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DJ Khalil Interview Abcdrduson: Can you give us a background about who you are?Dj Khalil: I’m from Los Angeles. I started deejaying and making beats in High School in 91. I started the group Self Scientific in my junior year in college in Atlanta with my partner Chace. That’s when I’ve bought my own equipment and I was really making beats everyday and I decided I wanted to be an artist at that point. We started Self Scientific which is an underground L.A. based hip-hop group. After school we put out 12 inches and we basically founded our own label and dropped our first album in 2001. From there I just kept producing and I’ve been doing a lot of stuff, one of my first major beat placements were for Ras Kass and Keith Murray. Soon after that I’ve met Dr. Dre and I was doing some work with one of his artist that he has signed named Brooklyn and he really liked my work and he decided to bring me on board. From there I started working, just building my name up, just working with Dre and his artists and I started working with G Unit and from there it took off.
A: How have you met Muggs?
K: I met Muggs personally around 2000. I’ve met him a several times before through Chace and his cousin Bigga B. We just developed a relationship with him. We did a song with Self Scientific on “Soul Assassins II” and from there he just became a fan of our music. We stayed in touch. He and Chace have a really good relationship. He’s like a legend out here, I mean just period in hip hop. We decided to have a company together and we have started Angeles Records.
A: What is the most important thing that you have learned working with him?
K: In terms of business, he is really just on point. He understands the value and just putting out the music that’s gonna be timeless. He knows how to turn incredible music into the industry. He’s able to spin off and connect with a lot of people, Soul Assassins is a brand alone that means so many different things with the fashion, the tattoo with Mr Cartoon, and all those people are a part of a movement. He’s about starting movement and that’s a thing that Muggs and Dre have in common. That’s what I’ve learned from him. Even creatively, he knows how to put albums together. He comes from an era when every album was classic. He’s from the Golden Era of hip hop. He put out classic records back then so he is really dope at putting classic records out. That’s for the most part what I’ve learned from him : the business side and creatively how to put out album and how to make a movement and no matter what plays on the radio and no matter what’s going on you have to be true to your sound and where you come from.
A: When and how the idea of Angeles Records did come about?
K: Chace and I were still recording and we were no longer signed to our previous label and Muggs was not really doing the Cypress Hill thing anymore. He wanted to start something new. We both had interests in putting out music and creating a new movement. There is no Rawkus’ type label when it comes to the West Coast, that has that underground sound but which has still that commercial appeal as well. We kind of start our own movement and put out our own records. We were tired of what was coming out, on the underground too, there were some music that we were hearing and there was a place for the type of music that we made. It is conscious music and it is real hip hop and a lot of people can relate to it on a whole different level. That’s how it started : we put out music that we wanted to hear.
A: What’s your position out there?
K: I’m part owner and I’m a partner in the label. I’m pretty much along with Muggs handling the production.
A: When and how have you first met Dre?
K: I met Dre around 2002. He had an artist that he signed named Brooklyn and I did a few of the songs on her demo which he really liked and he wanted to keep them for the album. Actually, I met Dre way before that. I was like 13, 14 years old.
A: Oh word?
K: Yeah, I met him when I was much younger at a friend’s party, a person I’m really close with. I remember talking to him with my brother, I would ask him all these questions because I really wanted to be a DJ and a producer and he talked to us for about half an hour. It was one of the craziest moments ever! We couldn’t believe it! N.W.A and all that, it was just huge! And you know he is a legend as being a DJ. He used to put out mixtapes and I still got them. There is a Public Enemy megamix that he did that I still have on tape. It was crazy because he really loved Public Enemy. N.W.A. to me is like an extension of Public Enemy. I was heavily influenced by Public Enemy and I have this megamix that I should put on CD and offer it to Dre one day in order to surprise him. I have every piece of vinyl that he has released. So for me to meet him and talk to him that day was unbelievable. He remembered it when I saw him again and we laughed about it. We already had a kind of connection but he really loved my music on that demo. At the time I had so many beats because I was making 9 to 10 beats a day so they wanted to hear more stuff and I hit them with more joints. After a while, he was mixing 50’s album and he sat me down and he was like: “Man I want to sign you. I want to bring you in.” I couldn’t believe it. [laughs] So I was like: “Of Course!”[laughs]
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