I signed with Kanye back in 2003, and at that time, 'The College Dropout' hadn't even come out, so he was still relatively unknown compared to where he is now. He wasn't a household name; people were still calling him 'Kane.'
I've kinda been an off-Broadway sensation. There aren't a lot of lights or big marquees around my name or my work, yet my core audience knows exactly where I am.
We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression.
That was the crossover line for us, to be able to play that many shows, sell them out real quick and have that tribe queue up outside and still be a mystery to everybody else.
I feel like artists like Three 6 Mafia and 8 Ball and MJG reached a point in their careers where they were hot and underground.
How big can you be if just the underground niggas know you? You can't buy your mom a house when you just an underground celebrity.
(Rush are) like the JD Salinger of Canadian Prog Rock
