I always loved music, it's like my soundtrack to life, so when I got a hold of my boys Roland dr-5 drum machine it was heaven. It was like I could write my own soundtrack. I copped the same one like a month or two later and from then it was on.
4. How would you describe your style?
I just try to make tracks you can feel. There’s beats, and then there’s music. I try to make music. I try to make trax that have a new sound to them. Something you wouldn’t have expected.
5. Who are your musical Influences? What do you like about their styles?
I listen to all types of music but some people who’s sounds have influenced me most are Just Blaze, Rodney Jerkins, Quincy Jones, Beethoven, & Vivaldi. All of these guys definitely have that music you can feel.
5. Do you tailor beats for artist and what is your process?
If I work with a particular artist it’s because
I see where there going and can vibe with them. I think my best finished material with an artist comes from starting a song from scratch with them and doin it the whole way through.
5. What is going on the Detroit area musically is there an outlet for artist music there?
There is crazy talent here, but not so much room to move on the business side of things. We’ve had some successful independent shit, but now it’s flooded with somebody on every block doin an independent thing, or a mixtape that never goes anywhere. That overflow is never good. Hopefully more people will link up and get organized cause it’s hard for people from outside our city to really identify our sound. Trust me we got a hott sound but people think since we’re in the Midwest that we have that sound. That’s not our sound.
6. What type of gear are you working with?
I use the MPC 4000 for all my sequencing, and I have a triton classic and a proteus 2000 sound module with mo phatt and x-lead expansion cards. I use a numark ttx turntable and do my recording into protools le on my pc. My monitors are M-Audio Bx8s.
7. If you had to name the hottest/Dopest Rap track ever what would it be and why?
That’s a hard question. I think I would have to say Renegade- Jay-z/ Eminem. There are a few hotter beats but as far as an overall song, it can’t be fucked with. I remember when it came out I was in the 11th grade and I remember thinking I hadn’t heard something that hit me like that in like a year or two.
8. What do you want people to know about you and your music production?
I want people to hear me. If they hear me, trust me they will feel me. I want people to understand I’m ready to take it to the next level. I’m ready to put in work and just as ready to learn. I know I’m good but I also realize I got quite a ways to go.
9. What is the next piece of gear or software you plan on purchasing?
The hottest keyboards out are probably the Motif ES and the Roland Fantom X. I’ll probably get one of those and upgrade my monitors from M-Audio Bx8s to Mackie hr824s.
10. Do you have tips or tricks that you use that you would like share with our viewers?
First off, just find your zone and go crazy. If you love this shit, you know that you don't have to try to do that. It just happens when you hear somethin you like. Change is necessary. To learn and to really grow change it up. Change the place you do tracks, change your sounds up, gear up, and work with different artists and producers. Everybody does shit different. There is no one right way with music. I get to a point about every 2 or 3 weeks where i can't do shit so I change somethin up. P.S. if you made a bunch of tracks with one piece of equipment never get rid of it, or trade it for somethin new, you will regret it later.
11. Do you use a lot of samples or do you play most of your tracks from scratch?
I use samples when I hear them, I dig hard for sounds, but I let the samples just hit me. It's part of that whole change up thing. A sample can really set somethin off because it forces you to build around it in ways you probably wouldn't have built it in the first place. Just sampling all the time and looping it the same way on every track is wack. I hear sample heavy beat cds from producers all the time and very few ever impress me.
12. What’s next for your music career?
A lot hopefully, i'm moving to NY to get an internship with a label, so I can get in the door and meet some people and see how things work. Shit is rough when it comes to makin moves and you can't get in the door just by walkin in, you gotta know somebody. I’m gonna set aside more time for actually making music, the same way an athlete sets up a training routine. I’m at an advantage though cause in this music shit for me there is no work, it’s all play. I love it all.
