I’m sitting in the lab right now. I’ve been going through samples for the last couple hours or so.
Scrapping everything.
I’m my biggest critic. There has to be a certain something to make me want to go after a beat. I don’t know what it is, but if a sample is too ‘easy’, I’ll leave it alone. I know it’s not the best reasoning, but I have to love it first before you can. Maybe it’s the fact that I feel like I’m a step or two away from being seen/heard on a really large scale that creates this heightened sensitivity.
Or maybe it’s the idea that I can’t and won’t peddle mediocrity.
I hear people say all the time that you shouldn’t scrap beats because somebody will eventually think it’s something dope. No. How can I fully sell you something that I don’t fully believe in to begin with????
Either way, this has a lot o do with why I don’t make a whoooole bunch of beats like so many other people claim to do. I’ve said this from the beginning and I’ll say it all the time:
I’d rather make one really crazy, insane beat that’s gonna drive the world up a wall, than make 20 ‘okay’ beats.
1) I soooo remember that cartoon that the guy you have pictured however, i dont remember the guys name.
2) How can I fully sell you something that I don’t fully believe in to begin with????
….You cant.
I always thought it was just me. I hated making lame ass beats and they just sit there. I remember someone said in Scratch “Don’t throw away beats. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” I’m like, “Yeah, no thanks.”