My Parents Were Really Strict

My Life's Goal Is To Find A Happy Medium For Sampling To Be Not Only Legal But For The Right Parties To Benefit From It. There Have To Be Sampling Laws. The Survival Of Hiphop Is Based On That.

At 25, My Idea Of Success May Have Been More Vain, Like, "i'll Be Good The Day That There's $20 Million In My Account And I Have This Particular House And The Wife And 2.5 Kids." But At 40 - And I Know It's Kind Of Silly Telling You Guys This - But As Long As My Metacritic Rating Stays Above 80, That's All I Care About.

Funk Never Dies. It Is Eternal. It Just Smells A Little Different From Time To Time.

I Don't Believe In Good Music And Bad Music Anymore. I'm Through With That Phase Of My Life. Sometimes I Just Wanna Feel Good, So I Put On A Good Record. But Mostly I'm More Of A Businessman Than A Music Fan, So I'm Listening To Music In Terms Of, Is This Effective Or Not Effective?

My First Gig Was At Radio City Music Hall When I Was 13.