In this short talk at the 2011 Red Bull Music Academy, he reflects on going from stalking rappers on Twitter to being on the receiving end of calls, the joys of flipping the same sample over and over again, and how he’s now trying to dodge the legal bullet by recreating the sounds himself.

Hardly known a year before, Clams Casino finished 2011 as the name on everyone’s lips. His work with A$AP Rocky pushed him there, but before that he’d been making beats for the hyperactive Lil B, including the anthem “I’m God,” which spawned an entire subgenre of people sampling the same Imogen Heap track.