These days I”m listening to a lot of Harry Fraud. I grew up listening to him, Just Blaze, etc. His stuff was probably like some of the first hip hop I ever heard to be honest. Like I told you earlier, my dad was heavy into Mobb Deep and produced like everything for them. I love The Alchemist, I grew up on The Alchemist. My favorite music producer is The Alchemist. Your sound is really eclectic and soulful, who would you say are your biggest influences musically?
I was surprised I even got booked to DJ anything (laughs). It was actually my first time down there so I was just stoked to even be down there. I was down there DJ’ing for a friend of mine Sean Falyon, and we had an event with SPIN magazine, then we had another event with Trinidad Jame$, and every event was packed. It had to be at least 3,000 people packed in there, so it’s between that Trinidad Jame$ concert I recently did, and probably every show I did at SXSW this year. The craziest show was probably Trinidad Jame$, that was a crazy show. Bone Thugs does a lot of stuff there too. I DJ at this metal club, historically it’s a metal venue, but they do hip hop shit there too. I’m more than positive that it was in Cleveland. When or where was the craziest set you ever did at a club? When I go into work on a beat I just basically spend 2 or 3 hours going through samples, figuring out what I’m gonna do and then I just go from there. I chop samples and most of my stuff is sample based. Well, I mean I have ideas when I go in, but the way I work in the studio is I take a week, you know, making beats and then the next week I just focus on collecting samples ’cause, ya know, that’s what I do. What is your creative process like? Do you have the beat pretty much figured out in your head before you go to create it? Or do you find one piece of the puzzle and go from there? So that’s exactly what happened, my 8th grade year my grades improved, I got some DJ equipment and some music production equipment like an MPC and stuff like that and it’s been on since then. I don’t know what happened but I just came out positive one day like “Yo Dad, I think I wanna do music” and he was like, “Alright, well cool, when you return back to school for 8th grade, if your grades improve I’ll have your back”. So, I was just basically at home with nothing to do and I remember I would just be at home listening to different mixtapes and different CDs and shit like that and watching MTV all day. I grew up listening to hip hop and my dad was from the golden era, ya know? I remember in middle school, I got expelled for an entire year, so I missed my entire 7th grade year of middle school. Well, You know my dad was always really into hip hop growing up, he’s the one that got me into like Mobb Deep and Wu-Tang and stuff like that. What first got you interested in DJ’ing and producing? We have a feeling you’re going to be hearing his name a lot more in the future.
RITTZ NEW ALBUM 2013 FULL
Stacks’ dream collaboration, some upcoming work with Strange Music artists, and more!Ĭheck the full interview below, and keep an eye out for this guy.
In the interview we got a few interesting tidbits, including M. Stacks.Įverything about “Like I Am” is so infectious, we just had to talk with M. It seems like the last 2 weeks have been all about Rittz’s upcoming Strange Music debut, and rightfully so.įour tracks from The Life And Times Of Jonny Valiant have been released so far, and we’ve even seen one set of visuals for the southern-fried single “Like I Am”, a track produced by Atlanta up-and-comer M.
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