Da Beatminerz

Right

... those two albums, you know? And especially, like you said, around that time between Beatminerz and, and even some, some of the Gang Starr stuff, like, that was what you did.

But once '94 was starting to creep in, that shit was, like, outta here, because you ain't wanna hear no Biggie over no damn jazz samples and-

Right

Like, they encouraged it around that time, so that's why we got so much of it, because they weren't playing hardball with samples and shit like that.

Right.

They wanted rappers to use it, because once the rappers is like, or producers started using it like Beatminerz and Q-Tip, um, Blue Note Records sales were down, but then they skyrocketed because all of this interest in their catalog.

Yeah.