I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.

I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?

Learn from my mistakes and you don't have to make them yourself.

I've never met anybody in this world like me.

For three years between 16 and 19 I was the opening-act-for-the-opening-act-for-the-opening-act, you know? And then I was on tour with Ice-T, Stetsasonic, EPMD, Sir Mix-a-Lot--legends--and went on to sell 160 million records. It still baffles me.

A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.

More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.