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Life imitates art and back around.
Gang Starr was like the blueprint of my career.
I want to do more R&B, more reggae, everything.
I've always been like the No. 1 Boston hip-hop fan.
Every person I meet is a rapper, DJ, or makes beats.
Sampling is very important for me. It's the backbone of hip-hop.
I learned so much from listening to Jay-Z, M.O.P. and Gang Starr.
When I made 'Detroit vs. Everybody,' I knew. I knew this for Eminem.
Way too many people are trying to do the same thing with their lives.
I definitely try to go above and beyond with live mixing and scratching.
My mother used to stop me from going to DJ battles. I'd, like, cry, get really upset.
I don't do albums for album sales. I just do it as a conversation piece and a business card.
I grew up looking up to DJ Premier, who would have the illest hip-hop joint on everybody's album.
Some artists send their verses, and others record in my studio. Depends. I prefer them being there.
Every record I make, I want people to feel what I used to feel when I used to crack open a CD and press play.
I had completely changed from being a mixtape DJ to being a producer and working with Nas and stuff like that.
Even when I have someone playing the song I give them the idea. I'm learning. I'm getting better over the years.
Brooklyn just got that energy to me that's so hip-hop and so New York City. You know, New York City is the grittiest city in the world.
With 'Ready to Die,' that was some of the most honest rhymes of all-time. There's some real dark material on there that Biggie was going through.
When I went to AI New England in Boston, I used to do my mixtapes, and honestly, if you look back at any of my mixtapes, every single mixtape tells a story.
I get mad if I'm not presented as an actual artist on tour. I don't want to be seen as just some DJ that plays between sets. I have a bigger brand than that.
I grew up in a city - it's called Lawrence, Massachusetts. It's about half an hour north of Boston. When my parents got divorced, I moved to New Hampshire because my father worked up there.
There are so many rappers now that it's cluttering our culture. 90% of the time at a show there are more artists in the crowd than there are fans - it's too much. Too many people try to give you CD's.
You got to have the right lawyer and good management. I went years and years without management and even a good lawyer; I used to handle contracts on my own, and it was definitely corners that they would cut. It wouldn't have happened if I had a good lawyer behind me.
I started radio, actually, when I was 13. I started DJing when I was 13, but later in that year, I started a high school station at Phillips Academy. I didn't actually go there, but it was in the town I went to high school in. So literally, within six months of DJing, they started mailing me records; it was crazy.