Used To Ride With Him To Brooklyn,

Born Alone, Die Alone, No Crew To Keep My Crown Or Throne

Hip-hop Is The Streets. Hip-hop Is A Couple Of Elements That It Comes From Back In The Days... That Feel Of Music With Urgency That Speaks To You. It Speaks To Your Livelihood And It's Not Compromised. It's Blunt. It's Raw, Straight Off The Street - From The Beat To The Voice To The Words.

Mostly Every Form Of American Music Is Dead. It's Been Dead. R&b Isn't Really Good. You Got A Handful Of Great Guys - Ne-yo, R. Kelly, Usher. You Have A Handful Of Great Female Artists. But For The Most Part The Music World's Changing And Change Is Good. You Have To Make Adjustments If You Want To Survive In That World. You Start To Thinking About Creative Moments - Bliss. When Everything Was All Good. You Realize That In Comparison To The Way Hip-hop Started Off, Where We Should Be At Right Now Is Not There.

Turnin' Nothin' Into Somethin' Is God Work, And You Get Nothin' Without Struggle And Hard Work

When I Try To Sound Like The Contemporary Sound, It Never Turns Out That Way. That's Just Me.