Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.

You gotta learn the alphabet, backwards and forwards. And then the choice is yours, 'cause last I looked, the Bible is written in the same words, the exact same alphabet, as my favorite pornography. Choice is yours.

People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.

I grew up on radio, not TV.

Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.