DX: Why did you leave then?
DD: The direction that Bad Boy was moving in I wasn’t comfortable in and in order for me and Puffy to remain friends, as I have heard all the war stories about the people who have left Puffy, they wrote books about him, they call him names, they bash him on TV and that has never been my [attitude]. He is one of the greatest people to enter the entertainment industry and he has given so many blacks, whites, Puerto Ricans and Asians and all different people the opportunity to live their dreams and succeed and I was one of them. I just so happened to be one of the people that took it to another level to make it more beneficial for myself with the publicity and the fame and financially. Right now, Puff and I going into our forties, it is about time he found a crop of new guys but I will admit it is very hard as our history travels with us, and for all the people that walk into those studios, they look for D Dot, they look for Mario Winans, they looking for Stevie J, they looking for Nasheim and what they don’t realize is that those guys aren’t there anymore and it takes a little bit of the luster away. It takes away some of the excitement. The stars were lined up perfectly, we had Biggie, we had D Dot, you had Puffy, you had Mase, Black Rob, Faith [Evans]. We had incredible artists, incredible production teams and incredible timing.

DX: Do you see history repeating itself?
DD: Well I hope to keep records like that, you know with "Brooklyn Let’s Go" and I am working with Lil Kim, Akon, I have movies coming out.

DX: Well you are the music supervisor right on the Biggie movie right?
DD: I am the music consultant on that which is coming out in 2009 and I am also working on the new Terrence Howard soundtrack, for a movie called Fighting. I just produced a song for Jim Jones featuring Styles P [click to read] which is coming out, and I just produced a song for Akon’s new group called Rock City [click to read], which my partner manages. We used to manage this artist on Jive called Noah, and then he found Rock City, who I produced a record for called "One More Time" which is coming out on their new album.