Hey I got a reality check today, my man Dre Knight of the production team the Narcotics and producer for Stimuli one of the sickest MC's right now,
www.shastimuli.com dropped thru my lab today, he let me hear his new mixtape coming out and some tracks no one has heard Stimuli on and they were hot...the songs on the site are hot but you have to have heard the album material , he is absolutely one of the sickest producers I have seen or worked with and if you think 9th wonder is sick, he is currently working with Just Blaze right now because I think he is producing 5 tracks for Stimuli too...LOL...he not only flips samples like most hip hop producers, he's very accomplished musician, songwriter etc...hes produced stuff for Carl Thomas too so you know he is nice with the keys( I mean unbelievably gifted) and also doing hip hop...he has to be the most versatile producer and since he just inked in his deal with Virgin you are gonna hear more about him real soon....allhiphop.com and the source is already giving him props, I don't generally kiss other producers asses either...LOL but he showed me a couple things in my lab that need to be changed big time which I sort of already knew, he came thru though and worked out on MY equipment in the lab, made a couple of tracks and gave out pointers and showed me how his process is.....the weak point in my setup shined thru with someone else to put their eyes on your setup that has worked out in Top Notch million dollar labs....I had wrong cables, also he showed me some reasons why my sound isn't anywhere as near as good as it can be, I have been using my triton for loading my samples only because its easier to chop but I sell myself short, he showed me how to chop on the 3000 but recommended I get a 1000 or 2000...(which already had a fully loaded 2000 and sold it damn...) but the main thing about him is he told me most of my material is sub par, he let me hear his instrumentals ALL SOLID MUSICAL material, he told me I might luck out and sell something on a major but he gave me some pointers on chord structure and how to interpolate your samples, pick out melodies and chords in the sample and add to it and even make chord changes....he places samples and plays all around so you would never even notice the sample, he had this hot marvin gaye sample that was incredible .......anyhow it pays to team up with some other producers that have their shidd tight, that will go a long ways.....bottom line he told me he was going to help me but I have to take his advice and keep honing my craft.....and just concentrate on my overall package, keep it consistent and I will get there.........