How’s the tour going? The tour is cool. It has its ups and downs, but as a whole if I look at it as if it’s bad or good it’s been good. All of the shows have been cool. With Prince Paul I’m learning a lot and I get a chance to be with somebody [cont.]

Tell me about the new Hit Squad? Well the new Hit Squad is PMD, Don Fuquan who’s from the lower east side in Manhattan, and 275 are from Dayton Ohio. All my groups that I work with I ran into them on the road while I was doing a show. So what’s special is that [cont.]

HipHopSite: What has changed now where you don’t see yourself participating in any organized battles anymore? Brother Ali: First of all I never won them, ha ha. That had a big part to do with it. What I really realized over the course of doing that is that I’m not a person that’s able to [cont.]

Tell me a little about the “The Lost Freestyle Files.”  It seems like a good sample for the fans before the real album comes out. It’s a collection of freestyles from throughout the years that [I've] done on the radio in conjunction with a few written songs. It’s going to be a good sample that’s [cont.]