He eventually became involved in the crack game, landing in a hospital with a .22 slug which went through his lung and lodged in his back, coughing and swallowing blood. It was Sen Dog and DJ Muggs who saved his life and got him reconnected to his lyrical muse. I felt like I owed Sen and Muggs my life. In person, B-Real is articulate and persuasive, his argument losing nothing in logic, even as he puffs on a spliff that has your trusty journalist craving a Twinkie with a Snapple chaser. I believe they're a part of our audience.
Music is music.
If you can relate to it, then it's a part of you. And our music relates to an audience in the same way that a Nirvana or Hole does. In other words, you're not trying to cross over. Even as there are certain factions of the hip-hop world that think you're turning your back on them. But we didn't do that.