![]() And I think I applied that when becoming an artist. And people would be like, “Wow, who the fuck is Patsy Cline!” ( Laughs) If you wanted to be a part of the scene, you had to know your history, you would dig through records, memorize album covers, read the liner notes… My understanding of music became this collection of visual and audio history. But as soon as hip hop started and I heard early DJs creating these sounds, that just took me! It was a really great time to be a kid, just discovering that you could make new music out of sampling other stuff, taking Patsy Cline and putting it next King Tubby. I really liked early heavy metal stuff in high school. A lot of arena rock, like, Led Zeppelin is still one of my favorites of all time… Black Sabbath, too. Almost everything I did, whether I was working out in the gym or doing homework, music has always been on! I was that kid whose parents would be saying, “Can you turn the music down and study?” ( Laughs) Music was also always in our house, especially reggae and dub!Īside from dub and reggae, what were you listening to back then? It’s always been like that for me even when I was growing up. ![]() Well, music is a major part of how I make art, so that's the first thing I do when I get in: I turn on some music, then I make coffee, then I start looking around the studio to see what I'm going to do. Simmons, what’s the first thing you do when you go into your studio in the morning? ![]()
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