“There was a few times where we felt alienated - going to, let's say, a...” — Everlast Quote

There was a few times where we felt alienated - going to, let's say, a Public Enemy show, and Professor Griff is going off on a tirade about the white man crawling around on his belly like an animal. And I'm looking around, and the venue is 75 percent full of white people. Griff is a good dude, he's a friend now, by the way.

You know I've got some Waylan Jennings in me and I've also got some Eric B. & Rakim in me.

It's like, on my Instagram I post real life. My real life. And sometimes that's up, sometimes that's down. And you know I think people appreciate that.

In subliminal ways, every song I do, there's something in it that I can attach to hip-hop directly.

There are people so alienated from the mainstream of American culture that it's like a parallel universe. They don't expect anything but trouble from the square world. Every time they interact with that world, they're given a ticket, sent to jail, drafted. It's never good. So they live by a separate value system.

We have for the past year and undoubtedly will be for the next year, dealing with an electorate that is more alienated and more cynical than at any point in modern time.

New Labour has systematically alienated section after section of our natural supporters - teachers, health workers, students, pensioners, public service workers, trade unionists and people committed to the environment, civil liberties and peace.

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.