Bapt

• Classic Thread ..... CTI talkin'

  Bapt

  February 2006
  Then I got into Jack McDuff. I used to got to sleep listening to that shit, thats where the jazz inluence came from. Album wise is started buying jazz first  then a lot of soul. 

  
  

  Growing up in Detroit

  
  

  For me everything was always music, like from school, to marching bands, going to church  my parents forced me into it  Im glad. They made me play an instrument. It was very strict and kind of rough because I wanted to hang out and do what everyone else did. I guess I wouldnt be doing what Im doing now  so I thank God for that. 

  
  

  What was happening club wise / DJs

  
  

  3 clubs 

  
  

  Dance Street  Techno Shelter

  Rhythm Kitchen  The first Underground Hip Hop club. 

  A very small percentage of Detroits population was going to this club and out of that club a lot of different MCs and DJs who were regulars, grew. Eminem for example.

  
  

  Dance & techno

  
  

  I used to also check out the dance and techno clubs, I love that music, disco classics  old school Sundays were incredible. Used to go to Chicago over there theyre into 

  something else. ShocK bar which my manager Timothy took me to. They were playing shit you would never hear in Detroit. In Chicago they would go further than standard classics.

  
  

  From 92

  
  

  Shopping a Slum Village tape around, then AMP Fiddler called me once again out of the blue. I hadnt talked to him in about a year and a half. There was a Tribe Called Quest concert. Amp, a good friend of Q  Tips recommended I bring my tape along. Cut a long story short Tip liked the beats, but wasnt too sure about what Slum Village were 

  saying, they were too Out there for him at the time. Tip managed me and thats when the Pharcyde came along. Madskills was the first artist on a major label that I produced in 1994, after that was the Pharcyde, then De La Soul.

  
  

  Influences

  
  

  My Dad, JBs, Jack McDuff, Sergio Mendez, Slave, Prince, Chaka Khan. Theres quite a few.

  
  

  
  

  Instruments

  
  

  Drums, keyboard, cello, trumpet, violin  mostly drums.

  
  

  If you werent making music

  
  

  Ok  either a director of X  rated movies, I cant lie Im 

  a nasty. Or Id be flying planes because I went to this crazy arse school in Detroit Davis Aerospace. There you could get your FAA license. I was thinking about going back, but the music started to take off.

  
  

  DJs

  
  

  The Wizard from Detroit brought more of the Hip Hop over. Mojo still going today play a lot of Parliament and Zapp sound to Detroit. DJ Fingers, DJ Zapp at the Dancestreet.

  
  

  
  

  Labels

  
  

  A lot of Verve, definitely CTI, Disco labels Salsoul Started buying records in 1989 Re- started collecting records in 1995. Production came from DJing. I was curious about how records were made. 

  
  

  
  

  Whodinis Big Mouth.

  
  

  I Always tell that story  I didnt understand how the drum sounds were made because they didnt sound like anything on a Stevie Wonder record and it just fucked my head up. So eventually one day I met this guy called Amp Fiddler, A keyboard player who guided me and let me see how records were made and also introduced me to different musical forms. He had a record collection I used to dig through  he really got me. I just met him walking around in tie dye clothes looking all crazy, into the Hip Hop thing. And he said, 'are you guys rappers or something?' I told him I was doing production but I was doing it on tape decks. So he was like oooh man, come on in and he showed me how to work the MPC.

  
  

  First Production

  
  

  Front Street  by First Down who is actually Phat Kat  who Im still messing with.

  
  

  
  

  R.I.P. JAY DEE