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You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.

It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.

People my age don't always know where their music comes from.

Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a good thing, I guess.

Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.

Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

At first, because this genre of music was so urban, sometimes we would sing songs that were so aggressive. And my parents didn't like it. They would break my cassettes and say, 'That music is garbage.'

Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.

Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.