If you can perfect the booth, the stage and just your persona, like maybe in interviews and when people talk to you, then you're a full well-rounded emcee in my opinion.
Joell OrtizI'm really, really, really, really conservative with money. I got to give myself a lot of excuses to spend money, because I come from nothin'.
Joell OrtizI don't hate any sort of music but I just think that the lyricism needs to be in the forefront.
Joell OrtizWhat inspired me as a child is the same thing that inspires me now: being nice. I always try to one up everybody with verses and be lyrical and just stand for the art.
Joell OrtizHip-hop definitely saved my life. Being able to write about the things I was doing, the things I was seein' and all that stuff, putting that on paper and coming into my own as Joell Ortiz. That's why I don't have a stage name, because I chose to talk about everything under the sun that happened to me or next to me in my music.
Joell Ortiz