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Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.

Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap.

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.

I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.

I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.

Hip-hop is like underground. I don't know if hip-hop exists anymore. I don't know if it does.

I was literally told for 'The Show Goes On' that I shouldn't rap too deep. I shouldn't be too lyrical. It just needs to be something easy on the eyes. Like a record company telling Picasso that we don't need these abstract interpretations of life, where people have to sit down and look at it and break it down.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.