Life imitates art and back around.
I don't do albums for album sales. I just do it as a conversation piece and a business card.
I definitely try to go above and beyond with live mixing and scratching.
Especially in hip-hop, no one takes responsibility for their actions.
You got to have the right lawyer and good management. I went years and years without management and even a good lawyer; I used to handle contracts on my own, and it was definitely corners that they would cut. It wouldn't have happened if I had a good lawyer behind me.
When I made 'Detroit vs. Everybody,' I knew. I knew this for Eminem.
I come from a traditional hip-hop background.
I grew up in a city - it's called Lawrence, Massachusetts. It's about half an hour north of Boston. When my parents got divorced, I moved to New Hampshire because my father worked up there.
I kinda gave my childhood to hip-hop, literally. I didn't go to parties in high school. All I did - well, I was DJing parties in high school.
I started radio, actually, when I was 13. I started DJing when I was 13, but later in that year, I started a high school station at Phillips Academy. I didn't actually go there, but it was in the town I went to high school in. So literally, within six months of DJing, they started mailing me records; it was crazy.