You have to understand the vehicle, the form that allows you to do what you do, and why that is.

If you holding up the wall then you missing the point

The stuff I'm working on is quite dense. I'm seeing every four bars as a scene in a film.

Kids don't even realize what they're up against.

New York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty.

You feel pressured to do what you think the public wants, when in actuality the sales aren't reflecting what the radio is doing. Not in the least bit!

There's a need for pop. There's a need for radio. There's also a need to understand the brilliance and the depth of jazz and soul - and what hip-hop can be at its most brilliant and what hip-hop can be at its most simplistic.