I Used To Be A Serious Sneaker

D'angelo Could Sing The Phonebook And It Would Sound Good.

So Sometimes If I'm Working With A Rapper, Like Ghostface Killah Or Nas, Producing Usually Means, In Hip-hop, That You Make The Music. You Make The Beat, And You Give It To Them. And They Write The Rhymes.

My Mother Was Pretty Strict. I Hated It, But Maybe It Made Me A Bit More Sensible.

Then, You Know, The Other More-traditional Role Of The Producer In, Like, The Kind Of Quincy Jones Sense Is Kind Of Part Arranger. So You're Coming Up With, Like, These - You Hear These Songs That Are Quite Bare-bones, And You Dream Up What's The Band Doing? What's The Rhythm Section Doing? What's The Guitars, Strings, Pianos - That Sort Of Thing. It's Almost Like A Little Toolbox.

I Think, You Know, For Me, Whatever I Need To Slot Into To Make That Music The Best It Can Be Or Help The Artists, Or Whoever I'm Working With, Achieve Whatever Vision They Have In Their Head For A Song.