Since I started making beats, I was always intrigued by how i can produce at the level of the greatest hip hop producers ever. I would analyze each kick and snare drum placement on Q-Tips’s production, and how the velvety jazz samples would lace the entire track creating a home for Phife Dawg raspy voice to break through and for Q-Tips nasal intonations to glide. I grew up on 2000s hip hop, but I fell in love with the production techniques of 80s/90s hip hop, especially the Golden Age. When Kanye West came onto the scene, his fresh and more complex sound powered by soul samples and beautiful chord progressions changed the entire game forever in my eyes.

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