Trugoy the Dove (De La Soul)

Oh, man.

Fonte asks, ask about the responsibility of ownership.

Everybody says own your masters, but very few could pull off the campaign that you guys have been doing with your catalog.

Mm-hmm.

What's the importance of owning?

Well, it's intellectual property, man.

It's like owning a house.

It's something that actually can feed your family for years to come.

Once you learn about

the business of intellectual property, you need to know that you need to own at least a portion of it.

You know what I mean?

Sure.

You know, granted, in the world of doing business, when people are

offering their money up for your dream, of course they want a piece of the pie, you know?

So you have to be very conscious of what you're willing to give up or not willing to give up.

But owning your masters and your publishing is very, very important.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

Rapper Big Pooh, also from Little Brother, I thought had an amazing question.

He said, ask them, how does a group survive over three decades with no separation, no public fallouts, especially in an industry that was designed for groups to break up in the early 2000s, choosing to only focus on the stars?