DX: A lot of freedom concepts on the album. Is there a political motivation in day-to-day life?
KS: Yeah…I don’t know about politically motivated. The struggle is around everybody. I’m motivated by the fact that things are really messed up right now and I want to do something about it as long as I’m alive. I feel like this gift put us here to make beats really, and we can use that in other ways…

DX: You’re also passionate about Palestine. What brought that on?
KS: Just the fact that they’re getting screwed over and nobody’s talking about it; it’s pissing me off. It’s probably one of the worst forms of oppression going on right now and everybody’s just accepting it as [though] it’s Okay? I’m not cool with that.

DX: Let’s touch up on the remixes for Common.
B: We made our own production under the acapellas that were already out there.

DX: Why choose Common?
KS: We just felt like he’s one of the people that people haven’t really done that [with] yet. And we’re huge fans of him as a lyricist. And we just thought that it would show – it’d be a good way to highlight our production skills.
B: And his song structure is –
KS: Unorthodox.
B: Yeah, and it’s also a challenge. Because a lot of his verses are not like…everyone usually does 16 bar verses and everything is structured in fours and eights. He does things a little differently; he doesn’t follow that so it’s kind of a challenge actually.

DX: Current trends in Hip Hop?
KS: I think slowly within the last month I’ve seen some good music coming out.
B: As a whole, the bar is very, very low.
KS: But in the last month though, change is coming up; and I feel like we’re at the forefront of it.

DX: In what way has the bar lowered?
B: A lot of things came together at the wrong time. The labels got a hold of it and kind of raped it and depleted anything that was worthwhile. The Internet came along – it’s good and bad. A lot of things just came together at the wrong time.

DX: You said the labels are the to blame; where are the fans in all of this?
K: That’s a good question. More so the labels, the corporations that are behind the labels but the fans – when you accept that…it’s just like whether you’re an activist, when you accept something, that becomes the norm. So if you accept people somewhere that are getting killed or you accept horrible music to be out there, you’re not gonna demand something better; you’re not gonna get anything better. So the fans are a part of it as well. Myself and Beatnick, we’re fans of the music. And as fans we said “what can we do?” Let’s put out an album rather than just me deejaying and him getting beats in the basement and talking about how good we are. Why don’t we just take it to the next level, move to New York, put out an album because the world needs to hear this? As fans, we would appreciate this. So that’s what fans need to do – do something about it.