Just Blaze
Justin Smith the First: taming rappers' egos since '99
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I had to sleep at the studio I was interning at. I had to sleep under the couch for a week.
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Jay[-Z] wouldn’t care if your grandmother walked in with beats. If she had a hot beat? He's rapping on it.
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I make my sessions as entourage-free as possible. I hate the entourage. You don’t rap, you don’t sing. Beat it!
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Interviewer
Torsten Schmidt
A long-time music scribe for leading German club/pop culture gazettes and national newspapers, and one of the founding members of the Red Bull Music Academy crew, Tor has been around since before day one. He's rubbed shoulders on the couch with everyone from Bob Moog to A-Trak, and as if amassing a definitive collection of vintage synths and drum machines didn't show enough loyalty to the cause, he also keeps faith with notorious Bundesliga underdogs, 1. FC Kaiserslautern.
