it's a strawman argument because you're bringing up something irrelevant to the discussion.
you think people like nas, umar johnson, david banner, dikk gregory, paul mooney, shahrazad ali and frances cress welsing are giving their time and interviews for free?

why? why would that do that? how about you try to get those interviews setup and see if they'll do it out of the kindness of their hearts. what about the airline tickets, cameras, editting, copyrighted images, etc -- those are free as well, right?
why you dudes so quick to spend money elsewhere if you believe the HC series is something that's needed?