I think if I wanted to get to a point where I could actually grow in my music, I had to almost step away from sampling so much and start making the kind of music that people wanted to sample.
I love tearing people's speakers up.
With some of the samples that I chose to use, tracking down the person that owns the publishing has become a task.
I worked on 'Cadillactica' with the mind to not sample as much and focus on creativity.
Sample clearances and roll-out plans is what separates mix-tapes & albums.
My grandmother introduced me to B.B. King. She wasn't someone who had a lot of posters, but there was a big poster of B.B. King on the wall as soon as you walked into her house in Meridian, Mississippi.
