Forgot to point out a few parts that are worthy of discussion:

- he said Russell Simmons banned Def Jam artists from participating in Self Destruction and HEAL, although LL and RUN DMC both (partly) defied him

- KRS claims that he is responsible for the taglines of the Source ("Music, culture and politics") and XXL ("Hip Hop on a Higher Level")

- he says that after Sex and Violence flopped (because of the backlash against the PM Dawn incident) Jive said they weren't getting a return on their investment with him, so he said stop investing in me...and they did. KRS implies that this also meant they stopped investing in conscious music as a whole, fascinating to hear as it was 92' when the conscious style was (deliberately or not) pushed to the background never to reemerge with the same power again

- he explains that him rapping into the headphones on the cover of Return of the Boom Bap wasn't simply artistic, supposedly back in the day they would plug that into the mic and it would work, who knew?
Fascinating stuff.

Patrick