How are things going at Def Jam?
Good. I’m still under the same contract I was under five years ago when I signed with Dame Dash. Even though they left, I’m still with Jay. What’s your relationship with Dame Dash? It’s a known fact that I hate Dame. I don’t hate him as a person. I hate the way he steered our careers. The direction he tried to steer us in, he tried to steer us off course. He did a lot of things wrong and he did a lot of shiesty shit with money and contracts. He did a lot of low-budget videos and wasn’t distributing the music right and wasn’t cutting checks. He did a lot of things wrong. I’m happy to be away from him. How did your song with The Roots, “Long Time,” come about? Black Thought. That was all his work. Black Thought is like a blessing to me from God. At my weakest point he pulled me in. They already had the song constructed. I just put my 16 bars in the middle and Black did the rest. They invited me to the session to listen to beats. They gave me two songs to pick from. I liked both songs, bu
