It’s was like, ‘They are the best in the world.’ That’s how we were looking at them. Cormega, Nas and Tragedy, they were like celebrities. Just looking up to them and seeing how they were rhyming-they were like superstars before Illmatic even came out before Juvenile Hell before The Infamous.

We had guys from our Queensbridge neighborhood like Nas and Cormega, and they were a big inspiration. It was either do or die…it was, Do you want to do this as a career or what? It was time to step up and prove ourselves. This is what we are trying to do with our life. We really got our heads together like, You know what? This can’t happen again. It was like, ‘Fuck ‘em!’ So we were like, ‘Wow, we have to take this seriously.’ That really hit us hard when that happened. We got a phone call while we were doing a show saying, ‘Yeah, they dropped y’all.’ It was like, ‘Wow…Okay…they just dropped us?’ It was crazy. When we got dropped, we didn’t even know it was going to happen. Where the hell are we going to get our beats from?’ It pushed the creativity out of us. We were pushed into a corner like, ‘Damn…we don’t have no other choice. Because we really couldn’t afford the production from other people that we wanted it forced us to make our own beats. But DJ Premier and Large Professor were the ones that really stepped in and said, ‘We got y’all.’ So I guess they heard the music and they felt our vision. There were a couple of different other people that we really couldn’t afford what they were charging. We were trying to get Pete Rock for the first Juvenile Hell album. Preemo ( DJ Premier) was one of the only that we could afford. It’s a serious business because there are people that are ready to snatch your spot from you at any moment. We didn’t understand the importance of mastering the craft and the business side. We didn’t understand the importance of longevity and saving money. , we wanted some gold teeth we wanted to buy some leather jackets…I got a $1000 in my pocket. So we were different like how we carried ourselves and how we were moving around and our slang the way we dressed…the little trends that we created. The things that we were doing the people that we went to school with and hung out with 80 percent of them was not doing what we were doing. “I knew that had something different than everybody else because our lifestyle was different.

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