FLEX
ON THA BEAT

How and when did you get into producing? Can you briefly walk us through your story?

I wouldn’t call it much of a story yet, though it may be the start of one. I loved playing sports and listening to music growing up. I grew up listening to primarily hip-hop, rap, R&B, and other sub genres of hip-hop, and would freestyle some days with my day one homie “Young G” for fun. I also played the trumpet, a little clarinet, and percussion in band growing up but I NEVER thought I'd be producing music and engineering 10 years later. One day my senior year or post graduation I had two bros who made beats regularly at the time and I thought it was the coolest thing but knew nothing about it. Then that motivated me to start studying music production and beat making, I remember I’d watch a hour or two worth of tutorials on FL studio and just take notes everyday like crazy. For a year and half at least before making anything. My first 2-5 beats I ever made once I was able to purchase FL studio and a laptop were just trashhhhh. Didn’t even sound like hip-hop. Fast forward a year and half, I was making decent beats that I felt comfortable enough to post. That's when I moved to Chicago to work and keep making music for fun. I got to a point where I wanted to take my musical passion to the next level a couple years later, so I reached out to RRFC (Recording Connections recording institute). They helped me get in and signed up for the right course and I started school for music production/audio engineering. AND THERE YOU HAVE IT, FLEX ON THA BEAT DID IT, and will continue to do it!

Tell us about your music. How is it unique to you?

My music is unique to me I feel due to the influences I have from being born in the 90’s and listening to music from the 90’s all the way to today’s music. I was listening to 50 Cent as a kid and listen to Lil Uzi and others now days, and that’s a big difference. I am not a one dimensional producer who only makes trap or lofi beats, or whatever. I am versatile and am learning everyday. I think DJ Khaled is so well known for that reason, not only is he a good DJ/Producer but he is so versatile and works with so many different types of artists.

Everyone has their preferred DAW. Which one is yours and why?

I started in FL as I mentioned. I love producing and do most if not all of my production in FL Studio, however I learned to use Pro Tools since I started school. I use Pro Tools for most if not ALL of my mixing, mastering and recording artists. Pro Tools is great for all of that.