Whats your relationship like with Fabrizio Sotti (founder of Koch Records)?
I respect his business mind and his musical space. He’s a great guitarist. He’s worked with all kinds of Grammy Award-winning artists. That doesn’t make his music better than someone else’s, but I respect his work. That’s how I was able to get Cassandra Wilson on my album, because he had produced her album. He’s a cool dude with a good vision who likes Hip Hop. He used to produce like Swizz Beatz and Puffy, but his ear is on the real shit, even though he tries to make himself commercially viable. I thought it would be a good match for us to do something that was real street with some real stringy guitars and to put it together. It’s probably going to throw off the radio a little bit. How is your solo album different from a DP album? I think a lot of people assume that me and stic are attached at the hip. However it seems, I just want people to know that the ideas that have come and that are related to dead prez are different from M1. The process of making the songs is different. When m
