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…b you’ve got to take it on the chin because some people will like it, some people won’t. People can be quite mean, because they’re often jealous, envious because you’re getting exposure or recognition, but they don’t and they think what they do should get that kind of exposure. For some reason they don’t, usually because the stuff ain’t that good. That’s the way social media goes, you like, dislike, there are haters, there are trolls, there’s alwa…
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…d stuff. I think it would be dangerous to think of it in terms of, what do people want? People don’t what they want, I didn’t know what I wanted when I started. The first track I started, I wrote on the piano and it was really jazzy. I thought, how the hell is this going to work, compared to all this bouncy, 140 bpm or housey stuff I’ve been doing? I suppose the premise is, I’ve done this loud stuff, now I’m writing jazz piano, how am I going to b…
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…based out of Tucson, Arizona, run by Michael Tolle, and a couple of other people involved with it as well. Myself, Oddisee, and a couple other background people. It’s something that started from an apartment, a living room, to now it’s one of the top five indie hip hop labels out, period. That’s pretty dope. Has tour life brought you closer? AB: We’re all friends, no doubt. We all know each others’ personalities, we know how to push each othe…
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…ties are still impacting and feeding families today and energy never dies. People are hearing Steez for the first time everyday and learning and the further it grows the more people I think will be better off because of the power in his message. Also being in NYC I know there’s a lot of talent from rappers to producers that just haven’t gotten a real chance yet who are iLL. When I hear Erick Ark Elliot’s music it sounds miles ahead of anything on…
Read more…ecurity breads hate it’s a fact find, In fact im sure it’s incurable, Some people positive while some people are negative and totally oblivious to the harm they cause, For every Malcom X there is a president bush, For every ambitious soul, there’s a coach potato, Real said turn off the arcade man the games over, This is the takeover taking the haters over, Maybe if they had something else to do they wouldn’t watch you, Too busy with they bizz but…
Read more…s now? Do you make your music imagining what it will sound like in a club? People always come together, similar minded people, just naturally I think, so there will always be scenes and groups of people, hopefully a lot more I think we need more people coming together, the internet can be dangerous in the sense you can connect without actually meeting which is always better, so the internet changes things I suppose, but also can enable those scene…
Read more…r than they be used as criminal hotspots or schemes to line the pockets of people who have no interest in the area or the community. People who will let the area fall into ruin, so that they can turn a profit after other people have done something to regenerate the area and make it a place where people want to go again. It makes sense that, in the process of handing these places over to peoples’ artistic expression, the artists will comment on and…
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…ying from club to club across the world, is there a lack of turntables? Do people have to hire in turntables now? You can’t hide technology, so people are gonna use whatever is new out. I think as long as you have DJs that make sure they show the importance of the turntable, then that’ll never go away. You’ve pioneered Serato and played around with all sorts of technology, you ride the wave of new stuff, but with Serato did you have any pangs of g…
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