Creator to Creators S3 Ep 18 BENJI CASINO

‘It’s Benji Casino music, ain’t nothin’ like it’By John HackerBenji Casino was in elementary school when he started making table beats in the lunchroomwhen he was bored.Now he produces music professionally that is like no other in the industry.Now his latest singles, “Mm Mm Mm” and “Moon Walking” celebrate and demonstrate hisstream-of-consciousness style of writing and cross-genre sound that define “Benji Casino music.”“When it comes to my song selection, if you listen to all my music, everything sounds different,”Benji Casino said. “There’s not just one sound. I did promo recently and I told the publicist ‘it’sBenji Casino music.’ It doesn’t sound like any other music but what it is. Only I can make musiclike this, it’s Benji Casino music.”And Benji Casino music comes from a unique headspace shaped by growing up in the city ofCleveland, then moving to rural Ohio.“I used to get into a lot of trouble up there so I moved out here,” Casino said. “It’s really in themiddle of nowhere, I'm not gonna lie to you. I grew up in the city life but then I moved out intothe country life and when I moved out here I found a different type of headspace, a morepeaceful, enlightened headspace. I got to thinking about my life and how I can do better in thespace that I’m in. I had to accept those and it just put me on a whole different plane.”The single “Mm Mm Mm” is a song with deep personal meaning to Casino.It’s a song about people who seemed to appear in his live when they wanted or needed something,but disappeared when he needed someone to lean on.The song talks about how the singer is looking for authentic people who really care for him.“At that time I felt like I had nobody,” Casino said. “And ‘Mm Mm Mm’ is the hook, mevocalizing is really just the hook and that’s how the whole song came together. I heard the beatand said ok, this is fire, let me really run this through the pro tools. I was singing Mmm Mmm,Mmm, and that’s where all the other lyrics came from.”The song ‘Moon Walking’ came from a stream of thought that came to Casino after a night ofheavy partying.“I got home and I heard the beat and said this is different,” Casino said. “It’s slow but it hits. AndI just started writing lyrics. Usually I don’t write songs but the way I see it, it comes how itcomes. Honestly, I just like going in the studio with no plans, nothing ready because that’s whenyou come up with the most authentic songs. You come up with stuff lime ‘Mm Mm Mm,’ youcan’t write shit like that down and deliver it the same way. But I do believe when it comes tocreative inspiration, it comes how it comes, it comes and it goes.”Casino said he’s working on an EP called “Perfect Timing” that will come out in a few weeks.In the meantime he encourages his fans to check out his catalogue of music and find the singlesthat touch them.“I believe with the music that I've already released there’s something for somebody,” Casino said.“You may not like ‘Choker Girls’ but you may like ‘Maria.’ I believe right now there’s so muchversatility across the whole catalogue there’s something for everybody. I know people in mypersonal life that don’t like certain songs but they like other songs. Benji Casino Music, what I'mmaking is me, it’s the things I go through, things that have happened in my life.“I want people to know that everything that’s been released on my catalogue I've done myself.Besides the beats, all the production was me. Everything sounds how it’s supposed to sound, Iwanted people to hear it how I heard it when it just popped into my head. That’s why everythingon my catalogue sounds different.”Please follow Benji Casino on the following social media and streaming sites:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2YYBrPq9TP9BiixpDdytSaApple Music: https://music.apple.com/ms/artist/benji-casino/1552612444Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benjicasino/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZoKxOsj3Dh_19mRMdTNYwgBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/creator-to-creators-with-meosha-bean--4460322/support.