Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.

I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic.

Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling.

According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.

Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time.

To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.