You’re young - from your perspective, what’s right and what’s wrong in the music industry today?
I sure hope so, Clams Casino is probably my favorite “new” producer at the moment, hearing rappers over his dreamy-spacey ass shit is like, fresh, you know? Like it’s something different and I really like that, I hope to take the same route Clams did and end up working with some really buzzing up-and-coming artists. So yeah, we’re working on some stuff.ĭo you think you’ll be able to take a similar route as Clams Casino did after working with Lil B? He gave me his other contact info so he still wants to work with me, which is cool. Lil B has told me to keep sending him beats. Pretty cool.Īre you two working on anything else in the future?
Working with the Based God man, it’s pretty dope cause now I have that under my “belt,” nahmean? Like if I want to work with someone I can say, “I’ve worked with Lil B,” and that’ll like, increase the chance of them wanting to work with me. What’s it like working with Lil B, perhaps one of the most prolific artists currently out? It’s not really hard balancing the two: if you took music away from me I’d probably still be getting the same grades I get, which are mostly C’s. Is it hard balancing your music with school or are you able to keep both of those worlds fairly separate? YouTube, vinyls, forums, cassettes, CD’s, 8-tracks, commercials, toys, outside, anywhere - I hear a dog barking and look up dogs barking on YouTube and add that in my music, I play a video game and hear some spacey ambient shit and look up the soundtrack and sample that. Now, I’ve learned my way around the program and making music is funner because of it. So it wasn’t until like 14 that I knew about mixing and mastering and effects and all that producing bullshit that keeps a song from sounding good to sounding amazing. I downloaded the FL Studio demo and shit was a headache, and since I was using the family computer which was in the living room, I couldn’t really be on it too much to play around on it cause someone always needed to use it. I don’t really remember what inspired me at the time to want to start making music but it must’ve been something dope, I was a big Ja Rule fan at the time, as was everyone else, so no doubt some heavy influence comes from them. Yes, I’m 15 years old - think I started producing at around age 13. You’re 15, correct? When did you start producing and how did you learn? There’s no denying his talent (listen to “Find Out” and “Stay” below) and considering how young he is, there’s no doubt in my mind that he’ll have a long and productive career ahead of him. “NYU”, the opening track to The Basedprint 2 and a track that Lil B absolutely bodies, comes from the hands of the young producer.īelow, you can see my interview with Emerald Ruins. The Based God’s latest beatsmith of choice is the 15 year old Emerald Ruins who hails from the golden coast of California and has a certain knack for creating dreamy beats. From the very start of his solo career, The Pack‘s Lil B has shown impeccable taste in his beats, exposing us to the ethereal soundscapes of Clams Casino and Keyboard Kid.