Sample clearances and roll-out plans is what separates mix-tapes & albums.
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.
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.
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.