When My Agent Told Me He Had

The Rappers Have Gone In And Created A Lot Of Hit Music Based Upon My Influence. And Theyll Tell You If You Ask.

I Love Soul. But I Love A Tune That Has Some Meat In It. Something I Could Hang My Hat On. Because Music Is Universal.

Then, When I Had The Opportunity To Go To Africa And Visit The Villages, I Heard The Real, Raw, True Rhythms And Realised The Origins Of The Old Negro Spirituals I Grew Up With In The South.

Have You Ever Wondered Why Young People Take To Music Like Fish To Water? Maybe It's Because Music Is Fun. Plan And Simple. It Opens Up Their Minds To Dream Great Dreams About Where They Can Go And What They Can Do When They Get Older.

A Certain Administration Which I Won't Call By Name Took The Arts Out Of The Schools, And That Left The Brothers Out On The Street With Nothing, So They Went To The Turntables And Started Rhyming. Then They Had A Way To Express Themselves, And That's The Birth Of Hip-hop.