Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.

For my birthday, buy me a politician!

I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

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.

Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.

Success really comes down to the product, not to me, my personality, or what club I'm seen going into or coming out of. None of that matters. What's important is whether or not people feel like they wasted their time or money when they pay for a movie or a CD.