DX: What else does 2008 hold for you?
AL: It’s been a great start to the year. We came in like a bat out of hell. We had The Wire party January 4, the first week of the year in New York. All the actors were there, our artists were there, other artists from Baltimore. We brought Baltimore into a posh, New York City Downtown club. They wouldn’t even let Omar in. [Laughs] It made "Page Six" [of The New York Post]. It was fucked up. That’s the sort of thing I’m trying to be this catalyst for in New York. It was a great party. I’m deejaying for Dizzee Rascal on tour. I went to the Grammy’s with Ronson and we did a party. I have a monthly party with Q-Tip in New York. We’re relocating. We’re trying to revive the New York Hip Hop thing, whether it be Futura's and the graffiti dudes, or Rakim and Kid Capri, it’s anybody that you idolized, getting to do something on a significant level with them.
DS: I'm working on two albums. I'm trying to do a DJ Khaled-type album. I'm really gonna put Baltimore on the map. Then I'm doing another album, the first soulful Hip Hop album. All subject matters is from the soul. Soulful things. Changing the spirit. This is for people who dug The Secret and Law of Attractions. It's gonna be hard, party, dance music, but it's gonna have that message in it.

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