If You Look At My Career, Doing

Fortunately, Artists Can Live Off Their Works, If You're Creative At How You Do It. If You Just Depend On The Videos And The Radio, You're At A Loss.

As Far As My New York Influence, One Thing I'm Proud Of In My Career Is, I Rep Brooklyn, New York All Day. But People Don't Look At My Music As New York Music. People Consider My Music Underground Music.

I Like Collaboration Because, First Of All, I'm Good At Writing Lyrics. I Don't Know How To Make Beats. I Don't Play Instruments. I'm Not A Good Singer. So Even When You See A Solo Album Of Mine, It's Still A Collaboration.

People Consider Black Star A Great Album, And I Think It's A Classic Album. But The Fact Is, Both Me And Mos Def Have Made Better Albums Since Black Star.

I Think Once You're In The Public Eye, Whether You're A Boss, A Teacher Or Whatever You Do, That You're Automatically In The Position Of Role Model. You Have People Looking Up To You, So Whether You Choose To Accept It Or Not Is A Different Question.