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When we were working on our album, Show had a place where he was living downstairs and Dres was living upstairs. I’ll give you a snapshot of a typical day: we’d be downstairs hanging out at Showbiz’s house – here’s another cat with millions of records, I couldn’t even tell you how many crates he’s got. So obviously we sit there, pass off ideas and pick his brain. We’d go upstairs, Dres got records…looking back, I mean you’d be sitting in Show’s house and who comes knocking on the door? Greg Nice from Nice & Smooth. Lord Finesse might come rolling through – this would just be a typical day. As far as the SP, ‘Cules pretty much just taught himself but when you’re around these guys it just rubs off on you. A good credit to Mister Lawnge – Mister Lawnge is a nasty beat-digger. These are the cats we rubbed elbows with. And of course the guy who’s a god in our eyes in DJ Premier – we would see him when we did some of our recording at D&D Studios, so he’s a very good friend of ours. It was just an amazing time. Gotta give credit to Buckwild, we would pass-off beat stories with him, trade-off records. This was the circuit that we came from. We’ve done shows and freestyled with Jay-Z before he was as big as he was, did a show with Biggie Smalls and Tupac out in Queens…we’ve pretty much done it all.