Pastoral Resources

When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.

So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody.

Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.

In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

If I could rap, that would be a sensation, but I can't, you see, I'm just a Caucasian.

David Bowie's my favorite musician. I love him above all, but I'm really into rap a lot right now.

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.

I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.

I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.

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.

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.

When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers.

You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.

But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat.

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.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

We still have that same burn, to get that same kind of laughs. So whether the studio wants us to or not, we're going to do it. The money is just a byproduct of coming out with good stuff. Our whole thing is building that rapport with the audience.

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?