If you think about the history of Hip Hop we’ve had artist who can talk about from socially significant ideas to something as cool as sneakers.

All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go – when certain things will enhance the record you’re listening to.

I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you’re recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one...

As an individual I was known as the DJ or the mixer.

I think what’s happening here is, there’s a group or maybe one person who is saying this is gonna be the definition and this is what we want to get the kids to do now.

Disco B still rolls with me now. He’s still doing his thing. He does clubs in different places. He was very instrumental in helping me perfect my craft.

Normal kids in their teens want to go and date girls and do mischievous things, your hormones are jumping around, but I stayed in my bedroom in search of something.

Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn’t dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes...

So what I’m trying to say is from a musical aspect for anybody to say that whatever they’re doing in Florida is not Hip Hop or whatever they’re doing in LA is not Hip Hop,...

Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You’re writing for the public.

So what the owners see is that we are fighting amongst each other and causing controversy, but as long as it’s selling records they don’t care.

Exactly, especially when you’re talking about a music where you can do just about anything. We can talk about just about anything lyrically.

The type of mixing that was out then was blending from one record to the next or waiting for the record to go off and wait for the jock to put the needle back on.

My contribution to this whole thing is I was the first DJ to take an inanimate object called the turntable and play it like it was an instrument.

For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that’s not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue...

Unfortunately we are arguing amongst each other so much when the bottom line is we don’t own anything. We are offspring to a record label owner.

But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and my first student Grand Wizard Theodore, and to go out...

For instance, if you’re playing a record with drums – horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record with horns and slip it in at certain times.

We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We’re all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop.

My contribution is: I was the first DJ to make the turntable an instrument.

For us to keep claiming this isn’t Hip Hop and that isn’t Hip Hop doesn’t make sense to me.

We can even sing off key, but if it’s produced properly it can be a hit.

I was the first DJ to make the turntable an instrument.

Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.

We gotta stop fighting amongst each other. I think the only rift should be when take it the stage and try to out perform each other.

A scratch is nothing but the back-cueing that you hear in your ear before you push it out to the crowd.

I had love for Breakout; I had love for Bambaataa. I had love for Kool Herc.