In the fall of 2007 when the film "American Gangster" was released, it made an immediate impact at the box office. Grossing $130 million dollars the films' success was publicly credited for what is typically unfamiliar--its' musical score. I was young in my career and often wondered the impacted of music in everyday life--particularly mine. As fate would have it, a few months later the opportunity to travel to New York to sit down with Hank and Keith Shocklee presented itself. Hank and Keith two of rap musics most decorated producers, delivered life-long lessons as it pertained to my world of insight. With both men having been credited to the success of early rap groups like Public Enemy and the famous Bomb Squad, every nugget of information that they dropped was valuable. Fresh off producing the hit single "Do You Feel Me", performed by Anthony Hamilton, their ideas and thoughts spoke to my senses. Within that interview I learned every music...