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I'm a country boy.
I like showing versatility.
I'm not really a crying type.
When I was 19 I had a record deal.
Me and Tupac were long-time friends.
My musical knowledge goes beyond hip-hop.
I believe in karma; what you do will come back.
All music is good music, if it touches your soul.
I'm a very humble guy, but of course I think I'm dope.
Well, I've always held down Guru… His spirit knows this.
Guru's like Tupac. He just records and records and records.
I was a heavy kid, even though I was into sports and very active.
I'm a bass player and I'm a drummer - I'm a big fan of bass players.
I know what a Gang Starr album that's done is supposed to sound like.
I love heavy metal, Metallica. I'm into Jefferson Starship and acid rock.
I'm cool with Dr. Dre, I have his phone number, and he picks up when I call.
All my idols have been in the studio with me, because they wanted to be there.
I always followed my heart and if my heart said I gotta pack up and go, I'm gone.
I'm not a tough guy, but I'll throw down just like the rest of them if I have to.
I grew up in a town called Prairie View. It's like 45 minutes outside of Houston.
I've never sampled just one artist, I'm known for my reputation and my creativity.
I use whatever it takes to make the tracks identify what me and Guru are all about.
My crew used to listen to 'Taking It to the Top' by Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince.
I would always have turntable elements in my records even if it was just one scratch.
When I miss Guru, I bump one of our records. Then I shed a tear and get back to work.
If I feel like something needs to be updated, I'll break my neck to outdo the original.
If I gotta do a Jay-Z beat I want to stop everything. Tell everybody hold my calls, everything.
Everything I do is in a New York state of mind. I'm indebted to preserving the sound of the city.
I can't make the new generation like me, because they didn't grow up on me. So I stick to what I know.
Guru always titled the Gang Starr albums. But once it came to 'Hard to Earn,' he wanted me to title it.
That's the thing with social media: it's a gift and a curse. It's cool on one level, but it's also bad.
I've done some scoring in the past, but I want to get into it on a bigger level - a Danny Elfman level.
I'm a big rock 'n' roll head, I love country music, I love yodeling music. But I'm still black and funky.
Dre is someone I've looked up to since 1985 when he came to my college and performed with The Wrecking Crew.
A lot of Friday nights, Guru and I would go kick it with Biggie, since he was just three blocks down from us.
I'm real particular about delivery. You can write the illest rhymes in the world, but can you deliver it right?
I listen to my early Gang Starr interviews, I'm like, damn I was really trying to sound like a New Yorker then.
Everybody deserves a piece of where they live, in some type of fashion. Music is just my way of preserving that.
I think the fact that Gang Starr kept getting more and more successful was the reason we never thought about our age.
Jazzmatazz' was Guru's thing, but Gang Starr was his baby. I don't care what anybody says. That dude loved Gang Starr.
All the Public Enemy albums, I knew what records they were sampling but was like, 'How'd they construct it like this?!'
The majority of my life is spent doing nothing but godly things, especially when it comes to dealing with other people.
Bad Name' is just that head-nod, traditional loop over a breakbeat, chopped up, and it sounds like the way I do my thing.
When I got my knee replacement and I opened my eyes straight outta surgery, the first person standing there was Guru's son.
I'm passionate about music in general, not just hip-hop. But when it comes to hip-hop, I don't wanna see it die culturally.
I'm from the pre-Pro Tools era where you had to meet up with the artist and go over things if you wanted to record a track.
I'm not really a comparison dude. Even when people say 'Big or Pac?,' because they're two totally different types of lyricists.
Guru had such a different voice from most people. Plus he had a Boston accent! So, I always made sure the beats were tailored to him.
I don't shop beats. That was never my method coming up. I think it's very strange to have a CD of 30 or 40 beats and then just pick one.
It's whatever - people like me and Dre are music people, so we're beyond just hip-hop. We're purists. Not everybody who makes beats is a purist.