I was reckless with records. I would pull them out by my fingertips. I would put my hands all over them.

A lot of journalists say, "Tell us about the '80s." Nobody wants to know about the '70s!

Hip-hop has always been chronologically misunderstood.

In the '70s, anybody who was a connoisseur of collecting vinyl had the velvet brush. Remember the velvet brush? It would clean the record, and you would only grab the record from the sides and you would carefully slide it into the jacket. I never had a velvet brush.

That diversity of production styles and diversity of lyrical structure - I miss that.

I was reckless with records. I would pull them out by my fingertips. I would put my hands all over them.

Too many times, people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobody's heard the story from the basement.