To Make Independent Films, You Can't Think

So To Compare The Beatles, Obviously The Beatles Are The Beatles, But In Hip-hop Terms, Tribe Is The Beatles. Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five Are The Beatles. Big Daddy Kane Is Jimi Hendrix. It Means That Much To People That Grew Up With It.

At The End Of The Day, My Sole Goal, When I Go Into Any Scene, Is To Try To Be As Honest As I Possibly Can, And Then Everything Else Is Second. The Most Important Thing For Me Is To Just Be As Honest As I Possibly Can.

Socially, Hip-hop Has Done More For Racial Camaraderie In This Country Than Any One Thing. 'cause Guys Like Me, My Kids - Everyone Under 45 Either Grew Up Loving Hip-hop Or Hating Hip-hop, But Everyone Under 45 Grew Up Very Aware Of Hip-hop. So When You're A White Kid And You're Listening To This Music And You're Being Exposed To It Every Day On Mtv, Black People Become Less Frightening. This Is Just A Reality. What Hip-hop Has Done Bringing People Together Is Enormous.

I Don't Want To Misrepresent Who I Am Personally. I Don't Want My Kids To See Me On A Talk Show And Say, "you're Talking Different" Or "you Look Different, Dad." I'm Not Gonna Be An Animal; I Know How To Conduct Myself.

Sometimes You Know About A Job Four Months In Advance. Sometimes You Know About A Job Four Days In Advance. It's All Different, And My Thing Is Just To Try To Stay Prepared. It's Like Being A Boxer. You Never Know When You're Going To Get Your Next Fight, So You Have To Just Stay In Shape, Mentally And Physically And Creatively.