On a mission to find out more about the man behind the beatz, SoulCulture TV sat down with Ski Beatz at Damon Dash’s creative base of operations in New York, DD172, and asked the producer about his beginnings in Hip Hop — as a rapper first.
Watch below as Ski talks us through his journey from the mic to the boards, from getting jaded by the industry and moving home to North Carolina to more recently returning to New York to work with a new breed of emcees and how his initial passion for rapping gives him the edge when producing for top rappers.
I feel him, when I worked at unique recordings before it closed down things were ruthless…. the interns, assistants and almost anyone on the staff would kill each other in order to step into the studio with anybody that was a somebody
If you know how to do things behind the mic yourself, it is so much easier producing. It definitely helped me do what I had to do when I was doing it…
Now there’s just not enough money in the industry for most people to get back and do it full time
Dope interview, Ski is def in my top 5 underated producers!
Pilot talk 1 & 2 both made my top 10 last year, & I plan to cop them
on vinyl if they are ever get a vinyl release. Instrumentals would be nice too. That first Camp Lo cd is classic.
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May 10th, 2011 at 6:07 am
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