I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

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

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.

I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop... everything! But it all blends together nicely. It's like a magical music rainbow.