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Mix-tapes are something that have been going on for a while. They've been pretty important to hip-hop for the past 10 years. It's the way we advertise our music to the public for free.

I grew up a hip-hop kid doing mix-tapes.

The type of mixing that was out then was blending from one record to the next or waiting for the record to go off and wait for the jock to put the needle back on.

All I know is that when I mix to digital and when I mix to tape I compare them and the tape always wins out.

A lot of our tracks have sounded a lot better than I thought they would because of recording, mixing, and because I probably didn't hear it that way. I'm not a songwriter.

In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.

I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.

I try to listen to a lot of music when I'm in the mixing process of a record, when I'm in post-production and trying to get everything to sound a certain way.