People wanted to have fun more than they wanted to learn from their music, and that's where the shift started to happen.

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

I'm ready to run a studio. I'm ready to green light movies, and be in it to win it, you know? It's close. It'll happen.

You really have to challenge yourself to come out of those parameters that they put you in, even if that's your job.

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 make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.

With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast.