Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it

I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think that the system follows a great deal.

The thing I've been talking about with daughter is the idea of - and I'm talking about essentially in America - the possibility of, a lost generation. I've been listening to a lot of music - as a fan, as a critic, as somebody who likes to dance - but I hear, you know, within these songs and half the people I hear, these philosophies encoded and embedded in these songs.

We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.

For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live

The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.

I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.