Yella was a friend of Pebo’s. He knew of him from the Wrecking crew and worked with them on a project at JDC Records. We discussed his addition to the project and brought him to my garage studio -- he was very cool and mellow and had great ideas. Alien Wizard was a street name that Kid Frost had given me because I was always twisting sounds around and Kid Frost thought they sounded spacey. Ice-T had also given me a street name, he called me “Davy PhD”. This came from my background in electrical engineering and my consistently pulling electronics apart in the studio – Also, Ice-T would ask me to come be present whenever we negotiated with lawyers because as he put it “Dave speaks Caucasian”! It was nice to feel needed.