barely any money or expectations but that didn’t matter. I bought a used Enfield motorcycle and traveled everywhere from Ladakh to Rishikesh to Calcutta all the way to Gujarat where I learned a bit of the language collected records, did small jobs; ate Thali every lunch swam in the rivers . When I traveled on bike I made sure that jumped in the cold bucket shower and left my guesthouse around 3 am to drive on the highways to avoid heavy traffic pollution and heat, I would sleep on my bike at tea stands when I was getting too tired or my eyes or lungs burned from the dust. sometimes I would check my bike onto trains as freight and sleep on my bags so no one would take my computer or equipment. I can talk about my youth in india for hours. I had a friend (he was dealing drugs and Awol from the US ARMY) would take me to whore houses where he would meet up with his regular girls and I would smoke hash and listen to the sickest sitar and tabla players in sketchy basements where each establishment only had numbers not names . I cut my teeth in India, I learned about music I lived weekly on a few dollars . I fixed my own bike with chicken wire on the engine guard when i drove off a road in pitch black nights when I had to avoid giant dead cows on the highway that were hit by Tata freight trucks . I prayed that I would have solid stool every week because of how much street food I ate. India was such beautiful chaos and has always been my favorite place in this world and I always tell people this is where I feel like I became a man.. because even though I traveled alone I fell in love so many times with the craziest outcasts and also because any mistakes would land me in jail or get me killed. (police or a leopard or whatever) The feeling to be invited back to a India every few years to perform is so humbling and a blessing because if it wasn’t for my trial by fire as a young man in India. I wouldn’t be the artist and man I am today. i’ll post a recap tomorrow 🇮🇳 🧡🤍💚」2月2日 1時32分