it just inspires me. >> you mentioned kurt cobain.fans know you started out as a lover of rock. so take me back to south side of chicago. tell me about how you got into the rock thing. i'm curious how you made the transition to hip hop. >> i started off like you said loving rock music. that was the first music of my own choice that i was buying at coconuts record store. >> what were you buying? >> well, first i was buying like guns and roses. actually before that, more like kind of corny pop punk stuff like yellow card. and green day. dooky is a really good album. and then i started listening to guns n'roses and acdc and pink floyd. >> i used to love black in black. great album. >> 100%. and then a friend named ashley introduced me to nirvana and just flipped my whole world. and i just dove deep into that and started listening to, you know, white stripes and weezer around the same time. and that's all around the same time i was about to find hip hop. i wasn't really into hip hop at first. i didn't understand -- i didn't understand the