and they see you in the hallway the next year and they don't have you as a teacher anymore they are like Yo! You just have to really care about what you doing and it's the same with music that's why I'm able to teach through music. A lot of people come up to me and say my songs helped them through certain times in their life. That's the best compliment I think anybody can get. I've heard that in England, Boston, I've heard that in LA so it feels good worldwide. I would listen to Al Green when I had problems with my girl or Bob Marley after I came home from a test. I have certain things in my CD case that I listen to when I feel a certain way so to have people to be able to say that about my shit or to have girls that might have had troubles or been assaulted or things of that nature listen to "Like This Anna" and be like word; or to have people listen to The Best Part when they are starting to rhyme or to have people listen to "Satisfied" when they are mourning somebody in the

tragedy at the world trade center or just watching all the bullshit on the news everyday; to have someone recognize a song like "Them That's Not" and see all the ignorant rappers out there that are living that out and to be able to tell me I relate to it and I see what your saying those are the best compliments I ever get.

With The Best Part being bootlegged like it was you weren't able to really gain exposure. With this new release your getting a lot of publicity it seems like everything kinda fell into place.

This is what happens when you have an official release. When a record is released to press and its not released to the masses somebody's gonna sell it, its only right. I can't even be mad it's a supply and demand thing. It would be different if I was putting a record on the shelf and someone