I started music when I was 13 years old and I didn’t have a producer, so I had to figure it out myself. Everyone kind of like left me out there and my mom didn’t have any connections, my father was out of the game, and I basically took money – because I was still acting – and bought a motif keyboard and a great computer and some pro tools and a great microphone and some speakers and started to produce my own records. And I was great at making beats, but I had no idea how to mix them down. So I went into engineering school, and I was still was in high school at the time, in home school, and I hadn’t graduated yet. I think I was the first person they ever let into the school without a high school diploma.

I have a degree in recording engineering, which is really helpful. I love looking at old records and stuff like that because I started before I got into production. I wanted to DJ, so my mom would drop me off at the Boys and Girls Club in Santa Monica and I would literally go there and just sit behind two turn tables and learn how to be a battle DJ. I would study different records of old school hip hop and stuff like that.  It was insane. So I learned how to DJ, and after that I was like – I can do this myself. I had a karaoke machine with two different tape decks attached to it, and I would try and make beats by recording one sound onto another. But give me some vinyl and some turn tables, I’m good to go. I will mix any record.

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