I Look At The Deejay Thing As

My Musical Influence Is Really From My Father. He Was A Dj In College. My Parents Met At New York University. So He Listened To, You Know, Motown, And He Listened To Bob Dylan. He Listened To Grateful Dead And Rolling Stones, But He Also Listened To Reggae Music. And He Collected Vinyl.

Hip-hop Isn't As Complex As A Woman Is.

To Be Honest, That Whole Exchange With Crunk Feminist Actually Made Me Write The Song Because I Realize There's A Lot Of Young Women Out There So Hurt By The Misogynistic Images In Hip-hop They Paint It With Such A Broad Brush Stroke That They Think Anybody That Defends Hip-hop Is Defending Misogyny.

My Fondest Memories Were Watching The Beastie Boys Get Prepped To Come On Stage. They Had A Lot Of Antics And They Play A Lot Of Basketball... Then They Were Giving Out Cameras To The Crowd, And Performing From The Bleachers. The Most Important Thing I Learned Was That You Control Your Crowd, Not The Other Way Around.

What Else Is Stop And Frisk? These Neighborhoods Are Unsafe Not Because There's Not Enough Cops Illegally Frisking People. They're Not Safe Because Of Economic Conditions. They're Not Safe Because Of All Types Of Things In The Government That People Like Mike Bloomberg And Ray Kelly Should Be Looking To Fix Instead Of Randomly Searching Kids In The Hood. If You Go To A College Campus And You Do Stop And Frisk, You're Going To Find A Lot Of Drugs There, Too.