All The Tenets That I Had Grown

To Some Degree, Yeah, Because I Have To Play A Certain Number Of Originals That Might Be Considered Avant-garde Material. I Realize Though, That Only A Few People In The Audience Actually Know What That Music Is, Or Understand It.

Yes, The Audience Is So Important To Negro Music, Especially The Element Of Call And Response.

A Whole Generation Of Young Whites Have Involved Themselves With Traditional Negro Music.

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.

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.