You Have To Put These Hooks In

Stevie Wonder Doing 'we Can Work It Out' By The Beatles Is One Of My Favorite Records Of All Time.

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.

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.

I Didn't Really Get That Good At Cutting Because I Didn't Have Those Three Years Of Gestating And Nurturing My Skills In The Bedroom. I Was Kind Of, Like, Out And Playing In Clubs After Three Of Four Months, Because I Was Pushy With Promoters. But I Would Just Listen To The Radio - Stretch Armstrong And Red Alert - And Then I Would Go Hang Out With Mayhem, Who Did The Wnyu Hip-hop Show.

And Sometimes, I'd Be Allowed To Be Hanging Out In The Studio, Which I Just Loved Kind Of, Like, Being In The Room With These Big Recording Desks, With All These, Like, Buttons And Knobs And Watching The Guys Use Them.