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We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early.

I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids.

I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.

My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.

Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.

I am a huge hip-hop fan, and growing up, I only listened to hip-hop, so I dressed accordingly.

I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop.

I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.

The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.

Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.