Do you see the future of hip‑hop moving toward drum and bass?
No, I don’t really see that. I see drum and bass as its own genre; it’s a break beat, speeded up and chopped up. In hip‑hop, a break beat should never be chopped up. It’s all relative to the way you prepare it—the way you prepare the meal is how it’s going to taste. Hip-hop is hip-hop, drum and bass is drum and bass. You don’t use sampling on your albums. Why? We have used sampling on every record. But no record that we put out has been predominantly samples. Most of the time we are sampling ourselves. We will come up with an original move, play it, sample it and then loop it. The fact that we are able to play our own music brings a different flavor into the mix, kind of like the Beastie Boys do their shit, you know what I mean? So you tape yourselves jamming and then pick something out of that you like, loop it and make a song out of it. Exactly. When we do samples, we are sampling ourselves. That’s how we are still able to say we are 100% live. You also put a heavy emphasis on your l
