He earned a spot on our roster and will be a tremendous complement to the young talent in our organization.

I didn't look at the market, I looked at our particular financial situation. I think everyone will look at this as a fair deal.

At some point, you run out of things you can do with your personnel. Sometimes it comes down to talent, and apparently we're not doing so well in that department right now.

[Ellin was looking for a rapper who had not yet made it, but had the talent to do so.] As we were writing that script, we thought it was going to be a nightmare if we didn't find anyone, ... We loved his charisma and personality.

You have to, that was a conversation between Mike and I, that we had to make the money work for both. You still have to try and get what fits your team but you have to make the money work on both sides.

It's really unfortunate for him, as a kid you hate to see that, it was an awkward type thing. He's out six weeks.