Even at the point where you couldn't even find certain things you could just like, “let me just go to YouTube.” Pos: From the very beginning, if you could look at it as a search engine you'd be talking about Google, “like yo let me Google this,” so when it came to culture stuff in music, everyone went to YouTube. I can’t front on YouTube, I go there to play the records. When I get on one thing, then it's something that comes up that sends me down a rabbit hole of a bunch of other stuff that I'm not privy to. Maseo: YouTube helps me go down a rabbit hole. Tuma: Would you go on YouTube and listen to it? I love it when Pos brings back new music that I have never been tapped into because he was in another frequency. I never take that for granted and I always walk in like a student, because I'm a sucker for knowledge. It's a plus being Mase from De La because you learn the hidden gems from people who appreciate your presence and what you do. Making my way to the record store to hear diverse music. Being able to travel to foreign lands and having these different experiences, put my feet on the ground and seeing what every culture and club scene is like. Travel has been a significant part of my growth in my musical style as a DJ as well as a producer. Maseo: For me it's been being able to travel. How has YouTube influenced any kind of evolution of sound? Tuma: Mase, especially you being a DJ, how has your sound evolved over time? I know the answer but I want to hear from you. Maseo: Music has been just as informative as books and movies - if not more. That is always very pertinent in our lives, man, learning, information and if you're providing it and if you're willing to listen and gather it, it can help you. It's there for everyone to be able to put egos aside and just be lovers of music and you can turn and me and Mase be like, “yo, that's dope,” and he’d be like you'd be like, “yo, who's that?” And you Shazam it and it's some young dude. It's there for whether it's Gunna or for Big Daddy Kane. Even us as elders, if we're willing to realize that we can always remain to be a student, you can learn from some of these young students. Music is the same way, when you learn about it, music is there for you, it's a jewel to capture and you be like wow, you just get motivated. If you learn about your past you can add it to your present, which then helps your future. Tuma: We’ve had four or five generations of hip hop, how do you think the multi-generational approach to FIFTY DEEP can help inspire other generations? It's just being real about how you presenting it from your own yard. The authenticity of it is even presenting it the way they grew up, love it or hate it. Not trying to be New York or let alone not even trying to be Black, just being in German, not even trying to be American, it's just doing hip hop from the land they learned it from. But not only that, watching them adopt the culture but actually implementing it their own way… conversing the culture through their own culture. Starting to experience all these different regions doing their own version of hip hop, you know, going to Germany and Amsterdam and meeting the Stieber Twins, and they just as big as Run DMC in America, or even going to meet Cora E, who’s just as popular as Queen Latifah but just in her region. Maseo: I gotta agree with Pos, even to add on. We immediately saw that expansion from ‘89 and we continued to see how the world loved what the Bronx was doing, what Queens was doing, any part of the States and they took it and then they kind of got wise and said, “but yo, you know what, let's build on what we're doing.” They were all loving and consuming this culture at the same rate and understanding how to apply it to what they saw. We started traveling all around the States, saw people in Paris or Nice within France or Berlin, Cologne, and Hamburg in Germany. As much as we were fans of the culture and what we did within that culture, once we came out as artists, we didn't just stay within New York. Pos: The expansion of hip hop - and I'm sure Mase would agree with me - it's something that we've been blessed to see just from the beginning of De La Soul. So first thing, let's talk about the expansion of hip hop globally and how important it is to be authentic and why that's always worked for you or if you don't agree, this is your time to say… Tuma Basa: FIFTY DEEP is multi-generational and you guys are mentors you are the cathedral.
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