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There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.

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

Hip-hop is all over the planet.

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

I freestyle, but I'd rather sit down and write down my music to map out what I'm doing. But if I'm out with my friends, I will freestyle, you know?

The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized.

The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.

K-pop is a weird term because K-pop has everything - rap records - it's very pop-sounding; there are really boy-band-sounding records.

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.