There was a time when hip-hop was its own musical principle, aside from sampling. Like the entire Wild Style break is instrumental. Kurtis Blow's earliest stuff was studio musicians playing. Whodini had a real clear sound, things like "five minutes of funk," stuff that you could write really beautiful, lush string and horn arrangements around, stuff that was just music.

It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.

Restlessness is my nemesis. It's hard to just chill and sit still.

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

I want to be necessary and do good works. I ain't here to waste nobody's time, because I don't want you to waste mine.

I seen her on the ave, spotted her more than once. Ass so fat that you could see it from the front.