All The Tenets That I Had Grown

Negro Music And Culture Are Intrinsically Improvisational, Existential. Nothing Is Sacred. After A Decade, A Musical Idea, No Matter How Innovative, Is Threatened.

In Rap Music, Even Though The Element Of Poetry Is Very Strong, So Is The Element Of The Drum, The Implication Of The Dance. Without The Beat, Its Commercial Value Would Certainly Be More Tenuous.

Rap Actually Took Root In The Negro Community, And Then In The Hispanic Community, Long Before It Impacted On The Larger American Community As A Whole.

I Find That Here In The States, Audiences Are Generally Less Knowledgeable, From The Cognitive Point Of View, Though They Are Emotionally More Receptive.

I Can't See Any Separation Between My Music And My Life. I Play Pretty Much Race Music: Its About What Happened To My Father, To Me, And What Can Happen To My Kids.