It's not about what you get out but what you put into hip hop as a genre.

It's not about what you get out but what you put into hip hop as a genre.

So, rather than trying to humbly mix with the rest of the world, we are forcing ourselves upon it. We seem to create conflicts with everyone.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States.

You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it.

Someone like Jay-Z does have a timeless quality, but it's much different than ours. You can look back at something like "At the Hop" by Danny and the Juniors or the music that was on American Bandstand in the 1950s-'60s.