and that wasc, the dj. that has changed. we are solo artist. everyone has a name.when i was trying to be a young writer. that eve alt into something else. -- that evolved into something else -- rapper. rapper needs to go. tavis: when you look back on "illmatic" what do you think specifically of the lyrical content? >> it was bold. it was revealing. it was honesty. it was introspective. pictureeally painting a of everything i have seen. everything that was around me. loved at the time. i make references to things that are no longer in style. i say words like phat. today you say something different like that is a nice suit or a smooth suit. i use old school terms. it's cool because it is cemented in that term. tavis: how do you feel when you hear this 20 years later about the conditions you were living versus those same who weres young folk your age then have to navigate every day in 2014? >> good and bad. the bad is because those situations are still happening now. the good thing is what has musicians andven rappers to become business people, and that way you open d