The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers - the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.
Our records are commodities. We're looking to make a sale. The radio stations are looking to get the advertising dollars. The end.
I'll hear us on classic rock radio stations, and I'll go, 'Oh, my God, we're getting old!'
In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.
Your main radio stations, the stations that get the most listeners, don't play anything that has any kind of integrity to it.
Demagoguery sells. And therefore radio stations will put it on. But that doesn't mean that you can't do something else and also make it sell. You know, when I look at an Ann Coulter or I look at a Rush or I look at a Sean Hannity, I think to myself, 'What kind of self-image do you have?'
