and some people feel okay if you do salsa music which is action oriented, whatever you do in salsa is not going to work. in any other genre because it's salsa. and if you bring this idea a little further, that means if you're born in a neighborhood, then you cannot escape whatever problems the neighborhood may have. i mean maybe to extreme. i really felt there is more to the lyric than what was being expressed through the cuban format. i wanted to know what effect would that have? not just in terms of how people would understand and relate to the lyric, but how would i relate to it myself as a singer? >> i don't want to demonize or cast aspersion on any artists, but there are some artists for whom lyrical content is supreme. there are others who are into the beat and into the groove. some into the melody. let me ask one more thing about this lyric. how and why did the lyric become so important to you? >> because i believe part of the problem that we have today is that we have -- we have lost the skills to communicate. i really think that music itself being one of the greatest possible