Musician

I love how music can create an audiovisual experience. To me, some of the best music is the music that does that.

I'm a hip hop dude who loves scoring for film.

As a freelance artist, you have to please somebody instead of just making music. But when the employer trusts and leans on you to determine what is right for a scene or feeling, that's ideal.

I've always been a big fan of Kendrick's, but it's different when you hear him on your own production.

When you get older, you try to get what you wanted as a kid. Maybe you wanted an arcade in your house or Q-Tip rapping on your beats.

Generally, as a composer, it's perceived as an employer-employee relationship.

I love sampling, and RZA loves sampling, too.

The ramifications that you set for yourself can inspire you to do things that you would have never thought of because, once you're trapped, your job is to persevere.

Like with me, like around '97, for Christmas my parents bought me an MPC 2000 sampler and a little eight-track cassette recorder. And I started sampling records and, you know, producing hip-hop beats. And it got to the point where I realized - I innately realized that the music I liked the most was made by people that played instruments.

'Luke Cage' is a gift. There's so many different ways you can look at it.

When Curtis Mayfield made 'Super Fly,' he used the lyric to make a statement.

When I did 'Venice Dawn,' there were times where people would cry after listening to it.

My studio is fully analog. There's nothing modern. There's not even a computer in my studio.

I'm a film composer, but I'm a hip-hop guy.

It's important to the world to see superheroes that are spread across our demographic.

I love the song 'Picasso Baby,' and I think the performance art piece was brilliant. I love that fact that Jay Z is continuing to raise the bar on hip hop.

I grew up, and I'm getting the chance to make music with the people I idolized.

'Luke Cage' is a gift. There's so many different ways you can look at it.

I always compare myself to what I did last, so I've got to try and beat what I did last. I'm always upping my own bar.

A lot of people record on a laptop and use plug-ins, which might be OK for the kind of music that they're doing. But for the kind of music that I'm doing, that just doesn't work. I can't cut corners; everything has to be organic.