I don't see the tributes stopping. It's like with Marvin Gaye. People keep bringing him back, to keep him alive.

A lot of hip-hop fans resented them for being the token hip-hop group that was representing hip-hop culture to the mainstream. It wasn't their fault; they're just an accessible, easy-going group that started making really good pop music and was celebrated by everybody after they added Fergie. But there was a lot of resentment and hate.

He didn't come across as a thug or as someone looking for trouble. He was a nice, articulate and charming guy. ... Local scenes in rap can be really fragmented but this may cause people to band together.

He's made a habit of rapping on his artists' records in the hopes that this will jump-start their careers - and it does draw immediate attention - but that's just a shortcut. He'll need to do real artist development to ensure these guys have actual long-lasting careers.

He's made a habit of rapping on his artists' records in the hopes that this will jump-start their careers — and it does draw immediate attention — but that's just a shortcut. He'll need to do real artist development to ensure these guys have actual long-lasting careers.

People came in so compromised that it was hard to reverse their condition, ... We lost people that under normal conditions would not have died.