My Kids Are The Most Inspiring Thing

Unfortunately Hip-hop Is So Competitive That In Order For Fringe Groups To Get In, You Gotta Be Better Than Whoever's The Best. So Before Eminem, The Idea That There Would Be A White Rapper That Anybody Would Really Check For Was Fantastic Or Amazing Or Impossible.

I Like Collaboration Because, First Of All, I'm Good At Writing Lyrics. I Don't Know How To Make Beats. I Don't Play Instruments. I'm Not A Good Singer. So Even When You See A Solo Album Of Mine, It's Still A Collaboration.

Music Is Not An Exact Science So Depending On The Time And The Mode And The Energy When We Do It That Will Determine What Happens With It.

My Musical Influence Is Really From My Father. He Was A Dj In College. My Parents Met At New York University. So He Listened To, You Know, Motown, And He Listened To Bob Dylan. He Listened To Grateful Dead And Rolling Stones, But He Also Listened To Reggae Music. And He Collected Vinyl.

Hip Hop Is At Its Essence A Folk Music, Because It Speaks The Language That People Are Still Speaking At Ground Zero, It Speaks The Language That People Speak On The Streets.