With rap music, there are billions and billions of samples that are uncleared that people have never been bothered about on an underground level.

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.

With rap music, there are billions and billions of samples that are uncleared that people have never been bothered about on an underground level.

The goal for me is, I build the record that I put out as one individual song. Even though it's broken up into tracks, to me it's like one hour-long piece of music. In assembling the whole thing, I'm really thinking, okay, it's gonna end here, it's gonna start here, and I kind of have the idea of the journey.

A lot of times people have issues with me because they don't understand where I'm coming from and haven't seen the years and years of hard work and shows I've played.

Fair use is a part of United States copyright law. You don't know if it falls under fair use until you go to court. Someone has to sue you and then you have to challenge it.

I wasn't trying to make a following. I was just trying to make interesting music. That's not being modest, that's just being realistic.