As the times are changing, you don't hear as many sample issues with rap artists. Part of that has to do with production styles these days, but the nature of copyright is also changing as the internet becomes more of a giant.

I can't edit live as meticulously as I can for an album.

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.

I've always enjoyed taking pre-existing sound, songs I like, songs I want to share, and manipulating them and trying to do my own version. So just knowing there's that potential for that thing out there that I haven't discovered yet, really gets me motivated every day.

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.

I feel like all the artists that I really love, they've had a strong contingent of people who really hate their work as well.