When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.
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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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When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.
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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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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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I think one of the biggest things that’s changed in terms of the rapport with the crowd is that now crowds come to hear our songs. We’re getting closer and closer to an artist performance.
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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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A few guys will get up there with turntables as purists, to play vinyl or whatever.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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There’s a ton of amazing music that’s not getting heard.
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