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- Nov 07, 2020
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm quiet, so people might think I'm a mute.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a hermit, people rarely see me.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't do selfies.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I was trying to copy what I heard. Namely, I was just listening to producers I looked up to, like 45 King and Marley Marl, and trying to do what they were doing.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listen to a lot of different things. I'll be listening to prog rock, then the next couple of hours - Indian.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to challenge my ears. I get bored easily.
- Beats
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not anyone can rap to my beats.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I will slow down the beat for one bar on purpose, just to see if the rapper can adapt his flow and stay on beat.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I only work with versatile rappers, chameleons like Guilty Simpson, J Dilla, and Doom.
- Nov 07, 2020
I like my space.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as hip hop, I ain't even gonna front, it was 'Rapper's Delight.' That was the first thing I heard where I was like, 'Whoa.' You take that beat and do something over it. I started collecting records after that, old records.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I sample a song, I usually make samples out of the whole album. Then I move on after that. Doesn't mean I'm going to release that whole album, but I do that.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prince Paul's one of my teachers. He's always been one of my main inspirations as far as interludes go and getting a little quirky at times.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always done music with so-called thug- or gangster-type lyricists. I've always been associated with that because I'm from the West Coast.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My pops had me at the studio since I was born. That's why I got into music. He would let me go up on the controls and mess with stuff.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The iPad is the greatest thing as far as kids.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't talk in front of people.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get bored with music so I try to listen to things in different types of genre to see what's possible.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically my whole life is music, that's all I do 24-7.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll take two months off just to listen to records and not do any music so I can absorb all that and then when I go do my music. It's all in me. I'll listen to a different genre every two days or something, study it, 24 hours straight.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I search for records that I've found on YouTube. If I can't get the record it doesn't matter to me, I'll bump the YouTube rip.
- Dude
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a laid back dude, I don't really get excited.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of guys are influenced by 'Pinata.' I fathered a lot of styles off that album.
- Constantly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm constantly buying records.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family brainwashed me, like I'm brainwashing my children. They brainwashed me with good taste.
- Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dudes I work with have to be like-minded to where I just hand them a beat that has a chorus and they can do with them what they gotta do. If they can't do that, I usually don't work with 'em.
- Nov 07, 2020
You have to work how you work.
- Favorite Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Interviews are my least favorite thing to do.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do it for myself and for like-minded people. Half the time I don't know why I make what I do. I'd do this if no one was listening. I'm stuck. I've got the curse.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People only know me for what they've heard, but that only represents about 10 percent of what I've done.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a man of few words.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do a few shows every year, but I'm mostly at home, making music. Day and night.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied jazz at home with my grandparents. They always had jazz dudes at the house, but I didn't study formally. I just hung around a lot of musicians.
- Nov 07, 2020
I used to memorize music when I was real young. Schoolwork, not so much. But music I could remember.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not easy to sound like Dilla, but you can make beats like Dilla with your computer, so that's why everybody sounds like Dilla.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My computer? I never use a computer. It's too easy.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dizzy Gillespie would come by, eating gumbo. It was crazy. My grandparents were friends with all of them. Dee Dee Bridgewater, all of them, they'd come through.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020