Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world. And that just gave me a chance to see how life could be. And it gave me a chance to interact with everybody, not just black people or Mexicans. It made me just a little more worldly.

Do not turn into just cookie-cutter producer, cookie-cutter this, but a producer that people say wow, when they do something it's great or just unique or whatever.

Do I gotta go sell me a whole lotta crack for decent shelter and clothes on my back?

Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music.

I don't listen to nothing while I'm in the studio, because I don't want to be influenced by anybody else.

The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.