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I'm all about the music.

Some people think I'm crazy, but I'm just a normal dude that loves music.

I'm quiet, so people might think I'm a mute.

I'm a hermit, people rarely see me.

I don't do selfies.

As a kid, I was trying to copy what I heard. Namely, I was just listening to producers I looked up to, like 45 King and Marley Marl, and trying to do what they were doing.

I listen to a lot of different things. I'll be listening to prog rock, then the next couple of hours - Indian.

I try to challenge my ears. I get bored easily.

I don't worry about collaborating. Whatever happens, happens.

Not anyone can rap to my beats.

Sometimes I will slow down the beat for one bar on purpose, just to see if the rapper can adapt his flow and stay on beat.

I guess I only work with versatile rappers, chameleons like Guilty Simpson, J Dilla, and Doom.

I grew up on Public Enemy, which had a message with great music behind it.

I like my space.

As far as hip hop, I ain't even gonna front, it was 'Rapper's Delight.' That was the first thing I heard where I was like, 'Whoa.' You take that beat and do something over it. I started collecting records after that, old records.

If I sample a song, I usually make samples out of the whole album. Then I move on after that. Doesn't mean I'm going to release that whole album, but I do that.

Prince Paul's one of my teachers. He's always been one of my main inspirations as far as interludes go and getting a little quirky at times.

I've always done music with so-called thug- or gangster-type lyricists. I've always been associated with that because I'm from the West Coast.

My pops had me at the studio since I was born. That's why I got into music. He would let me go up on the controls and mess with stuff.

The iPad is the greatest thing as far as kids.

I don't talk in front of people.

I get bored with music so I try to listen to things in different types of genre to see what's possible.

Basically my whole life is music, that's all I do 24-7.

I'll take two months off just to listen to records and not do any music so I can absorb all that and then when I go do my music. It's all in me. I'll listen to a different genre every two days or something, study it, 24 hours straight.

I search for records that I've found on YouTube. If I can't get the record it doesn't matter to me, I'll bump the YouTube rip.

I've got about three or four rooms of records, and two rooms of instruments.

If I'm really hyped to do something, I can do most of an album in a day.

I'm a laid back dude, I don't really get excited.

I think a lot of guys are influenced by 'Pinata.' I fathered a lot of styles off that album.

I'm constantly buying records.

My family brainwashed me, like I'm brainwashing my children. They brainwashed me with good taste.

Dudes I work with have to be like-minded to where I just hand them a beat that has a chorus and they can do with them what they gotta do. If they can't do that, I usually don't work with 'em.

You have to work how you work.

I'm usually bored with both gangsta rappers and underground ones, too.

Interviews are my least favorite thing to do.

I do it for myself and for like-minded people. Half the time I don't know why I make what I do. I'd do this if no one was listening. I'm stuck. I've got the curse.

People only know me for what they've heard, but that only represents about 10 percent of what I've done.

I'm a man of few words.

I do a few shows every year, but I'm mostly at home, making music. Day and night.

I studied jazz at home with my grandparents. They always had jazz dudes at the house, but I didn't study formally. I just hung around a lot of musicians.

I used to memorize music when I was real young. Schoolwork, not so much. But music I could remember.

It's not easy to sound like Dilla, but you can make beats like Dilla with your computer, so that's why everybody sounds like Dilla.

My computer? I never use a computer. It's too easy.

Dizzy Gillespie would come by, eating gumbo. It was crazy. My grandparents were friends with all of them. Dee Dee Bridgewater, all of them, they'd come through.

Past, present, and future is where I'm at.

Dilla was a John Coltrane-type dude. He was always on a higher level. He inspired my music to become looser and more soulful.

The equipment doesn't matter, it's the vibe you put into it. If the music sounds good, music sounds good.

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