As a late teenager, the punk movement pushed me further. In particular, the Clash, which happened to leak through the time of disco, showed me that there was this cross-cultural sound that could cut across genres and audiences. Like punk was to disco, rap music was a rebellion against R&B, which had adopted disco and made it worse.

Being called Black in America is the struggle to keep us moving and breathing over bloody water. Being a Nig**r or [Ni**a] without the context of history is like drowning in bloody water, dragging down those yet knowing to swim.

I adhere to the philosophy, "I don't care who writes the laws, let me write the songs."

Share and enjoy the fruits of this planet.

Every time something tries to create respect with a machine it crumbles!

If they can send you to war at 18, maybe it's beneficial for some people to think that most of us gotta go to war for our own existence.

DJ culture always made us aware that the best records were going to come from the small shops