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I don't think Wolf made a conscious decision
to make it Madlib, you know
the producer of Stone's Throw
I mean he had other stuff coming out at the same time
It's just that you can't compete
with somebody that was making
five albums every two, three weeks or something, you know?
***, I'm here from seven to seven the next day, every day
I sleep like two hours, three hours
***, I'm a quiet dude
I hate people looking at me Know what I'm sayin'?
I don't like too much attention
I don't know him to be anywhere
but in his studio, creating
He's not concerned about how popular he's going to be
The money and the fame don't seem to be
the main reason why he creates
He creates to create
To just get it out of his system
Respect everybody that listens to my ***, though
You know what I mean? Otherwise...
I'd still be pumpin' it for myself, you know what I mean?
I got a call from J Dilla
He's like, "Madlib is killin' me right now"
I said, "Really?"
"Yeah, man, he's going where I wanna go
He does little nuances and tricks in his music
That like I know only I get
Like, even if I would play it for you,
it would go over your head
Madlib is talking to me and only me"
The purest, the greatest musicians come out of that environment
Also, just the struggle that we deal with in those environments
Where you're fighting, you're fighting for your freedom,
you're fighting for your economic equality
with your talent. That's all you got
There's no other chance right there
That pressure busts pipes
Something great
A rose is gonna grow out of that concrete
Dilla was definitely one of those roses
I'm talkin' business, you know what I'm sayin'?
This is for some career ***
I kinda introduced Madlib to Dilla
It's funny, I introduce Dilla to Madlib for the Lootpack album
and then I introduced Madlib to Dilla,
and Wolf and Madlib came out for the first time
and we were all in the studio
Ask Madlib to be conductor
House Shoes was there rollin' up the blunts
know what I mean?
My man walked in with the SP in the snow, J Dilla
- I can explain this. - Okay, come on man
I hope to win Madlib 'cause I love his work
I think you do this
It's like, I'm gonna tell you. Lemme tell you
Start from the beginning, come on
Yes. I wanna throw Madlib 'cause I love his work
Bought his records
When I first heard Lootpack went crazy
Okay, who is this cat
I actually got in touch with Madlib
Blew him out
Let's do an album or something
Let's do a EP or let's just mess the industry up,
know what I'm sayin'?
And hook up like that. Really do it
You know, Madlib really looked up to JD and JD looked up to Madlib too
so it was this real weird awkwardness when they met
they were in the studio and House Shoes is like passing weed around
Dilla's never been influenced by somebody so strongly as he was by Madlib