There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible. |
They said somehow I used to run out of the house and while the Carnival's passing, with no clothes on, and I'm jigging my body, they used to come and pull me in. They said that ever since I was little, I always had the rhythm in me. |
We got the Platinum Sound formula. |
We just dropped some very honest lyrics about where we come from and what's going on. |
We produce, and we have producers we work with. |
We try to bring a lot of live musicianship to the music. A lot of grooves. We're Caribbean; we from the islands. Out of the music industry, I'd say we're the Caribbean producers of the world. |
We're building a movement, a one million man movement. |
We're fortunate enough to work with everybody when they're just getting started. |
We're living in the modern age now. I call it the Year of the Matrix. Back in the day, you had these mixed-tape circuits where if you wanted to get (unreleased) music to your fans, you could go through DJs. Now all our fans have to do is go to their phones, and they'll be the first ones to hear something. And we're not talking about a ring tone here. We're talking about downloading a whole song, or a video. |
We're trying to be one of the Number One studios in New York City, which we are. |
What I picked up on Michael Jackson - because I study people when I watch them - the way that he counts his rhythm with his feet and his neck at the same time is crazy... so he's hearing multiple things at once. And I don't know anybody who does that. |
What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music. |
What Sammy Sosa has done for the Dominican Republic, that's what I think I can do for Haiti. |
When I first heard Bob Marley I was 12 years old. I had just come to the United States from Haiti, and was living in the Marlborough Houses in Brooklyn. |
When I go into the studio... I want it to say something, but at the same time, I want the chicks to dig it. It's got to be sexy. |