Sublime

But after Dilla’s passing I couldn’t imagine going back to the sound of Things Fall Apart. It was too fraught, too sad, too connected to the admiration I had for him. He was my idol, and I didn’t want to make my mark in his shadow, or in his absence.

Justin Timberlake and Robert De Niro were the guests on our first real show. Once again, this was a stroke of brilliance from Lorne: he booked De Niro because he wanted a very difficult guest interview for Jimmy. He knew that the press would be relentless regardless, so he figured that he might as well give them a reason.

I think that my creative identity is unquestionably made up of parts of other people’s creativity. I have lived my life being referential and reverential.

I remember once, when I was a kid, hearing Johnny Winter singing “Tired of Tryin’ ” with Muddy Waters on guitar, on the Nothin’ but the Blues album, and hearing him sing and liking what I heard and then looking at a picture of him on the album and double-taking, maybe triple-taking, and then wondering what it meant to be black (or white, or albino)

Game Theory had recharged us somewhat, especially since we felt that we were making our music for a label that unconditionally supported our vision. As we started to collect material, it became apparent that we were headed in an explicitly political direction. It would have been hard to avoid it, frankly. It was the end of 2007, and we were shootin

I really didn’t have an agent until Michael; I just had a lawyer, Bert Fields.