How long have you been rapping?
I found out that I could rap my junior year in high school. There was this kid that let me hear a song that he recorded. It was over the Mobb Deep "Quiet Storm" instrumental. I heard it and I was like, "Damn!....I wonder If I can do this". So I went home and started writing and writing....I slowly started to improve and I was getting better at it.

Who are some of your Musical Influences and why?
2Pac definitely has to be one of my main musical influences. Pac touched and reached so many people and It's easy to understand why. He could trigger any emotion in you with his music. He could be deep, he could have fun, he could show his true feelings. He wasn't afraid to let it all out. Eminem is definitely up there, too, for a lot of the same reasons as 2Pac. Eminem put his personal life out there for EVERYBODY to see. Everybody knows Haile, everybody knows Kim. A lot of people don't know this, but Staind is a big one for me, too. Staind is REAL deep. Aaron Lewis is one of the greatest songwriters out there right now. Missy Elliot and Ludacris, they are original and know how to have fun with music, they give it their personality and make it real entertaining. Biggie for his wordplay and flow. B.I.G has to have one of the best flows in Hip Hop. I listened to a lot of Bone Thugs N Harmony growing up. I'm from Cali so you KNOW Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg are up there, too. DJ Quik, one of the BEST producers out there. There's too many musical influences to name....and of course all the Latin Rapper that kicked in the door for other Latinos to do their thing. Big Pun, Fat Joe, Cypress Hill.....I know theres more, but I can't think of them all.

How did you get your name.....Pinokit?
You know, It's funny because that actually just started out as a joke....One day back before I even started rapping, I was kickin it at my homies house. We were talking about Hip Hop and what our "rap names" would be If we were ever rappers. I had NO idea...I couldn't think of anything. So I said, "I'm gonna pick up this newspaper, close my eyes, and put my finger on something, whatever I put my finger on, THAT'S what I'm gonna go by." So I closed my eyes, put my finger down, opened my eyes and saw the name....AUGUSTO PINOCHET. I didn't know who he was at the time, but it turns out he was a dictator in Chilie. I didn't like the name PINOCHET so I switched it up to PINOKIT to make it my own. I just liked the way it sounded, It has a certain ring to it....It's pronounced PIN-UH-KIT.