I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.
I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.
For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me.