Ever since I was a little kid, there used to be the Carnival that used to pass.

No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.

My father being a Caribbean minister, one day I stole the radio. The radio that I stole, I took it to school, showing off how big this boom box was and how bad I was at the time. Once my father figured out where I left the radio, he then got his belt and he walked me, he beat me all the way to where I had hid the radio, and with the boom box.

What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.

You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems.

Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.

There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.