Blap chat

More kits I just dropped three amazing drum packs and kits if you go to Blapkit.com you can check those out. Setting up some more workshops getting my podcasts back up and running, I have a podcast called blap chat and it’s you guessed it one and a half hour podcast on everything music production. So continuing to do blap chat, more workshops, kits and cool one off tidbits for the producer community. But definitely a lot in the works right now just trying to end the year right and go off into 2017 hard. Can we expect another solo Illmind project soon?I’ve dropped beat tapes before but I’ve never released an official Illmind album, I’m definitely officially just now starting it in my mind so right now I’m just putting ideas together and brainstorming the different artists I want to bring in but definitely expect that in the future, I don’t want to say 2017 or 2018, it could be next summer or 2020 but I’m finally in that space to do an ill mind album. Aside from that still working with a bunch of people there’s placements that’ll happen in a lot of different places in 2017 some I don’t know about yet but I know are coming. And some stuff recently this Hamilton mixtape, I’m all over that mixtape I produced a record with Nas and Dave East, I produced a record on there with the Roots and Common, co-produced a record with Kelly Clarkson and I also have my own little interlude on that project so that and then the Disney stuff. Disney just dropped a movie called Moana which is the number one movie in the nation right now it’s a Disney Pixar movie and I produced a song on the soundtrack called You’re Welcome

What happened, this is making real money, this is crazy. So I realized there was a demand for it, and at the time there really weren’t any music producers putting out their own kits. The culture of music production was, if you have drum sounds, you don’t share them. Like DJ Premier is not going to put his snare out on “Moment of Truth.” So I was kind of the first to say, you know what, a producer on my level at the time, let me just do it. So it became successful and from there it clicked in my mind that this is a business, there’s a demand for this, this is inspiring people. So then I migrated to an official website, Blapkits.com, and five years later it’s become pretty much the number one source for drum sounds, kits, sample loops, and it’s really helped spark a culture of producer drum kits. I’m not going to take credit and say I was the first one to do it, but I’m not going to let anyone refute that I was the first one to bring it to the mainstream level and make it OK. It’s great it kind of blew up into this thing, and now the sounds are everywhere. Pretty much what you hear on pop radio, rhythmic radio, you’ll hear a Blap Kit in there somewhere. What was it like when you heard a record use one of your kits. What was the record and what did they use?I think probably the biggest one like oh this is on a big album was on Drake’s album NWTS, there’s a blap kit on “Furthest Thing,” I think it was Blap Kit vol. 4. Shoutout to my man Jake One who produced that, it’s the second half of “Furthest Thing.”

Love, or every song you work on with an artist doesn’t necessarily get to come out. What unreleased material have you worked on with an artist that you really hope comes out someday?Honestly, I don’t even believe this to be true for myself, but I believe some of the greatest music ever created is somewhere sitting on a hard drive. Imagine what Kanye’s hard drives look like, Dre’s massive hard drives. So I believe there’s amazing music that we’ve yet to hear, and unfortunately we’re not going to be able to hear it all. There’s a lot of music on my hard drive that I would love for people to hear. An example is that I did this project in January of last year. This was after the holidays and I’m back in the studio, I have this blank canvas and I’m ready to create something, and so I decided to create this project where I’m not following any formats, it’s just me going in and creating in the moment. I kind of like to compare it to Jackson Pollack, this painter where his style is that he has a blank canvas and a bunch of colors and he’ll just splatter random colors and different paint techniques, and he’ll just do it in the moment. It doesn’t make sense necessarily but he’s living in the moment and doing it, so this is sort of my Jackson Pollack audio project. I only played it for a few people, I finished it and had a hell of a lot of fun doing it, and I kind of did that for myself. So hopefully that comes out if and when it makes sense, but I’m kind of excited for people to eventually hear that one. Let’s talk about blap and Blap Kits. How

Did that all start?Blap Kits are basically drum kits for music producers So if you’re a music producer, there’s this culture where you find sounds and different tools to be able to produce music. It started with the old beat machines, the SP12 or and the MPC, where you had drums loaded up, and then [came] the culture of digging for drum samples and chopping up snares and kicks to use in your production. So long story short, one day in 2011 I woke up and I was like, man I wish I had some J Dilla drums. I used to always go to his records and jack his drums and manipulate them, so one day I was like yo, I wonder if there’s producers out there that would want an Illmind drum kit, so I thought of the word “blap.” It’s a term that derives from the Bay Area, that’s what they call beats. I took some of my drum sounds from older production that I had on my ASR 10 keyboard, which is like the old joint from the 90s. And I was just like let me take 30 snares, 30 kicks, 30 hi-hats and some percussion sounds, put them in a zip folder, and then sell them on my website. I posted it on my blog, at the time Twitter was still kind of new and I think I had around 1,000 or 2,000 followers. So I tweeted it, I emailed it to a couple of people, and that’s it. Before I did this I was like, what’s the price I’m going to charge for this? In my head I had $20, reasonable price. So I did it, and I woke up the next morning and see almost like $2,000 in my Paypal account. I’m like, yo