God is in control, and therefore in EVERYTHING I can give thanks - not because of the situation but because of the One who directs and rules over it.
The first rap record came out in '79, but hip-hop began in '69.
In the '70s, anybody who was a connoisseur of collecting vinyl had the velvet brush. Remember the velvet brush? It would clean the record, and you would only grab the record from the sides and you would carefully slide it into the jacket. I never had a velvet brush.
I was reckless with records. I would pull them out by my fingertips. I would put my hands all over them.
Too many times, people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobody's heard the story from the basement.
I needed to be able to hear the mix before you do - that's when I came up with the "peek-a-boo" system.
Hip-hop has always been chronologically misunderstood. Too many times, people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobody's heard the story from the basement. If hip-hop was a cake, all I can tell you is the eggs, the flour, the sugar, the vanilla - the ingredient years.
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.
I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.
Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.