Me: Where was Fakts One last night?

Lif: He has been off the whole tour. He just had a baby boy about a month ago.

Me: As far as the role of the DJ in traditional hip hop, he has been the center. I feel like on Black Dialogue you guys refocused attention to Fakts One. I was wondering if that was a conscious effort or something that just ended up happening?

Lif: I think a lot of people nowadays downplay the role of the DJ as a legitimate member of the group. We didn't want that to happen because all three of us very much made the record. Plus, we made that whole album thinking in terms of performance so we tried to communicate it like we would if we were on stage. And he is our friend and made some good contributions to the record.

Me: Each of you have had individual projects so as you work as a group do you synthesize your work or do you separate yourself from your previous careers?

Lif: We are just individuals working as a group; everyone brought their own expertise to the table. We decided right off the bat that we didn't want to sound like anyone's sole careers; we wanted it to sound like a Perceptionist record. We all selected the beats together and decided what we liked…we were very much focused on making a sound of the group, not having it sound like any of the individual work.

Me: Do you think that since you are so open about your political beliefs within your music, do you think that talking about politics as a band makes you a political band?