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

When I started Fool's Gold and producing consistent records that were like electro beats with rapping on it that was experimental and weird. I made a mixtape called Dirty South Dance where I put rap vocals over dance music. That was literally an experiment. Now all these rappers are rapping on dance music. This is something I've been trying to build for a while.

One thing that I learned in recent years from working more with other people is this idea that part of a producer's job is to make people comfortable and confident.

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

What's amazing about a DJ set is when you're able to re-appropriate a song or give purpose to a song that people didn't really think it was supposed to have. Give it this sort of hidden power by playing it before this song and after that one. That it fits into this logic and it goes farther than you thought it could go.

I think whether dance music had exploded in America, I still would've been a DJ a long time. This is my first love.

I'm one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I'm the only DJ that's scratching.