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In my head I'm a rapper, but I'm not!

Hip-hop is all over the planet.

You can't compete with hip-hop. That doesn't mean I don't want to be as big as a rap star. I do - I'm always competitive. But there's this weird perception of me as someone who's sitting around plotting like a devil. It's not like that.

I am hip-hop!

For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.

Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.