A lot of artists will just go out there without a clue. They asked all the right questions about how to really make it all work.

They are smart designers because they're into the business as well as the creative end.

They are not sacrificing their artistic vision. They are selling their art and people are buying it.

He is one of the more venerated artists. He is very well known in the hip-hop steam.

They are not only acclaimed craftsmen and artists in their own right, they are personalities on top of that.

It's my guess that those cutting-edge artists who attack tradition secretly believe tradition will survive to enshrine them as the wild and crazy geniuses who destroyed it