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.
A-TRAKWe 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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When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.
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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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A few guys will get up there with turntables as purists, to play vinyl or whatever.
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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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There’s a ton of amazing music that’s not getting heard.
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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 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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It’s always important to me to play something other DJs aren’t playing.
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