For the future, be true to yourself. If you're gonna be influenced by someone be influenced by them. Don't cop them so much that you're a clone. No one wants to deal with a clone. There's not that much more substance in being a clone, but definitely be influenced by people...take what you can from that and sculpt it into your own situation. In doing so, you'll be happy and I think your people will be happy listening to what you do.

There's the shared imagery between hip-hop and comics, with some producers and emcees taking on super hero personas.

For the future, be true to yourself. If you're gonna be influenced by someone be influenced by them. Don't cop them so much that you're a clone. No one wants to deal with a clone. There's not that much more substance in being a clone, but definitely be influenced by people...take what you can from that and sculpt it into your own situation. In doing so, you'll be happy and I think your people will be happy listening to what you do.

I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter.

Hip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture.

When you are creating something artistically and are speaking to or representing a culture that you know truthfully, you are doing a good job.

There have been a lot of hip-hop artists who have made a difference to people's lives, spreading the message of the struggle and representing for those who have overcome adversity.