records and take the label off? >> we put tapes on it or we soaked the label off. you know, you had spies in each other camps, trying to figure out what was their beat. i used to soak it up, put on tape to cover the records. and we was digging in the crates hard. >> you were unusually voracious in your musical taste. of all the records in the world, how did you come upon it? >> i came upon digging in the crate in the village. i said this is a type of weirdo here, and i took it home and heard the sound, and i said whoa, this is some funky hmm. man, some futuristic type of funk where they didn't know they were doing some style of funk. thus came the birth of the electrofunk sound. the miami base sound. and since the beginning we always play tribute to james brown, sly, the family stone. george funkadelic clinton for bringing the funk from which the hip-hop came, and to you know, all the pioneers of hip-hop.