I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

London, London, London town,
You can toughen up or get thrown around.

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.