I Met Mos Def Around That Time

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.

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.

My Parents Are My Biggest Influences. My Parents And My City. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, The Community I Grew Up. I Don't Feel Like I'm Special In That. I Feel Like That's Everybody.

Skip The Religion And Politics, Head Straight To The Compassion. Everything Else Is A Distraction.

Life Without Knowledge Is Death In Disguise.