Hip-hop has always been chronologically misunderstood. Too many times, people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobody's heard the story from the basement. If hip-hop was a cake, all I can tell you is the eggs, the flour, the sugar, the vanilla - the ingredient years.

I needed to be able to hear the mix before you do - that's when I came up with the "peek-a-boo" system.

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

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

There's no such thing as a perfect historical film.

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.

The first rap record came out in '79, but hip-hop began in '69.