Beats are really inspiring. They always make me want to write something over them.
“Beats are really inspiring. They always make me want to write something over them.”
The World Motivation
Beats are really inspiring. They always make me want to write something over them.
“Beats are really inspiring. They always make me want to write something over them.”
Beats are really inspiring. They always make me want to write something over them.
I'm lucky that my family is musical. Music was encouraged. So when I saw Carlos Santana play and decided to really pursue the electric guitar in earnest, it was OK. My parents knew I was going to go for it.
Who didn't want to dance like Michael Jackson? I know I did.
When I was around 11, my dad took me to see Santana live, and then I got 'Sacred Fire,' and everything changed for me.
'Livin' on a Prayer,' 'Wanted Dead or Alive' - those are iconic songs.
In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is always present. You have faster stuff like the more commercialized stuff, but you always have that segment of music that is always from the core, from the original root of it.
The best is that one that beats everybody. I don't care about the rankings.
It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it's one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It's so frustrating at the time, but what's so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, 'I've got to get better.'
It's not that what LCD Soundsystem and Juan MacLean do is necessarily simple, but they are basic loops and beats and songs that are just pleasurable in a really basic way.