Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

The United States can't be sheriff of the whole world.

November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.

People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are doin' in their lives.

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.