So the new trend is to get as many beat makers on your track as possible and Producers are becoming the superstars now. But so many are compromising their artistic vision to suite artists and we need to counterbalance that. Take me for example, I’m working with an r&b vocalist and also working with some MCs, but at the end of the day when I’m by myself, I make music that is ‘experimental’: no high hats, kicks slightly off, wierd noises.

As producers we need that release. I’m sorry Kanye Lovers, but his old stuff form himself will always be my favorite stuff. This new theory of dumbing it down needs a counterwieght or we’re all gonna be stuck with dumb music full of the same samples our grandma’s used when they were crocheting and making headbanging beats back in the day.

outro!

I have recently been reminded that I am black. I went to school in SLO so I think I started thinking, hhhmmm, maybe I’m just a citizen of the human race.

HELL NAW.

Obama had to F*&k it up and tell everybody he was black!

LMBBAO!!!

I recently DJed an event called SOMBFAB! (some of my best friends are black). This phrase has been used excessively. To the point where it is up there with the ‘N’ word. So we took it and re-invented it(just like we did with Christianity) and made it a party to be celebrated. I played: Hall & Oats, Prince, Micheal Jackson but I also played Prince Sunny Ade, Prince Nico Mbarga and managed to end up with Smokie Robinson.

All these entail the black experience. We have been constantly at the forefront of the modus operandi and we still are. The black man will re-invent anything, we ooze of creativity. Just look at Hip hop. We sampled everything from mozart to Johnny Cash and even some monastic chants here and there.

It’s wild yo! listening to Owusu sounding like Mike. Celebrate with us, cause weather you know it or not, some of YOUR best friends are black too.