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

I make a pretty good living compared to most Americans, but I don't hang out with a lot of people who aren't blue collar.

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.

I want people, at the end of my days, to be like, 'Yo, he did all that, but overall, the dude was a great musician.' That's the goal.

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.