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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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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 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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I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren’t necessarily trying to hear that all the time.
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One thing that I learned in recent years from working more with other people is this idea that part of a producer’s job is to make people comfortable and confident.
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There are things I like, there are things I strongly dislike. In my DJ sets and in my production I just gravitate towards what I like.
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I have a radio show on Sirius XM. I put it up as a free download on my Soundcloud and on iTunes. That’s a portal for me once a month, to play songs I know aren’t getting played on that station the rest of the week.
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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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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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At the end of the day, Fool’s Gold is a label that, when I hear something I like, I try to grab it for the label. There’s a ton of great music coming out.
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The essential component of being a DJ is setting the mood; it’s playing to the context. So that if you’re not able to adapt from one context to another, then you’re not a DJ.
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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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We have to wake up early and make songs everyday. I run my record label. You work at hours where your body isn’t designed to work. But it’s fun.
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I’m not even a trained producer. I just keep following my ear and working on stuff until it sounds the way I like it.
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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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I’m one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I’m the only DJ that’s scratching.
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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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