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Black Milk - Tronic - Interview
Black Milk is truly one of Detroit's most dedicated and talented up and coming artists. His new album, Tronic, just dropped on Fat Beats. Tronic, has a fresh but classic feel. Check out what he has to say about it.
Black Milk - "Try"
La Famiglia- First tell us a little bit about the new album...
Black Milk- The new album Tronic is dropping October 28th. It’s a new sound for me, it’s a new direction that I took with the music. It’s like a futuristic soul sound. It’s just something new and fresh, just a different sound for hip-hop music. I hope everybody, when they hear the album they get the vision, I can’t wait to see how people respond to it after they listen to it.
La Famiglia- How is Tronic different from past projects you've worked on?
Black Milk- I just wanted to do something new, myself. There really wasn’t a certain album or a certain artist that inspired me to do something new, it was just something that I wanted to do anyways. I try not to come with the same sound that I did with the last project, so I definitely wanted to do something different than popular demand. So I stepped all the way out of that category of soul chops and soul loops, I wanted to kinda go futuristic and synth heavy since I really haven’t been able to do that side of music.
La Famiglia- What were some of your early influences in music?
Black Milk- When I was at a younger age a lot of stuff my parents were playing, just old soul records. From the Al Green’s to the Marvin Gaye’s. And you know, the Smokey Robinson’s and The Miracles, all those old soul artists. I would say the people that inspired me and influenced me to get into hip-hop and especially to do beats, was of course J Dilla, DJ Premier, and Pete Rock. I was listening to a lot of their music when I first started doing beats. You know, Soul Survivor, and a lot of Gangstar, a lot of Slum Village stuff. Dilla beat CD's, all that stuff.
La Famiglia- Did you start rhyming or producing beats first?
Black Milk- I was rhyming before I got into production, I was just writing and recording songs, and I was even interested in making beats. One day it all turned around and just clicked. I tried it out, I kept doing it for so long I developed an ear for music, and ear for samples. I just kinda went full fledge with it. I started buying my own equipment and mastering my craft as a producer. And that’s basically how I got into it.
La Famiglia- How has the scene in Detroit influenced your attitude towards the industry?
Black Milk- Most people from Detroit, their just laid back and real chill. We really just do what we want to do. We don’t like to take answers from nobody, we just want to create what we want to create. Me having that same attitude, I rather stay on an independent label before I sign to a major. Its just unpredictable if I’m going to put a project out, or it’s a possibility that my project might get shelved, or I might not be making the music they want. I’d rather just stay independent. It’s not really about the money, well it’s about the money, but at the same time with me it’s more about the music, and creating some sort of legacy for myself. That’s how I feel, and it comes from having a Detroit attitude. We’re going to do what we want to do, we want what we want, and that’s how it is. I think that’s one of the main reasons we are the underdogs right now cause we’re not going to settle for less. We’re not going to dumb our shit down so we can make a dollar.
La Famiglia- Are there a few artists from Detroit that you feel have not got the press the deserve?
Black Milk- There’s a few artists on the up and coming that I think are dope and talented. Hopefully they get the exposure they need so people can here more of their music. Like this artist I’ve already worked with, people already might know, Fat Ray. I think he’s one of the dopest lyricists out of Detroit. His voice, delivery, how he comes across on the track is dope to me so I hope people the chance to hear more of his music and different styles of Fat Ray. There’s another cat named Danny Brown that’s really on the up and coming out of Detroit which is another cat that has a dope flow, a dope voice. And people should be expecting to here some stuff from him in the next year. Fat Nametag, another dope lyricist, he’s like a young eLZhi or something like that. Those are just a few artists I think are real talented on the hip-hop side people should check out. There’s this chick named Melanie Rutherford, her voice is ridiculous. She’s actually on my album too, so I think that I’m trying to work with her on some stuff over the next year. People should check out her music.
La Famiglia- Any advice for aspiring artists?
Black Milk- Yeah, stay creative. Stay fresh. Try to come up with something new that most artists and most producers aren’t doing. That’s the way you stay in the game by creating your own sound, creating your own lane. I know in the beginning a lot of artists and producers are inspired by somebody. Most of their music might even sound like the artists they were inspired by in the beginning. But eventually you gotta create your own sound and that’s what’s really going to take you to that next level. Most artists these days are just doing whatever formula works to get them on the radio, get them on the videos, TV or whatever. Artists that have longevity, and will be able to see long money, that stay traveling, and stay doing shows, and have more than a two-three year career. Create a certain sound, stay focused, and don’t let nothing push you from doing what you want to do in the music scene.
Black Milk's Official Myspace - www.myspace.com/blackmk
Fat Beats - www.fatbeats.com
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