That's something I've always been down with: creative commons and people being able to license their music and allow other people to reuse it and recycle it.

Something that distinguishes my solo work from normal rap production is that it has a lot of melody - it's not just cutting up a song and having someone rap over it.

It's easy to hate on things that are close to your world that aren't exactly what you're doing.

When I would play pop music at underground shows, it was offensive to some people. I wasn't doing it to piss people off: I just didn't believe in those strong divisions that you're supposed to listen to this or that.

When I was 18, I was playing to 18 to 21-year-olds, and then, when I was 25, still playing to 18 to 25-year-olds. As I've gone on, the crowd has gone in both directions, both younger and a little older now than it's ever been. It is an interesting thing to hit 30.

I think some people form the traditional DJ worlds misunderstand where I'm coming form.

The traditional DJ world isn't a world that I come from.