This is taken from an interview with Mark Eastman:
“Hiphop is popular music, it’s popular now. They (labels and fans) don’t understand it though, dirty. Hiphop started getting popular music with Run DMC; feel me dirty? When they did that song with Aerosmith (“Walk This Way”) that was when it was getting popular. They crossed over to rock music right there. But no one said nothing, dirty, you know? No one would have the balls to say Run isn’t hip hop. Now they want to talk about people who sell a certain amount, it’s like you sell over 3 million and you’re popular then, you know? But no one really knows how many units they’re going to move, right? That’s exactly right, Dirty. No one is going to say ‘Look, I only want to sell 2 thousand units, and after that take my joints off the shelves’; I have yet to meet that person.
“Anyone who says that they don’t want to sell anything is a hypocrite, and I know one of the biggest in the game, KRS-One, I offer? Exactly! KRS-One. There is no bigger hypocrite, dirty. He changes his mind every day. Remember when he said ‘BDP (Boogie Down Production, KRS’ rap crew) are just about gettin’ paid?’ And now he’s telling people to boycott my album, dirty, and telling people not to get paid off rapping.”
“It’s like snitching, snitching in the worst degree, you feel me Dirty? He’s talkin all this stuff about me, telling people to boycott my album and and I’m the one out there doing charity work, and on top of that my tracks weren’t even about him. Why would I diss KRS-One for no reason, dirty? He’s a legend and I have the up most respect for him for what he’s done for the music, but right now he’s snitching.”
