Before dropping his “Professor @ Large” album on June 26th, Complex caught up with Large Professor to talk about his dealings with Nas, Big L, Erik B & Rakim and more. Large Professor’s resume’ speaks for itself and for those who are not familiar with him or his work, this sit down interview he did with Complex is the perfect read for you. An excerpt from the interview is below, read full story here.

Eric B. and Rakim were professional, but I was coming on the hip-hop B-Boy tip, where everyone would come to one dude’s house and DJ. I wasn’t on the professional side, like, ‘Show me the contracts.’ I was just in there doing beats. I had no contractual obligations with Eric B., because that’s who had me in there. On the strength of Paul C, I was in the studio. It wasn’t like, ‘You’re going to get credited for this and that.