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I’m still a hip-hop producer. I never put a label on what I can do as a producer or a DJ.

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I’ve been doing it since I was prepubescent when I loved to scratch records and play good music. As it happens, you know I sort of fell into the mix. I really feel like I played a role in bringing dance music to America years ago.
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When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.
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A few guys will get up there with turntables as purists, to play vinyl or whatever.
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I worked with him for years. I still think Kanye [West] is one of the most important people in music in the last ten years.
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Important Music Myself People Thinking Worth
Right now it feels like we’re playing a role, like me and a couple of my friends, in where popular culture is going. That’s a very rare thing in a person’s life to be able to be a part of that. It’s a responsibility I take seriously.
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There’s a ton of amazing music that’s not getting heard.
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It’s always important to me to play something other DJs aren’t playing.
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Building the scene, going out and doing shows and connecting with the fans, cultivating the fanbase in all these cities. I’m very glad that it’s happening.
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I think whether dance music had exploded in America, I still would’ve been a DJ a long time. This is my first love.
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Dance Explode Music Myself Thinking
That was my challenge then, how to make scratching still fun for someone who didn’t necessarily come to hear that. It was fun to develop that technique. And now in dance music – I’m still a hip-hop guy at heart, but I love dance music.
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I’m one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I’m the only DJ that’s scratching.
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At festivals you kind of have to play the game a bit and you have to play a lot of the big bangers but it’s to me it’s extra gratifying to be able to play the non-bangers and make it work. Because that’s still the craft of the DJ, I think.
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It’s a good feeling to have something to stand for in any part of your life. It’s like personal integrity.
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There’s a lot of producers that are much more technical or gear-skilled than I am. But I have a pure idea of what I like and where I want to go and I follow that.
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I love disco and we sample it a lot for Duck Sauce. For me, that sound is kind of a new manifestation.
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That’s what a DJ is at the end of the day – someone who leads where the music goes. The only thing that’s changed is that in America, people have woken up in the last few years and realized it.
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I’m still a hip-hop producer. I never put a label on what I can do as a producer or a DJ.

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