know what would happen once it came out but i know that was the whole plan, was to change everything, because that's what i had to do or if you wanted to come out with a record at that time if you wasn't going to make a change, then you failed, you know? it was that serious at that point in time. so, i was inspired by everybody from ice cube and dr. dre to big daddy cane, so on and so forth. so i was trying to bring that -- that thing to the forefront because it was kind of from my side of town, new york, it was kind of like not fading away but it looked like -- it didn't look that strong at that point. so my whole plan was to come back with that. >> let me ask you something, because we talked about 1994 and there was a dichotomy, east coast versus west coast, southern regional hip-hop which