“My goal was never to be just a rapper or MC.” — Everlast Quote

My goal was never to be just a rapper or MC.

I've been very fortunate that the pool of musicians that I know in L.A. are incredible musicians. After playing with cats for a long enough time, you learn certain cats, when you're playing, can lock in on a groove or a sound. It's unspoken. It's a language that's really unspoken.

Even after my family moved West, I would come back to Long Island as a teenager, stay with aunts and go to the city to look at graffiti and chase down the b-boy culture.

I can sell modest numbers, have fun and make good music, and still be successful.

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

I knew I wanted to be a rapper when I was, like, 5.

It takes a certain type of rapper for me to really get into the album.

I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.

I'm not the greatest writer or the great rapper.

You know, I wasn't a rapper, never wanted to be a rapper. That wasn't my style.