joey beats of non-prophets
by mikrosopht
so lets hear your biological 411: your name, your age, your locations, and your favorite color
my name is joe, i go by the unfortunate title of beats i dont really like that title too much
oh it was given to you
yeah it definately was. see my theory is i'd rather have a bad nickname given to me than give myself a cool nickname. i dont believe in giving yourself a nickname i dont believe in all that shit. so a nicknames gotta be bestowed onto you.
i'm from warwick, rhode island. i'll be 26 on october 4th (2003). my favorite color is navy blue, without a question, navy blue.
have you ever been in the military
never ever ever, ever will i ever
are you anti-military
ahh no, theres a use for it i mean i just dont see myself being a part of it anytime soon.
i noticed the hey bobby track you have on the website was pretty upset
yeah thats sage more than it is me man i just did the beat. i mean i agree with a lot of his views but he gets into more of that political stuff than i do, he gets really pissed off (laughter)
so you just work with sage or do you have any other projects
i've been trying to get stuff for years other than the things ive been doing with the non-prophets which is sage and i but nothing really panned out, nothing has ever panned out. like i did a track with doodle bug from the digable planets
bad ass
yeah, and i was trying to link up with them and get something back together they were supposed to be getting back together but i guess the stuff that butterfly had was just ridiculous they didnt need anything. so i didnt do anything with that. a bunch of other small things have come up like my instrumental cd reverse discourse is basically a blend of all beats that were supposed to be used but for mcs that never either got written to, recorded, or put out. so i just put it out myself so a lot of the projects i've had that haven't been with sage haven't worked out. haven't been put out or anything like that. i've done some spoken word stuff with some people, just like me taking a spoken word piece and building a beat around it, thats only in like small press, nothing besides sage really.
so for the instrumental, whats the label you have for that
its under sage's label strange famous records
and thats providence
yeah this is based in providence. its just him like he was just basically looking to put out a series of tapes of himself and he needed a record label name so he just put strange famous
so youve been in rhode island your whole life
yeah my whole life, i've never even flown once
do you want to fly
no, i'm going to vegas in november i'm not looking forward to it
have you ever flown in your dreams
yeah, i have, but not on a plane
why are you going to vegas
just to visit a friend whos out there, finally gonna go, get the balls up and go on a plane i'm fuckin scared
congratulations, good luck
yeah thanks, hope it works out. hope i dont die.
so is providence a pretty cool place to meet other musicians?
it seems like theres some activity going on
yeah, there is, theres a lot of art here going on man. i look at providence as theres a lot going on, but everyone is just doing their own thing. for some reason collaborations just dont seem to work here know what i mean, if youre already established and you try to link up with someone whos already established within the scene it just doesnt seem to work very well. everyones kindve part of their own crew, everyones kindve doing their own thing and thats really it. i think everyones cool with each other but i just think everyone trys to, is into the healthy understanding that they are going to make it on their own and thats good. i think its very mature of us, to be honest. it really is, because too many other people end up jerking each other off and stuff like that trying to get elsewhere. you know these kids here they understand that they have to stay with their own group and stick to their guns and thats how theyre going to get out.
so how long have you been paying your dues
i've only been producing for like, it'll be, in february 2004 it'll be six years. i've been producing since january 1st 98, that was the first day i started. i started on a generic wave player for windows and then about a month later i got introduced to a program called saw pro, saw plus 32, i was working at RIU and theres a production room there and an engineer who showed me a little bit about how it worked and one of my roommates, this kid tokapona had a key to all the rooms and i used to let him get the room for the night with a girl, that hes still with to this day, and i used to just go up there all the way till like 4 or 5 in the morning, just play around with music and right down the hallway i had access to about 30,000 records that were all like really rare jazz records. i got really really lucky, from there it just spawned and about a year after that our first 12" dropped. i had only been producing for a year and my lucky ass already had a 12" out you know? because i was working with a kid, sage, who was just a hell of a hard worker who had been doing it for a long time and i was just really fortunate.
i noticed on your new release hope on lex that you actually have some older material mixed in like in the outro you have
bounce
yeah, and that was really cool. and it sounds like you remastered it and hyped up the vocals a little more so its a little cleaner
yeah, we took it off vinyl and just cleaned it up coz we had it adat seperated but like for some reason they were in the studio with the adat and it just didnt work out coz thats how we used to do it back then with the adat, now i have a burner i can just take each individual wave file as a big like, 5 minute wave file and just burn it down, individually, and its all synched up. but back then you had to fuckin link up through sympte thats a pain in the ass, man. i had to get a sympte box for that thing. sympte, once it starts working its really good but its really hard to get it to start generating and stuff like that so it took forever. so its like ahhh, everyone thought the adats were the craze but they really werent they didnt do shit they lasted for like maybe 5 years and then that was it. now pro tools came out.
do you use pro tools
no i dont, i never messed with it. i still use saw, i'm pretty good on the sp1200, im very good on it actually and i know how to use an mpc2000 mpc3000 i've worked on an asr10, um, s950 ive work on, link midi'd up with an sp, i know all those but i just stick with the saw because its just what i learned on. i'm more of a visual learner anyway. so as long as i can see everything, its just easier for me.
do you draw or paint or any other artists mediums
no (laughing) nah, i'm just a bum who can mix two samples together. thats really about it.
lets get back to these jazz records, were you inspired by a lot of the sampling like prince paul, or these guys who were doing a lot of the first, ultramagnetic
not so much prince paul, hes not really one of my favorites even though i like him, but i dont get into prince paul too much.
alright lets talk about ultra then or whatever
pete rocks my favorite. when i was growing up my top three were always pete rock, and whoever did the beats for tribe which we all know now is q-tip, and large professor, primo and those type of guys diamond, but the more i produced, the more i saw how good pete rock is. he was always one of my favorites but the more i produced the more i saw how unbelievably talented and just ridiculous and ahead of his time he is. he just solidified himself as #1 to me. he's the best i don't think anyones fucking with him yeah hes my favorite.. but like i like all those guys the ditc click, anything that was made in east new york in 89-95 all those producers were just runnin shit at that time to me, like that was the best hiphop to me.
whats your favorite year
93, fuckin illmatic right in the middle of it all. illmatic is the album right in the middle of that whole era. you're never going to find a mix of beats and rhymes like that ever.
have you heard the new outkast
outkast to me, they've gotten worse over time. i thought southernplayalistic was good, then atliens was just ridiculous, and then aquemini was cool, and then stankonia i didnt like at all and then this one i heard is even worse than stankonia i dont know i havent heard it yet. they keep branching out further and further.. its one thing to branch out, but its another to branch out and water down and i think thats what theyre doing a little bit.
so what musicians do you respect today, not neccesarily peers or idols but just the most interesting
i like amon tobin, i think hes really good. have you heard his stuff?
yeah you like a lot of ninja tune then
a little bit, some of it like sixtoo hes a good friend of mine he just got signed to them. i like his stuff i like what he does but i like amon tobin a lot. i'd say anything dj shadow does is fucking gold, still. i like a lot of bossa nova, like from the old school. i like a lot of old records. i've liked bossa nova for a while now, its kindve had me by the balls. a lot of people i like i'm kindve studying them from before. i like a lot of the old school producers, pete rock, k def all those guys, a lot of the old records i'm sampling from like this new guy i just got put onto my boy mootson put me onto, this guy jorge ben hes this brazilian cat im just listening to his music and its just fucking unbelievable, stuff like that. i mean this guy might be dead as far as i'm concerned you know, but like i'm not too trendy i don't really put my energy into keeping up with the joneses, i just think its kindve a waste of time.
so do you like to wear white shoes or
(laughter) i've got a bunch of shoes man
yeah
yeah
do you like to have lots of shoes like a girl or is that just
nah nah not like a girl, i've got three pairs. i've got a pair of wallabees right there, i've got a pair of black pumas and i got these bad boys right here.. these need to be washed.
you wash your shoes
yeah i do i was them in the washer
alright
(laughters)
have you stepped in much gum
down on the street yeah theres a lot of gum on the street
do you ever spit gum on the street
no, i dont, i make sure to rap it up
really
because i know that sucks when you step on it especially in the summer time thats the worst
do you save it for later
no, i dont save it for later, i throw it away. i spit it in a napkin and throw it away.
nice
yeah, or i put it in an ash tray,
its ok to put it in an ash tray too.
so do you eat out much
yeah, i live right downtown i either eat like lunchmeat just from the supermarket
have you ever had lunchmeat for breakfast or dinner
oh sure, sure. all the time.
is that treason
no, coz our kitchen, fuck it, is really fucking dirty and nasty. and i dont like to cook in there, to me, for me to go in there and then prepair to cook, and then clean to cook, its too much time. its just less expensive for me in the long run to just go to the store and just grab something. i usually eat a lot at this place down the street called the cuban revolution. cuban joint.
cuban joints
yep. cuban joints, right.
do you have any plans to travel to cuba or any tropical fantasies
no, ahh brazil.
brazil, with your mil that would be nice
yeah, that would be sweet. if i had a million dollars i'd go to brazil.
so, with a deal, like, lex probably gave you a couple million
yeah, a few, five million.
nice
they gave us five mil.
so now you guys are going to be big ballin all over providence
yeah, big ballin. you can catch us at meeting st and the cafe big ballin with all the brazilian ladies around us.
gold chainses
yeah
nice
you like mr. t
hes aiight
i kindve empathize with his character ba baracus because hes afraid to get on the plane, same thing as me. so i kindve have a connection there with him.
you like to play madden football? because he doesnt like to go on planes either. he takes a little tour bus.
i love football and i love madden. back in the sega days i would kick some ass at madden. but as soon as it made the switch to playstation i just started getting worse and worse. i never really made the switch.
youre an oldschool gamer
im an oldschool gamer. genesis, sega genesis. give me madden 93, 94 or even madden 95, i'll do well. nba live, too.
so what about super nintendo or nintendo.
nah man too many fucking buttons on the super nintendo, i hated that. too many fucking buttons.
they got like, 4, 6, you just gotta keep counting
it was stupid, too many fucking things to do
so do you play many games for activities or are you pretty much a hardcore producer 24/7
(laughing) yeah, again, i dont want to sound like a jerk but i think i've passed a certain age that you know, video games can really consume you and they can really be a little bit of a waste of time once you abuse it. but i still play if i'm at a friends house or something like that, and i love playing sports. i'm definately one for competition but i don't have one for that specific reason because i know that i might get caught into it.
how about like, actual analog physical movement sports
i was supposed to basketball this summer a lot and i didnt, coz i was just too busy doing music and stuff
couldve had a basketball throwdown, cold crush fab five.. do you like wild style
yeah its alright, i like style wars better, even though its a documentary whereas wild style is an actual movie but yeah, i like wild style.
if you could kill cap, would you do it
kill cap? no! i wouldnt kill cap at all, i know that they made him out to be the bad guy in style wars but his influence is fucking ridiculous, i mean whos that guy, one guy that was cap he was under cap and hes huge now. hes a puerto rican kid, hes really big. and he came up under cap i was starting to think, well maybe you know cap isnt such a bad guy. so, then i started to realise, you know, how the media does shit.
so how do you feel about media today in america, or the united states..
hold it, hold it, and also to get back to cap i thought it was interesting how he thought that more was better. i dont really like that philosophy so much.
quantity over quality
yeah, he was more about having more ups, and i dont think people see the real artistic arguement in that, but there really is theres a huge artistic arguement in that. like in a sense that you could say that cap represents pop culture, in the sense that like hes only concerned with the end result: more ups now. and the other kids were more like the artists, who wanted these like really pretty throw ups
whats this circle on your door
the little one, i dont know, thats the kid before me. that little piece of tape right there, is a little peep hole. theres tours that happen all the time here at as220 and i have my headphones on the other side of the door, and the peephole was just for the wire, so when people come by they can hear what i'm working on. i did that because this fucking kid, the wire art kid, put all his pieces out in front of his door, so i wanted to make it seem like i was at least doing something in here.
what are the other kind of musicians that are up here
all the way down the hallway is this kid tfo hes an electronica dj hes really good. next to him is a kid chris warren who engineered the non-prophets album, and hes also a guitar player. next to him was a girl who just moved out and we're looking to fill the space now, she was a visual artist. kid next to him is just, all types of shit. then you got me, i'm here. next to me is a girl whos in a reggae band, she sings and she also paints. down the end of the hallway we have a björk wanna-be, she does a pretty bad bjork impression i'm kidding, it's pretty good. down at the other end of the hall we have this kid spogga, hes a musician, live looping, he'll take a guitar and beat the end of it for a drum beat and loop it up on a little loop machine, and then he'll play a little riff and makes all these little noises and shit its crazy its awesome. then right here we have sonny the wire art kid, next to him we have this girl harmony shes an mc shes a rapper, and then we have this girl serena, whos is also a singer and a piano player. tons of musicians, in fact we're looking at like, four people are moving out, so we're going to get more different types of people. the selection committy was actually just last night to get more people in here. too many fucking musicians man, theres too many. gotta get rid of em.
so did you pass through the quality filter system, did you have to give a demo to get this apartment
you have to apply first and you have to wait forever for a room to open up, then you get thrown into this mix of other people who just went through the same thing you just did, and you've got to insert a resumé, demo, and you've got to go through an interview process, and luckily i got it. i just barely barely by the skin of my teeth got it.
what is as220
it stands for alternative space or artist space 220, 220 because it used to be on 220 richmond street which is now jerky's. the main idea was from this guy named burt who is right downstairs right now, burt kranka, he wanted to create an artist space for everyone to come, good or bad, any kind of art. because he felt that in the scene, before it was just like a bunch of artists where art was a sortve priveledge, it had to be a certain way for it to get noticed or to get put out there. so he came up with this name and started squatin ppac for 6 months, there in the bottom of the ppac. then they moved over to another factory space, they were squattin there and they eventually moved to richmond street and they started becoming legit as a non-prophet. and now they're here and they own a 3.5million dollar building in providence, this building that we're in right now. some diners are also part of this building and they pay rent to us, to bert and sean anyway, the director and the assistant director. and its just expanded. on the second floor they have work-in studios, they pay rent each month for their little space and up on the 3rd floor they have live-in studios like the one you're in right now. i can go on and on, but thats the basic jist of it. downstairs is the cafe slash art gallery and every night theres a show. every night, theres not one night where there isnt a show.
so you check those out a lot
you have no choice but to check them out because you cant get to sleep. its not a big deal
you dont need 8 hours or anything like that
yeah well i like 8 hours, i could still do 8 hours
did you ever check out fort thunder
i've never seen it i've only heard of it the legend i've seen pictures
its torn down
yeah it sucks because we're doing a blurb for cmj magazine a local zine in providence, like if people want to come here what they should check out and me and sage are both doing it. and i just, wanted to somehow mention fort thunder. its awesome
theres still like a warehouse thing going though
yeah, theres a lot of different warehouses but i dont think anything is going to ever come close to that place
that was so established for years
are you familiar with lightning bolt
yeah i actually saw this secret show at one of the warehouses a couple weeks ago
munch house?
it was at the providence civic center
isnt lightning bolt amazing?
yeah they were intense
fucking intense
there were people there with like self inflicted wounds
yeah those guys dont fuck around, that whole mill scene you know. those guys dont play.
ever get into any fights
no i havent, i know how to stay clear. i've only almost been jumped once, and i talked my way out of it. i don't know how the fuck i did it, i really dont. it was at century lounge last summer in the bathroom i almost got jumped and it was going to get ugly quick. i was taking a piss and this fucking kid, i just laughed at something he said, i wasnt laughing at him i was laughing with him you know, and then his boy fucking told him and they both came back in and tried to jump me. it was ugly but i dont know what i said to get out of it but i got out of it. and i ended up buying him a drink and it was all good.
do you have many girlfriends
i just got out of a relationship
was it very serious
yeah, it was. it was two years. it was fucking hell. i'm glad its over.
is being single heaven
you know what, i always knew that being single.. see when you're in a relationship, no matter how bad it is or how good it is, you always have these visions that its this fucking paradise, and as soon as you walk in every girl is going to bend over and let you sniff their ass. (laughters) thats just not how it happens, and i understood that getting out of the relationship that the single life was not going to be like that. its just funny, and it hasnt been, and im glad. but ive been dating a lot but nothing very promising. no
do you ever get a little action with the non-prophet referential
(laughters) no, never. i never do, never once. and if i have i haven't been smart enough to notice it but i think its.. to be honest my relationship with girls in regard to my music is every girl i've ever been with or mentioned it to thinks its a joke. they think its silly, they're like, i go and look for records to make music. and they think its dumb. and it is, its almost like comic books, its kinda like a geeky thing. but, you know, it paid for fucking dinner last night. its paying for this, whatever, right now. its something that even though its weird it is something that i do take seriously and that it does in the end is the start of the whole process. so every girl ive ever been with or like talked with about or dated about it just thinks its, they like to play the cool role and make it seem like "oh joey beats" and try to be above it all. but the funny thing is this album is going to get released fucking worldwide, and still they have no respect. i'm not telling you to ride my balls, but at least respect what i do and not constantly get on my ass about it. so i have a theory now that i'm not going to share any of my experiences that i get off this record with any girl, none, because every girl i've been with thought its a joke. period. and thats really how i feel deep down about it, but i still have a good time, i like to go out, but i'm not looking for anything serious. anything, and the minute that it does i'll have to hit myself over the head or something like that and wake myself the fuck up because a relationship is a huge responsibility. so no: i never got any skins off this non-prophets record. the only time i come close to getting any kind of girls is if i mention slug's name. and at that point, its not really me thats getting them. its his name and them displacing their desire for him onto me. and its just not fair and it feels cheap... i dont know how well thats going to go over in an interview bro (laughters) but thats the truth.
the thing is, about a week ago i met a girl downstairs and shes so hot, you know like, short, i love shorter girls, small feet, love small feet, jet black hair, love jet black hair
so you like japanese women
no no no, i like olive skin, nice and curvy, a little bit thick. she saw i had an atmosphere shirt on, now to be honest, slug i love you but the shirt that he ended up giving me was a little bit small on me, coz they dont have bigger sizes. those kids like emo kids they rock real small shirts you know. i'm only wearing it because its like one of the only shirts i have left thats clean, so it was one of those days where i just kindve threw it on, and i saw her downstairs and shes like "oh wow atmosphere" and i dont know why this happened but it fucking, because like i'm friends with them, and those guys like they help us out a lot. they really did, they took sage along on tour. and they liked the music and they helped out, and they really helped us establish a good fanbase in the midwest. i really look up to those guys for that and i've never expressed that to slug even though i've had numerous chances to talk to him, i really thank him and jay bird for that. so like, its just second nature for me to say like "oh yeah they're a great group of guys and theyre friends of mine" and i dont know why but the minute that came out of my mouth its just automatic and thats how it comes out. and then i said to myself "why did i say that" because the minute i said it she started acting completely different toward me. it wasnt just a normal conversation anymore. i dont want to get put into an awkward position where its like i know i wanna, but i just shouldnt because its cheap.
would you consider yourself anti-groupie
... no (laughters) no i'm not. no, if a girl comes up to me and says she likes what i do and my music that isnt just the norm, that isnt something like "you know, i like how you rocked this sample" or "blahblahblah this is very reminiscent of this" something other than just "this is dope" or like "i go to sleep to it" or "dededadadahh" thats the only thing that would really make me take notice. i refuse to ever believe that the producer will ever get groupies. like the bassist of a guitar group, forget about it, it just doesnt happen. i dont think i'm ever going to have to worry about that to be honest. but no, i'm not antigroupie. i'm very superficial.
so, this (the album hope) is on lex records, which is actually an imprint off warp records
right
how exactly did you get hooked up with them and they're in the uk
right
you've never been to the uk
never
and you probably should go to the uk
i'm going
now that this is going to drop
yep.
tell me about how you hooked up, what plans you have
it was years ago, it was right before sage was about to drop a record on anticon, and tom, the guy who runs lex, lex is basically a hiphop division of warp really thats how ive come to understand it, they give this guy this money to work and theyre fucking great man, they really are, warp especially i applaud them. as soon as people found out sage was working with anticon, a lot of people started talking with us. he approached us and said "ok, i'd like to put out this non-prophets record" and hes the one guy throughout all of it that just stuck with us every week writing us an email for the most part, checking in with us, upping the cash advance, not that really made any difference but just upping what he could do for us. upping his offers, upping the proposal sheet, we just really liked it after, he kept honest, and he was really into it, seemed like he really wanted it so it just seemed like the best decision for us to go with it. i dont really know how he heard of us or whatever... are we still going?
yeah i just havent actually done an interview in person
oh ok
well, i've done it on the telephone so its like
now what do you do, are you going to cut this up or put it up as actual audio
probably not initially because i dont have the usb from the md connection
oh sure
so i'm just going to like, play it back and... type it out. (3 months later)
that sucks man
nah, it'll be cool, it's alright.
is it?
if i get in the groove, its kindve like writing a track, you're like "alright, tonight i'm gonna do this."
that's cool. fuck man, god bless you, i couldn't do it.
(laughters)
i really couldn't, that takes some shit. did you take like journalism or something?
did i take journalism
yes is that something you're interested in?
nah, well, its just kinda like a hobby. but, we can talk more about me later
oh ok sorry
i gotta pick YOUR brain
alright
so what kindve iq do you have
i dont know
never got tested
(laughters)never
never had a shrink
ah, yeah, i did actually but i never asked him. i dont believe too much in it. i just believe that once you're at a certain level of intelligence you really dont get much higher. so i dont know i think i'm pretty average.
do you smoke weed
no, i dont. i have an occasional guinness but i dont smoke. i dont smoke at all. do you?
uhhh... (laughters)
yeah? a little bit? LITTLE BIT
i actually uh, dont, legally.
oh, right right right.
but like, nah i probably shouldnt coz it had pretty adverse effects on me
oh really? lazy?
no i actually get really intense and hyper
WOW
yeah i'm like the 1 out of 20 that happens to
right
but uh... anyway, um (laughters)
yeah, so they came to us and we eventually went with them and i'm very happy with all that they've done especially the epitaph people too
epitaph?
yeah, sage is on epitaph now. he signed a three record deal with them right after he signed this one. and they've been awesome, they really like our record a lot and have offered to help us promote so we've got two labels to promoting it.
would you be cool with having your shit on a reebok commercial?
yep. yep. totally cool with it. why not?
you going to have action figures
i dont give a shit, i dont care, why not? pay off my moms house, to do fucking music for 30 seconds on a commercial? yep... fuck you, fuck you and your art. fuck you, i'm doing it. whoever will complain, thats my new philosophy. a million. a million dollars, puffy wants me in a video? a million. puffy wants to do a beat for me? a million. puffy wants me to sing on the beat? thats another million on top of it. a million. thats the flat rate, a million. you want to make me look like a jackass, i'm going to make you pay a jackass price.
kool keith got like 30 thousand for prodigy, the prodigy tracks, would you do it for that
30 gs, prodigy, yeah. hes not like puffy sell out watered down status
so youre talking mtv
im talking mtv carson daily, a mil. coz i know them mother fuckers got it, they got the million. they will pay it too.
i notice that you're getting a little upset
nah i'm kidding.
(laughters) alright
it's all theatrics.
you have the non-prophet philosophy on the website there it looks like you got a little, theatrical.
those are from years ago, too, but go on..
yeah like 91
no
shit i mean 2001
yeah
but the website seemed a little bit old
yeah, it is old. but we like it like that.
since
yeah, again, like i dont think sage or either or i are very much up like keeping up with the joneses trend wise. it just takes too much energy to be cool, i dont give a shit.
so youre just going to do your thing, right?
yeah, and the website is just another piece of that thesis statement that we dont really give a shit about whats happening right now as long as it works and it looks good it'll stand the test of time and that's all that really matters to us.
so, the title is hope, and thats also the rhode island motto, slogan?
yep
is that just saying yo, and i notice at the start you've got scratches with providence rhode island
yeah. to me, in the rhode island scene hiphop especially theres so many kids that were so out on just putting rhode island on the map. "whos going to be the first to put rhode island on the map" and i think when we came up with this title it was within that era right there, and i dont think that we were specifically trying to say that we were going to do it or that we were so amped up about doing it, but, i just think it fits. i mean, he had an idea for the cover and i just think its good pay ode to the place that we both love. its kindve corny and it doesnt even really seem to fit, you've got this early 90s referenced hiphop with the fucking rhode island symbol, its more bricolage if anything but i guess it fits.
so you dont have any plans of living in new york or l.a.
no, i dont have any plans of getting any more engrained in the rat race than i already am. you go to places like that, you fucking wait in line just to go to the bathroom, theres just so many people. i just feel like why am i going to go to new york, when theres 1001 producers out there, who really- i dont know, theres so many ways i can go with it, but its like why am i going to drown myself in a pool of presskits, why am i going to do that, (whereas) when i'm here and i have a nice opportunity to have a nice clear head, and really do what i want to do, and not either be congested by other artists and not be congested about all the things i could possibly do. new york is a double edged sword in the fact that theres so many opportunitys there, but theres also so much shit going on. like if i was to use pro tools, i couldnt use pro tools, because theres too many avenues to go with it, so i use saw, because its nice and simple and im kindve forced to have a pathway, and i just think thats the best way to go.
creativity through limitation
thats big with me, limitation.
do you like sunny days or cloudy days
depends on my mood really, i like fall days. actually for the most part i like days where theres not a fucking cloud in the sky.
blue skys
yeahhhh man, but its a nice fall, fresh air day.
thats what i like.
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