I'm Just A Musician And A Record

A Person's Age Can Be Determined By The Degree Of Pain He Experiences When He Comes In Contact With A New Idea.

I Guess Hip-hop Has Been Closer To The Pulse Of The Streets Than Any Music We've Had In A Long Time. It's Sociology As Well As Music, Which Is In Keeping With The Tradition Of Black Music In America.

We Got Into All The Trouble You Could Ever Imagine. We Figured That If The Jones Boys And All The Gangsters Ran Chicago, We Had Our Own Territory Now. All The Stores, All The Crime, We Were In Charge Of Everything, My Stepbrother And My Brother.

Benny [carter] Opened The Eyes Of A Lot Of Producers And Studios, So That They Could Understand That You Could Go To Blacks For Other Things Outside Of Blues And Barbecue. He's A Total Musician. He Was The Pioneer, He Was The Foundation. He Made It Possible For That Doubt To Be Taken Away.

You Can Study Orchestration, You Can Study Harmony And Theory And Everything Else, But Melodies Come Straight From God.