Now people won't beat you up if you are gay; they might just talk behind your back.

Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best. So before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.

Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.

I look at the deejay thing as a tier thing. If I'm not going to compete on that level, I'm just going to do it as a hobby.

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

And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia, any place in Asia, Germany, Africa, it becomes something where you can still go and work. Hip hop is an import culture. We're spoiled by it here. It's homegrown.