By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something unattainable. Never-ending undying love. And in hip hop, we're still taking direct inspiration.

Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build

By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something unattainable. Never-ending undying love. And in hip hop, we're still taking direct inspiration.

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

We get high on all types of drugs when, all you really need is Love

But there's so many things in life like women, like children, like God and family that transcends the world of hip-hop.

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