That’s kind of what Supreme’s mantra is: “We don’t care about what anybody thinks, we just do our own thing.” That definitely speaks to what you guys were doing for hip-hop. It meshed with their message.

Yeah, I guess. You know, Supreme is like any other company. They deal with who’s hot and who they can make the most money off of, but they still charge me for sneakers every time I want some Supreme Jordans or if I want an item from Supreme, you know? They might give me a discount, but they ain’t throwing nothing at me. So, it’s the same difference. We might’ve had the hottest T-shirt they ever did, but they ain’t paying homage. The way I take is that it was a business deal. It was great for the moment but I ain’t get no residuals off of it. You know what I mean? They ain’t paying me no money off of each shirt that they sold, so it is what it is.

How did you guys feel like the photo came out? Were you happy with it?

I mean it was just a regular photo shoot. Some young ass kids, with some big ass shirts that says “Supreme” on it. But to tell you the truth I didn’t even like the T-shirt they gave us. The way it fitted was good but they was a regular, bulls**t $3 T-shirt with just some red and white print going across it that said “Supreme.” Their fitted was actually dope, though. The New Era fitteds that they had, they was really hittin.’ Our T-shirt was just dope because it was a dope visual of Dipset at that time. People love to see us jokin’ and it kind of embodied Dipset at the time; a lot of jewelry, ignorant—you could tell the ignorance through the photo. Pretty much the same thing that we do now, but we a little more mature with it.

Did interaction with Supreme and what you learned from Supreme inspire your skate team, Dipskate, at all?

Nah. It was a whole different thing. I wasn’t versed in the culture at all. I was versed with the making money off extreme sports ‘cause I always was a fan of riding BMX. Everybody used to do that when I was younger, racing and freestyling, playing on skateboards. As we were doing Dipset and started to notice the different cultures that were embracing us, we knew extreme sports was definitely one of them ‘cause a lot of the BMX kids tell us how influential our music is to them. I didn’t have no “in” on skateboarding and I didn’t have no “ins” on the BMX side. But one of our interns had a friend, and these guys were rollerblading at that time—rollerblading was kind of dope, or maybe not—but it was kind of popular for what it was doing. People would try and take it to different heights, so I took a stab at trying to grab onto something in the beginning of it. Dipset tried to give them a push, which it kind of did. If rollerblading would have got bigger, we might have been in the beginning of something dope. That was a stab at something.

What else do you want to say about Supreme or about the experience?

It wasn’t really no experience, but it was dope to be able to do something that kind of resonates in history. Especially for hip-hop culture and pop culture, period. People from all walks of the world appreciate that piece of art, that photo—not just on T-shirts—but the photo itself. And I’m grateful for the opportunity. I respect Supreme for what they’re doing. I continue to congratulate them on their success and you know, we here. Maybe we do a 10th anniversary picture all over again. That would be dope.