Not that there's anything wrong with that. You need to fight malaise and boredom in your core group of fans. But in the long run, yeah, you gotta capture new audiences.

Blaze or Kanye might offend some people's underground sensibilities, but you KNOW it would expand their audience even slightly.

But I think they can do a lot with 9th. He just needs to do more than pick dope beats -- he has to make a dope album. That means starting with a vision from day one, rather than throwing on random records until you have 12 bangers.