... we're ingesting everything at the same time.

Sure.

Because being that we have immigrant parents, no one's w- no one was listening to funk at home, so we didn't have a sense of chronology.

And when you actually listen to them back to back, "More Bounce to the Ounce" and Kraftwerk sounds just as modern as Dr. Dre anyway.

So it d- we didn't really have a hierarchy between the two.

We loved both, and we listened to both.

So then, uh, we have a little high school band, and we were playing funk music and incorporating hip-hop elements and so on and so forth.

Uh, Hiroshi Sato.