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My Parents Are My Biggest Influences. My Parents And My City. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, The Community I Grew Up. I Don't Feel Like I'm Special In That. I Feel Like That's Everybody.

The Most Important Time In History Is - Now - The Present, So Count Your Blessings Cause Time Can't Define The Essence.

Jazz Is The Greatest American Art Form And Our Greatest Export. We Don't Pay Attention To The Youth Of Jazz, Don't Stoke The Fires Creatively For The Youth Coming Up. I Feel Like Jazz Musicians Became Too Much Of Purists - With Donald Byrd Doing Funk Jazz In The '70s.

The Beautiful Thing About Hip-hop Is It's Like An Audio Collage. You Can Take Any Form Of Music And Do It In A Hip-hop Way And It'll Be A Hip-hop Song. That's The Only Music You Can Do That With.

War Is Not Civilized.