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I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.

Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.

Just because I grew up a white guy in America doesn't mean that's the music of my life.

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.

American music culture is black culture.

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what I grew up around.

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.

I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about black music, about soul music.