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Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

When I was growing up, hip-hop was still a pretty specialised thing.

The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized.

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

Hip-hop is all over the planet.

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along.

Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on.

I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.