I look at the deejay thing as something - I'm good at it because I have my own music. I have enough rhythm to blend at this point.

I feel like your city - with hip hop in particular, because we're always beating our chest and shouting where we're from - your city is just as influential as your parents. Even the grimy, hardcore gangster rap from New York - KRS-One and Wu Tang, the stuff acknowledges it.

I think music sharing of any kind is great.

Coltrane had a sax, Dale Earnhardt drives a race car and everybody has their tools.

I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.

I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.

But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.