I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.

When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.

I guess I am a rapper. It's weird to be called that, or tell someone that's your profession.

I grew up in such a melting pot. There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures.

I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

I've never thought of myself as a writer. I still don't, despite all the writing I've done.

I tried without much success to learn a little of the humanities and the arts, but even passing the courses in art history and music history was a challenge.