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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At the end of
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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That was my challenge
That was my challenge then, how to make scratching still fun for someone who didn’t necessarily come to hear that. It was fun to develop that technique. And now in dance music – I’m still a hip-hop guy at heart, but I love dance music.
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I worked with him
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.
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The lifestyle is strenuous
The lifestyle is strenuous on the body, but it’s stimulating to the senses and the mind. So there’s a give and take. There are days the flights knock me out, where I feel like the human punching bag that is being on planes every other day. I think people sort of glorify it, like Oh, you’re at parties and there’s booze and girls. But it’s still work.
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We have to wake
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 think whether dance
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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I’ve been doing it
I’ve been doing it since I was prepubescent when I loved to scratch records and play good music. As it happens, you know I sort of fell into the mix. I really feel like I played a role in bringing dance music to America years ago.
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When I started Fool’s
When I started Fool’s Gold and producing consistent records that were like electro beats with rapping on it that was experimental and weird. I made a mixtape called Dirty South Dance where I put rap vocals over dance music. That was literally an experiment. Now all these rappers are rapping on dance music. This is something I’ve been trying to build for a while.
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I have a radio
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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