english: Then one day I told him, "Reg E., what is subordination for verbal measures to tonal consideration?" (Laughter) And he handed me a black-and-white printed out thesis on a poet named Etheridge Knight and the oral nature of poetry, and from that point, Reggie stopped becoming the best to me, because what Etheridge Knight taught me was that I could make my words sound like music, even my small ones, the monosyllables, the ifs, ands, buts, whats, the gangsta in my slang could fall right on the ear, and from then on, I started chasing Etheridge Knight.
non_english: Onda sam ga jednog dana pitao: "Reg E., šta je podređenost verbalnih mera značenju tona?" (Smeh) I on mi je dao crno na belo  odštampanu tezu o pesniku po imenu Eteridž Najt i usmenoj prirodi poezije i od tada, Redži nije više bio najbolji za mene, jer ono što me je Eteridž Najt naučio, bilo je da mogu da učinim  da moje reči zvuče kao muzika, čak i kratke, jednosložne, ako, i, ali, šta, i ono što je gengsta u mom slengu  može da prione na uvo, i od tada,  počeo sam da jurim Eteridža Najta.