Oh, yeah Jia what do you do man? What is new? Yeah, sir The gate is just The greatness is I Let me just switch out the When I first met you I Around to the front going out that gate and down the stairs To the left Oh Yeah I don't know Oh You got All right, they want to step away Yo on this episode, man We got one of the hottest dudes in the city right now, man He doing this thing around the city if his name wasn't ditty This dude got to be the nicest on the dang on board nice is to record nice is to cook up man Y'all give it up to my boy slave y'all was good slave. What do you do man?
Yeah, okay, okay, yeah nice spring day is hot too. Yeah, it's hot your beats hot too Yeah, yeah, oh so tell the listeners a little bit about yourself show from Atlanta Yeah, okay, okay, so I start DJing I got a production Yeah back here I'm producing a engineer myself, so which one do you like more artists or producing? Or be there in the hand in the hand cuz I get to like make my beats and engineering It's the same everywhere. Yeah, no matter where you're buying which one do you like more?
Yeah, yeah, which one I don't say like whenever the other So so so growing up growing up Did you find out your dad with low John or did you know like oh this dude is significant in the music? I need to jump in this. Oh, no people always try to tell me That's your dad yeah Connected with me for a minute But yeah, then my guys like I hold you like I wear really good sports I shot a lot of sports for like I went my thing so some of the music that just though natural So what age did you know like music is my thing like I know my that was my dad's thing But this is my thing to when I when I actually started doing something I was gonna say like hobby Yeah, my dad gave me my first parents and was like For Christmas Did you stay if you stayed up all night on the I like to scratch a lot in general It's it sounds like a older hair talking about stuff like that, you know, there's no young folks Well, I mean there's a few and some like they'll probably exactly exactly exactly so you got to create you got to create a old old You know Vinyls to sit ready to ready to sample. Yeah, definitely look at my dad's my dad's when I can't I got my own Collection to yeah, yeah, so do you like sampling or how do you cook up?
I'm I don't just like try this when you away from sampling just like, you know, keep it original You know, so I was like what else you know, it's like, you know, he definitely taught me both sides of it It's like yeah, you know, just do your own thing, you know, make your own sounds just easier You know, you know, when credit and whatnot it's just I know it's over on that But I like to sample to I definitely else in my heart and with that sometimes, you know, you just got to do it I'm in front of it got to got to going that way about you know Sings 40 years old y'all y'all don't know that Hey, but you seem real cool, you know, and you know, I know your beats gotta head Yeah, yeah, they gotta turn them in like your pops got it So you see like a light ride to like car ride person. Yeah, I was a lot different stuff for sure though, but I Wouldn't say like That's my Yeah, that's my turn to tail pops. I'm building houses to tell them about I just graduated from construction carpentry school So, you know, shot me out where I it's like But yeah, man, so um Growing up musically, um who influenced you who's your favorite producer? My favorite producer.
Yeah Simple in for sure. I like JoJo Maraudie like a what's old. Yeah. Yeah I like a lot of that music that's that's yeah, I was in Berlin for a semester in school.
So They in Berlin a series about that train Because that same beat they seem like that beat that you know, it's a stick which yeah, that's a cool spot So they got like it's still like that but it's different I I like I DK right now. He got a hella dope beat by his beaters map buyers also like madly type of type of I I was a lot of that stuff out there money booker, you know, it's producing Yeah, it's all over the place for you. Yeah, that's all right. So what dog do you use now?
I know you Hey turn to the side good so so the people can see who this prodigy who this greatness is in the studio. Yeah, man. Yeah, um Yeah, appreciate that. Maybe that's me.
Hey, I'm microphone So as a do you have an artist that you cook up? Um, I have a couple that I work with from time to time nobody like that's like my artist Who have you worked with and who have you done it? Well, I got a track of sweetie All about them placements, baby. All about them placements Do you like working in the studio with the artist or do you be like, okay, I'll see you something I like working with the person.
You know, you can When you just send stuff, you know, you never know how the person feels or it's gonna feel so What what by do you particularly like to to vibe out to the um, you like the um, have you heard about Atlanta? Um, uh, what's the call? Uh, uh, uh Slip on my slip on what's the artist? No particular.
Yeah, so it's Atlanta. Um, it's not trap It's uh, the new the new is there an artist in the genre. Yeah, like a little dirt, uh, you know, uh, king ground Yeah, Atlanta drill. Okay.
Yeah, so I haven't heard any particular artists. But do you do drill as well? I've done some drill needs. Okay.
Yeah, I'm actually coming out with a project I did this mock this is more dance project, but it's um, it's like that Jersey that Jersey shit that's popular right now Kind of fresh and ugly stuff. Yeah Oh, man. We would love to hear that. What's the call so we can just call motion.
It's gonna be all the likes Spotify I've been using everywhere. Hey, where you didn't get me? Hey, the name alone the name of motion move people. You know I'm saying motion Hey, my my kids want to call my little because I just got a little Yorkie.
They call emotion. But like no, it's name is not motion Where but that's his middle name and what not man. I have one of my daughters brothers Hey, bro, come here bro. Right.
Right. It sounds good. Right. Right.
See the name motion fits this my dog perfectly because that will Everywhere around here. Oh my god. Chill out bro. Chill out.
But yeah, man Talk to us about your studio. You know what? I shot it. That's not the crib.
Um, it's funny. It's actually like the most Maybe that's just like being a musician. It's the most Thought out rope is the it's the most stuff going on and it's the most like it was the most time I put into Probably the most comfortable as well. Uh, just because you know, it's one of those faces for people like us Um, so yeah, I got my my sound panels up.
I spent a lot of time on that. I got my desk, but my uh, NS10's my staircase of It's like we got in here. Um Yeah, I got some hardware. I got the distressor the um, the uh, 1073, the new 1073 And it's about like I'm not like trying to jump set.
I got my arcade game in there the, um, the uh, donkey con Actually phone. I was like, like eight or some shit. Yeah It's a lot. It's a lot of, you know, it's It's loud.
Yeah, yeah Oh, hold on. My Levy lights, um, just fucked up and I got to get some going to Thought about killing my whole day. Yeah. Yeah.
Um, my computer just crashed. I just killed, I just killed the game by So I believe he's still recording on the phone. I was one year away that I owe it. Yeah, like it was not a change Right, it changed like now it sounded better Right, right, right, right.
So uh, let me finish that double off too. Yeah, man. Um, yeah It sounded like you got a real creative room though. You know what I'm saying?
Like, you know, too cook up You know what I'm saying? That's a shot. Yeah, to find your face. Right.
Yeah, definitely. Oh, Okay, okay What are the three things you must have in it? Yeah, yeah, with me. Um, does um, It wouldn't count like you know, like small.
That's not what I guess. Be hug. I got it. Got it.
Got it. Got it. Got it. I got the high I am one with the two USBs to three USB Cs the SD card, HDMI is got all that.
Yeah, I had to. That's dope. Um, Because I need all that much to do over the with the MDC. Yeah, I'm not going.
I'm sorry. Sound like you got a, you know, so much room. Okay. So you like the controls?
Yeah, man. Hey, last time I took the controls though. Oh my God. I put them on in a pizza.
That'll work. Yeah. And so I was staying off P Street Street in a high rise and a funny story, man. Like, like, I was just tripping out so bad.
I was going to jump off the damn twin in Florida, man. But yeah, but my buddy was telling me, you know, don't don't don't take these rooms and start acting crazy. So yeah, I was like, that was in the back of my head. But I was like, yeah, I took so many on a piece of man.
I was just like, Oh, never again. I was waiting for the eye to come down. Like, it's a seven hour jet. It's a seven, you know, my first time.
That's what kept me good. I was like, Oh, shit, I'm gonna be good in six hours. Right. Right.
Right. Like no matter what, I'm gonna be straight. Yeah. When I went outside though, when I went outside, I was straight.
But in opposite. Yeah, I was outside. I had to go inside. Oh, damn.
I was around. I was in the park. I had to get around. I was around people.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I was outside walking the dog. I just seen, you know, the clouds and stuff that colors and yeah.
I was really shaped though. She thought it first. She was like, Oh, she was like, I don't know. I'm biting.
No, no, no, no. I'm biting. No, no, no. No, no, no.
Yeah, you're right. Yeah, you're right. Let's go. Let's go.
Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
Let's go. Um, what else did I want to say? Um, what's your favorite part about music? Mm.
Just the options I would say. Which is like a lot of things in music, at least like in my mind is, uh, it can be a double edged sword. Like, you know, you can have too many options for real. Um, music theory.
Yeah. It's just so, there's so much you can do. And another thing like the reason I like engineering is you can go a hundred things right and the hundred and first thing you do could fuck up everything when you're kind of like rework it and figure out what you fucked up. If you fucked up at the third step, then you gotta, you know, go back all that way.
And it's just so much going on. It's so technical, but it's created at the same time. So it's fun. I like that example.
Yeah, that's no, that's no damn I'm confused now. No, but yeah, music, music alone, man, it's so, it's so intricate. You know what I'm saying? So many different dynamics.
Ways to freak it. Yeah. Yeah. Tell us a story about music that you'll never forget that you're with, that you know, crazy, fun, sad, mad.
Oh, man. I'll get you too. No. So the first one is, I mean, thank you very much.
I remember I was making this mixtape. It was just like, everything like making on the computer. I was like, during my tracks and whatever. And I was trying to upload some of my tracks.
I just downloaded it. And for some reason, it messed up and it like, deleted everything out of my eye tones because it was connected to me and everything. I was probably like 14 and sick. I promise I'll put it down in tears.
But I was like, I was like, everything was lost. I was like, yo, the world is ending. It was crazy. But luckily, I just realized that like everything is in your downloads folder.
And I don't know that time. So I didn't delete you. And I went back and had like pretty much all of my tracks, like mostly. So I was going to go recovery.
Yeah. Yeah. I was like, I was DJing Cancun and I do like spring breaks out there. I did like three years straight in this one year.
Girls don't laugh. No. Show me your titties. I was just like, there was DJ and just with another DJ and they're married.
And so this is on backstage and girl likes me. Like as in like, she's like, oh, he's so cute. He's so cute. He's a great DJ.
He's talking about me a lot. She just like, no, you slick. So he started to feel like I'm way back stage. He's drunk.
He's like, oh, my wife loves you. I'm like drunk. Like whole room is like, oh, she like, what are you doing? Oh, like, she's like, oh, calm down.
Your gunhouse man. I was like, man, funny. She had to like, calm him down. Like, me and the hungers was lapped in.
It was just mad crazy. It was awkward, but it was like funny. Right. Right.
Right. Damn. I wasn't doing nothing. I was just chilling.
Doing you. He was so offended and scared. I don't know. Yeah.
Probably both. Yeah. Yeah. That's all right.
Do you remember your first beat? I do actually. It was like, I feel like it was called Housebeat or something like that. It was bad.
It was in logic. I don't like logic. That's just me. Like, I've been like everywhere I was on Ableton.
I was on Logic Ableton. You see it in the projects and it was in the games. Whatever. Like, it's a fun tool.
Whatever. So, what's your favorite? Ableton. Just because I'm the fastest in it.
I feel like I can give a lot. Master it or? Of course. I wouldn't say master it, but I'm pretty grounded.
I'm definitely real good. Yeah. I don't think anybody can master any of the dogs. Not as valid.
You know, there's always something you can do. There's always something you don't know how to do. I mean, there's different ways to think. It's not even about like doing or doing it.
Yeah. That's dope. That's dope. Do you like it when people associate you with your dad?
I mean, I'm used to it now. Okay. Okay. Okay.
I ain't got that in school. So, I actually just got a tattoo. It's my dad's signature. It's kind of an ironic thing for me, but yeah, I just learned to accept it.
Just like, that's right. I know who I'm on. No. No.
Yeah. That's what's up. That's what's up. What artist would you like to work with next?
I'm gonna cap. I want to work with Jayden Smith. Yeah. Awesome.
What type music though? Like I'm like the more like trippy, the trippy shit. I'm not like Joey Bennett. Yeah.
He's gonna be like I'm not trying to do that. I'm trying to do like the trippy, trippy, the riding stuff. It's like the change is like you know, you riding in LA and top down or whatever. Yeah.
That's like the vibe. Smino. Who is Smino? He's from St.
Louis. He like, you know, I'm just guys. I mean, no one sounds like him. He used to use his check mouth.
Okay. Bye. Check out Smino, y'all. Check him out.
One of the best artists like my generation. No category yet. Hasn't even- He'd say like Neo, so definitely that's a, I would say, I hear a lot of influences, but it sounds very rich. IDK.
I don't know. There's a lot of people. There's a lot of five people out right now. Yeah.
Yeah. You got to find them. They don't know. But the people you just named, I haven't heard.
Some of them. Where? They come in other festivals and stuff like that. Okay.
So what's your biggest festival and would you like to be Jay or would you rather be like the artist? I'm still starting on this artist thing. So it's a different, I know it's kind of different. Like, DJing isn't always on the, you know, I was on the back of the stage, but I think it still feel like that or in some sort.
So I know it's different. But I used to do DJ for just a day. So I used to do stuff like that. Like I did have Christmas with my dad, you know, by one of six concert.
I've done some big stages, but yeah. It's all different. It's all different. Either one.
Yeah. Either one can hit me. Yeah. I can do both.
Yeah. That'll be dope. They haven't seen that before. Like just starting with the mic and then.
Hold on. Go back there and scratch. You know what I'm saying? That'll be wild.
Yeah. That'll be wild. I played drums too. So that's what I was going to ask you to.
Did you play them growing up? Yeah. I played in high school. I was learning like freshman year.
I just showed the class. He teaches at John B. We go practice. You know, we try to get their first and then where we're standing.
Right. I want the drums. It goes to the man's class and then like, you know, see who gets it the rest of the day. But by junior year I was doing my open mics.
I actually changed schools, but I was going to open my up there and we did that like not once in every month or whatever. I had a practicing song. You know, when the UB's are like, you know, crazy. So I'm like straight beats and whatnot.
I had great rhythm up. So it was fun. My grandfather got me an electronic set during that time and I practiced a little bit. You know, kind of put on the background a little bit when I was college and then I came back and I was getting back into drums and getting up with the set.
Yeah. So that's clear to say that's your favorite instrument. Yeah, I tried to get into bass, but it wasn't as easy as drums. I'm not going to be mad.
I can't be mad. Okay. Yeah. That's what's up.
That's what's up. What would you be doing if you wasn't? Is there anything else you need? In another life, I'd probably be doing fashion.
I can't catch. If I wasn't doing music, I'd probably have like a sewing machine or some shit in my garage or something. I'd make him like some like crazy ass clothes. Like, who you didn't shave.
I made these shoes. I mean, I just put the laces in there, which you had like drove a hose in and went out in my sense. That's what I'm probably doing. Yeah.
That was a dope. You gotta give me something laces, bro. Yeah, man. What else?
I do not like this. It's in Vegas. It's too much. Maybe I'll just do post-to-or something.
I don't know. What'd you think about the YSL trial in the hole? I don't know, man. I really don't be keeping up with like current events or my security shit.
I just feel my own shit. I really need to get outside. I need to get outside. I got a cap.
That's a lot of shit out here. I feel you on that. I'll peek at it. I'll peek at it.
This is kind of staying a little into him. I feel something so strong. Like, we can't just be somebody bullshit I'm done. At least my bullshit is like my bullshit.
I'm watching my type of TV. Right. Right. Right.
We do just my here. This is me. Yeah, man. I waste my time my way.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Go. Go. Which thing? AI.
AI. You think? Bro. I mean.
No. Very now. Yeah. I heard like one song.
I did. You like the Drake song. That's cool. I can't bear pointing.
This is one I like. I don't remember the name of it. It's called Mercury. It's like about Mercury and retrograde.
It's not funny actually. But it's hard. It's hard. It's not like a Drake song.
It's a crazy part. Not only in the voice, but like the writing. I mean, but the difference between it is like the AI writing. It just changes the voice.
It's new. It makes the song. His voice sounds like it. It just changes me.
And he kind of wrapped like Drake. Or real though. Like he even had a line like so Drake is flying. Like the one way to like the real.
Right. Right. Right. Right.
You're saying you didn't write this for Drake? Yeah. It's a Drake or isn't. Yeah.
That's so hard. I got to have I'll be listening to it that much. So like the same songs I like. Yeah.
I was just talking to somebody about that though. I feel like if AI is just copying voices, certain people are damn near copies of artists like I don't even know. It's a lot of them. I don't want to call him.
It's a lot of them. Yeah. It's a lot of them. I think I feel like he sounds like Kanye.
He's in a certain era of Kanye like in his voice and his. He's original, but he I can tell he listens to a lot of Kanye. And I think that's cool though because you know there's certain things that we're not getting from artists like maybe right they either stop or not talking about no. No.
Some artists are tired. So he was hanging there. So I'm built for real. Not for real.
It's cool that we can get that sound like an evolution of it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
I can do it. You know that's right. It was already kind of being done. Right.
I heard Timmillen and Timmillen they was AI. Timmillen beat. Well it was biggie. It was biggie and somebody else and I heard biggie's first and I was like man.
Where I heard that. You know Tim you know your beat was dope but you know why you didn't rap with biggie when he was live. But it was like. Right.
You know because it didn't sound like biggie. You know you could tell it was AI. Yeah. What I'm saying.
No it wasn't. It wasn't. So all in all to say the AI isn't as genuine or you can tell if it's authentic with certain certain people that you really feel. I mean I'll be thinking that deep in the certain shit.
I just be like you know if it's dope it's dope. Like that once on it's like damn you should actually go. Right. Right.
Right. At least I get it. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Right. Right. Right.
It's it's so to me. It's it's AI is taking over. What do you think about? What do you think about?
What do you think about the robot? What do you think about the robot? It's taking over. Everything.
I mean they're not that advanced yet. They are not advanced. Uh not in the I-ro-bike. I don't know what it was in the movie.
Yeah I-ro-bike. Yeah it was much better. Not there yet. But I don't know.
I'm not gonna be the last one to get a robot. I want to test it but I don't trust it. No. Right.
I fuck with them. I just don't. Right. Right.
Right. Right. I'm gonna be doing like two more or three more years. Right.
Because I keep hearing like they can even like racially profile like say if you was on it and they're trying to get a job somewhere. Like just based off your name. Like because there's nobody. There's no laws behind who that whoever's creating that you know what I'm saying.
You know and they're actually discriminating in certain jobs. And the computer is down racist. You know what I mean? I was programming them.
Exactly. Exactly. But who says they can't program it in there. You know there's no balls over there.
There's no balls over there. There's no balls over there. Cause it's technology or some shit. Yeah so.
But I did hear Elon Russell's trying to like you know have like a kill switch. Like you know just a little. Yeah so if they just- yeah they can eat robots for standout I think he would have to do some movie shit. Right.
Right. Sure there's a Disney movie. He might be waiting. Right.
Right. Coat it secretly coated you know man we gotta read between the lines. They already is. Oh.
Like some shit some months ago and robots were taking over in mind as well. But then Tesla. Right. Right.
Yeah. It's great. I like the test. I test route one.
And I'll put the instructors in the other, the supervisors, whatever, and the card numbers, so you can't do the self-drive shit. So I get to try that. That was the reason why I was here. I didn't know that.
I was just joking. Bring that back, you love it. Just ride it. Yeah.
I'll buy stuff for whatever. Right. But at the same time, you know, it's not going to be alright. Special function.
You feel like your beats are kind of like hit it more futuristic or something. I've heard that before. Yeah, I've definitely heard that sound futuristic. I think you can say that.
I'd say spicy, you know, like chippy type shit. You can say futuristic for sure. But yeah, bouncy. I was still like, you know, so like, fucking, I don't know.
You know, electronic and light. You're a king. Kind of like a rock band shit. Like electronic sounding.
Yeah, you can say that. Yeah, you can say that if you have a broad, like a broad state, you know, so you know, all, you know, just everything. Yeah, definitely comes from my family and they like DJing and shit out there. Yeah.
Like at the places where I was in Atlanta. I moved to Atlanta. I was like nine. So I was like 17.
I moved to New York for four years. Now I was in Atlanta for a semester. I came back to Atlanta. I was like, you know, I just flew around on DJing all the time.
I experienced a lot of different things. Yeah. Let's go. I think Triq wrote this over there in the bird wave.
Like I was like 50, 50, and I said like, how do you say it? It was cool. So we did it over there. Okay.
Okay. At the time I had like a real long journey. It's actually a lot of white people. They like chocolate.
They like chocolate too. So like, yeah, yeah. What's the situation? I was in the bus and girl said across from me she got a dryer and some shit.
And I just see it. Like, I'm staring at me and whatever. I'm like not. Oh she had.
Oh, she had. Both of y'all had. Okay. That's nice.
Like me because I have mine. So, yeah, I just can say that. I can tell she's standing with her one time and she's standing with everybody. I just can't do it.
Not good. Not good. Not bad. The dirty.
Yeah, yeah. I mean look, they must do my damn. I need the cat. I need the wash.
Yeah. People out there, you know music's fire culture is cool. Like, you know, nightlife. They should be on the shit.
Like, do whatever they want for us. Like, not, not free. We can do other stuff, but we can play. Very Hollywood.
It's cool out there. It's like the whole Spotify. There's one bar you got like both there. It's like kind of a companion.
So if you get drunk, if you get drunk, you just go to sleep. It's like a foot in the spots, bro. It's hard. It's dope.
They got like secret music stores. One is this place, like kind of like the Tars Center. It's like five foots, every four is something different. One four is like all drums, one four is all keyboard.
Since one four is like mixing, whatever, whatever. Like the Tars, it's just fine. Damn. So I bet you you slept in there.
You can leave that with three times. And then there's hours. You can use the store, they got like, mad sense. I found out my favorite sense of all time with that.
You got to like, you know, go with every person, with every other one. It's right above this fire. There's burgers, burgers, burgers, fries, too. There's some fires, fries out there.
They don't really have like, drum and do that there. It's not really. They're just like, one of the best tacos, the best tacos that I ever had was out there. No.
That's very good. Okay. Well, I actually told somebody to listen to me. But show, I never was.
It was a long time ago. Oh man. Best tacos. Best Mexican food.
But it's crazy. This dude told me that in Berlin, that's one spot. I guess something about a lot of nice people ending up there. And that's like, you know, they just bought their culture there.
It's like the only place they could be at the time. So that's why there's like some pretty good spots out there. Damn. Oh, they never did.
It's a nice thing. It's just one spot. They like black folks. They like black folks.
They like black folks. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not a big beer person, but this is beer.
I like this dog, Desperado. It's only out there. It's not out here at least. And it's Asian.
It's a kilo barrel. So it's like sweet. It's like a lime. It's just good.
I'm going there. It's like a run it. The sweeter actually. Oh, yeah.
That's dope. Oh. So what's about your beats? Tell us more about it.
So, we do our live bass. Definitely AOA. But yeah, I'd be at the same time. I feel like people have reduced voice lights to me.
I said, with like Millie. You know like, Andrew Cole. Baby Kane. So, I love to be just flat air.
I love to be just flat air. I do want to take this to do a record. Nobody even has to hear it. I just want to feel it.
Shout out to Beno. Oh, Charlie Wilson. Definitely not good track. Oh.
Oh, but Charlie. Yeah, but Charlie. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. I'll be going all over the place. Depends on the week. I don't know.
It's Sunday. I'll make dance track serves. The inside of Sunday. Right.
So, rock chis. Hip hop R&B's. Yeah. Yeah.
And you know, you got a list. You got a list. A playlist. Like literally like a...
You know what I'm saying? Yeah. You can just go through this. Oh, you can hear this?
Oh, you can hear that? I got it right here. Yeah. Yeah.