I'll take two months off just to listen to records and not do any music so I can absorb all that and then when I go do my music. It's all in me. I'll listen to a different genre every two days or something, study it, 24 hours straight.
The equipment doesn't matter, it's the vibe you put into it. If the music sounds good, music sounds good.
I've always done music with so-called thug- or gangster-type lyricists. I've always been associated with that because I'm from the West Coast.
I used to memorize music when I was real young. Schoolwork, not so much. But music I could remember.
I like white wine, Riesling.
I'm a man of few words.
I'm all about the music.
Some people think I'm crazy, but I'm just a normal dude that loves music.
It's not easy to sound like Dilla, but you can make beats like Dilla with your computer, so that's why everybody sounds like Dilla.
Dilla was a John Coltrane-type dude. He was always on a higher level. He inspired my music to become looser and more soulful.
If I sample a song, I usually make samples out of the whole album. Then I move on after that. Doesn't mean I'm going to release that whole album, but I do that.
My pops had me at the studio since I was born. That's why I got into music. He would let me go up on the controls and mess with stuff.
My computer? I never use a computer. It's too easy.
I think a lot of guys are influenced by 'Pinata.' I fathered a lot of styles off that album.
People only know me for what they've heard, but that only represents about 10 percent of what I've done.
I studied jazz at home with my grandparents. They always had jazz dudes at the house, but I didn't study formally. I just hung around a lot of musicians.
I'm quiet, so people might think I'm a mute.
Dudes I work with have to be like-minded to where I just hand them a beat that has a chorus and they can do with them what they gotta do. If they can't do that, I usually don't work with 'em.
I do a few shows every year, but I'm mostly at home, making music. Day and night.
I'm a laid back dude, I don't really get excited.
