I Don't Deserve A Songwriters

I Guess Hip-hop Has Been Closer To The Pulse Of The Streets Than Any Music We've Had In A Long Time. It's Sociology As Well As Music, Which Is In Keeping With The Tradition Of Black Music In America.

I Started Imagining This Whole Different World. It Was A Society Of Musicians, A Family I Hoped I Could Belong To One Day.

Some Summers My Father Would Take Us Down To Visit Our Grandmother In Louisville, Who Was An Ex-slave, Susan Jones, And She Had A Shotgun Shack They Call It, And No Electricity, A Well In The Back, A Coal Stove, Kerosene Lamps.

I Never Felt Like That In My Life. I Didn't Know Human Beings Played These Instruments. I Heard Them In Chicago And Louisville And St. Louis All My Life, You Know? But I Didn't Know Human Beings Played Them, You Know? So The Next Day I Went To Coontz Junior High School And I Started On Sousaphone, Tuba, B-flat Baritone, E-flat Alto, French Horn, Trombone.

I Used To Practice Piano For Hours, And Now, With A Synthesizer, You Can Input The Music And The Machine Perfects The Song. That's Why We Have So Many People In The Music Business Who Should Be Plumbers. They Don't Really Understand Music Because They Haven't Been Trained.