There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.

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.

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.

I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.