Soul Music Has So Many Great Artists

Before I Think We Was Emcees, We Was More Or Less Narrators Too. Because If You Look At The Early '80s Hip Hop, It Was So Much Creativity Goin' On With Artists Like Then, Like Slick Rick, Then You Had Rakim, And You Had These Different Kind Of Artists Back Then. And We Was A Marble Cake Of All These Artists. So I Didn't Have A Problem With Writin' Stories Because I Felt Like That Was Somethin' I Loved To Do. Even To This Day, I Really Consider Myself An Entertainer-slash-narrator. I Like To Talk About Stuff That Goes On.

When You A Young Kid At That Age At That Time, And You Know That You Got Talent As Far As Hip Hop, You Wanna Be On The Radio, That's The First Thing. So We Was More Or Less Infatuated With Just Havin' A Song On The Radio, You Know? Before Our Careers Even Launched It Was More Or Less About Lettin' Everybody Know, 'staten Island? You Got Good Emcees There.'

The Better You Get, The More Your Legacy Shines. I Always Just Try To Go Hard. If You Don't Want Do It For Real, Don't Do It At All.

We Was Just Young Guys Who Wanted To Change. We Got Tired Of Doin' This Same Everyday Bullshit That We Was Doin', And We All Felt Like We Had Dreams O' Bein' A Big Star. You Know, As Far As With Myself, I Never Really Took It That Serious As Bein' A Star. I Only Took It That Serious As Bein' A Emcee, Which Is Two Different Things. You Know What I Mean?

When You Grow Up In That Environment Of Drugs And Guns And People Gettin' Hurt, It Start To Reflect Your Background. And I Think, At That Time When I Was Doin' It, That's All I Knew. But As I Got Older In The Business, I Stopped Bein' Involved With That, And I Started To Look At The World. And I Said, 'yo, I Wanna Start Talkin' About Everything That Goes On In The World. I Don't Wanna Just Limit Myself To One Style'.