Whenever I sat down to write something it was never anything I took lightly. It was something that I'd want you, somebody in Japan, and somebody [over there to hear it].

I started studying in '85 and got knowledge of self and started spitting. What was going on was taking the understanding of what I was reading and applying it with my life and applying it with my rhymes.

It is what it is but I do me and I think people respect that. They see me out in the hood by myself or with wifey and I don't have no bodyguards.

Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music man. It's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat.

Back then all I cared about was rhyming and making beats. That was my trade, my hobby.

Everything becomes too normal after a while.

I've always been a picky eater but I'm not the healthiest eater.