With his highly-anticipated new album Legends Never Die set to hit stores on April 30th, legendary rapper R.A. The Rugged Man is back in the spotlight. Recently Hopsin and his Funk Volume compatriots Jarren Benton, Dizzy Wright, SwizZz, and DJ Hoppa met up with the Rugged Man and spoke on his influence. “This guy’s a legend. I get excited meeting the people I grew up l listening to,” says Benton. “He’s basically one of my biggest influences,” adds Hoppa. Hopsin and R.A. also spoke on “Underground Hits”, their “crazy, wild, raw” collaboration off Legends Never Die, and touched on the internet haters who think the legend and the new school star shouldn’t work together.