I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that they wanted to make, and the way The Bomb Squad worked with the... they created their whole own world of music.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.
I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms, he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him.
I like Public Enemy a great deal.
A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs.
I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.
I've done a lot of guerrilla theater in my time.
Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.
By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band.
I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.
I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.