I Didn't Start Making Music In Order

My Grandmother Always Used To Wear This English Perfume Called Tuberose And Then She Died And Then I Dated This Girl Who Wore The Same Thing. Every Time I Hung Out With Her, I Could Only Think Of My Recently Deceased Grandmother. So Sometimes A Signature Scent Can Be Good And Sometimes It Can Be Bad.

Stevie Wonder Doing 'we Can Work It Out' By The Beatles Is One Of My Favorite Records Of All Time.

I Got Into Dj'ing Because I Started To Listen To New York Radio A Lot. Obviously, I Knew The Stuff Everybody Knew, Like Beastie Boys And Public Enemy, But I Heard "who Got The Props" By Black Moon, And I Went Up To This Kid In My School With The Walkman On And Was Like, "what Is This? You Must Tell Me How I Can Get This Now." Because There Was No Shazam Or Googling Lyrics.

Then, You Know, The Other More-traditional Role Of The Producer In, Like, The Kind Of Quincy Jones Sense Is Kind Of Part Arranger. So You're Coming Up With, Like, These - You Hear These Songs That Are Quite Bare-bones, And You Dream Up What's The Band Doing? What's The Rhythm Section Doing? What's The Guitars, Strings, Pianos - That Sort Of Thing. It's Almost Like A Little Toolbox.

So Sometimes If I'm Working With A Rapper, Like Ghostface Killah Or Nas, Producing Usually Means, In Hip-hop, That You Make The Music. You Make The Beat, And You Give It To Them. And They Write The Rhymes.