I Just Want To Make Music As

I Grew Up In The '80s And '90s Listening To Public Enemy And Mobb Deep And The Smashing Pumpkins. I Don't Even Know What It Was Like In The '60s - I Wasn't Alive Then - So The Mayer Hawthorne Sound Is Taking What I Can Learn From The Classics, And Blending It With My Hip-hop Dj And Producer Background And Punk-rock Bands That I Played In As A Kid.

A Lot Of People Think I Live In A Soul Bubble.

I Love Doing Things That People Don't Expect.

A Big Part Of The Motown Formula Was, They Took Music And Turned It Into This Sort Of Automotive Assembly Line. They Were Cranking Out 10 Songs A Day In That Studio, Or More.

Hip-hop Was My First Real Love, One That Was My Own And Wasn't My Parents' Music. Initially, I Was Inspired By Hip-hop Fashion. Over The Years, I Kept The Hip-hop Sensibility, But Make It My Own.