It's always important to me to play something other DJs aren't playing.

We have to wake up early and make songs everyday. I run my record label. You work at hours where your body isn't designed to work. But it's fun.

I'm still a hip-hop producer. I never put a label on what I can do as a producer or a DJ.

There are things I like, there are things I strongly dislike. In my DJ sets and in my production I just gravitate towards what I like.

When you know what you like and what you want and you're able to nudge things in the right direction, that's more profitable than ever, because there's so much information out there. Everything's saturated. Tastemaker is probably the most overused word, but I still think it's important.

I worked with him for years. I still think Kanye [West] is one of the most important people in music in the last ten years.

At the end of the day, Fool's Gold is a label that, when I hear something I like, I try to grab it for the label. There's a ton of great music coming out.