acknowledging your inspirations wouldnt takne ANYTHING away from the impact and quality of the album. telling people you were listening to a lot of Techno before you made it wont change how good it is.

he made some comment around the time "get ur freak on" (sidebar: Miss E is SOOOO slept on as an electronic/hiphop hybrid album) and "ugly" came out that despite the obvious influence he had never listend to a drum and bass song. smh.