The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years.
The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.
To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands.
They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.
You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.
When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers.
We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.
I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.
I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.
I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.
David Bowie's my favorite musician. I love him above all, but I'm really into rap a lot right now.