I've Always Loved Rhyming. I Love Language.

There Was A Time When Hip-hop Was Its Own Musical Principle, Aside From Sampling. Like The Entire Wild Style Break Is Instrumental. Kurtis Blow's Earliest Stuff Was Studio Musicians Playing. Whodini Had A Real Clear Sound, Things Like "five Minutes Of Funk," Stuff That You Could Write Really Beautiful, Lush String And Horn Arrangements Around, Stuff That Was Just Music.

Make Today's Solid Ground Out Of Yesterday's Quicksand.

Hip-hop Went From Selling Crack To Smoking It

I Think Hip-hop Is Actually One Of The Most Challenging Things That's Happened In Music In A Long Time. The People Who Are In Charge Of What People See Or Hear Are Afraid. What You Hear On Top 40 Or What You See On Bet Or Mtv Is Not A Fair Representation Of What Is Really Going On...

I'm Inspired By Playwrights, Novelists, Poets: The Value Of Language Has Been A Lifelong Passion Of Mine. I Enjoy It. I'm Good At It.