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

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.

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

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.

Just because someone has great content doesn't mean you like them as a rapper.