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Beat / I read an interview with Rakim, where he said that he‘ll sometimes listen to John Coltrane or other instrumental music and draw something from their flow for his raps. Do you think that‘s happening with you too?

Yeah, for “Melt my Eyes, Listen to the Future”, Marvin Gaye helped me out. I remember that when I was making the song “The Last”, I was listening to Marvin Gaye‘s “Trouble Man”. And even though I already had created a list of different genres that I wanted to integrate for this project, topicwise, I resonated with What‘s Going On as well. Because what he was making on that album was related to the state of the world the way he was looking at it. How every track tied in with every other one made it great. When you