"I was like one of the first guys to actually put the vocals in the samples, you know what I mean? You know how Kanye done the vocal samples going through the hooks and all that?"

Ski was patient and kind in a 50 minute phone interview. After talking about producers and life, he talked about Jay-Z and the streets ("What it was, Jay was hustling on the streets, at the same time he was doing the fast rapping. And than Dame kind of took him to the side...").