Earl Sweatshirt and MIKE reflect on rap's enduring nature, with MIKE calling it "the world's longest conversation." Earl adds that rap was "the first genre that said, 'We got room for everything.'" He calls rap "the number zero," adding "you can multiply it, throw anything in it and it's just zero. It can be folk, it can be gospel, it can be anything. It's forever."⁠ ⁠ In the new interview with Dazed, the pair also address the personal connection they found in each other's work early on, and how their mentorship dynamic has shaped their respective careers within experimental hip hop. MIKE frames their musical similarities as "being a part of a lineage of musicians and people that tell stories in a similar way.⁠"⁠ ⁠ __⁠ 📝 (slides 1,2,4) by Solomon Pace-McCarrick for @dazed #pigeonsandplanes #earlsweatshirt #mikelikesrap #mike #dazed