DX: Listening to your album Below the Heavens took me back to similar situations that I went through and I’m sure it had a similar effect on others who’ve heard the album. Do you have any stories of fans coming up to you telling how much your music touched them?
Blu: Yeah, man. I’ve had some extreme stories from that album. That’s really some shit that fucked me up just how touched people were from certain songs on the album. Like they’d be going through real, real serious shit in their lives and would be like they were listening to the album to help them get through it. And I’m like, "Nigga, you’re going through way harder shit than I was ever going through." I remember this one time where this chick was deaf man. And she’d told me that she would put her hands on the speaker when her friends would play my music and the vibration from my music was like no other. So she felt like she was obligated to send me a message and tell me that.

DX: Damn…
Blu: Yeah. I had to show that to my moms. That was a crazy one.

DX: What were you going through that made you write “Dancing in the Rain?”
Blu: “Dancing in the Rain” is exactly what I was going through when I was going through it. I had a lady and I was working and shit. I was trying to rap and trying to keep up rent. But I just got frustrated. It was almost like demeaning. I felt like I put 75% of my life into this and it doesn’t do anything for me. I was talking to my boy the other day and I asked him how long he had been working at his job. He said a year, and I asked had he gotten a raise and he said, “Fifty cents.” And I was like all you’ve gotten from a year at your job was a fifty cent raise? That’s like wasting your life you know what I’m saying. Just do something you want to do. Fuck a job. Fuck having a little bread right now. Bread is going to come at whatever you do. If you want the bread, the bread is there. Niggas make bread. It’s paper. Make some fake bread. [Laughs]