(Musician, Producer) I first met Dan Nakamura, AKA Dan the Automator, when I shot his album and press kit for his band, Got a Girl," with our mutual friend Mary. Dan has been a hip hop producer who's work has been heard for the past 30 years in a variety of genre's of music. Though his work he has collaborated with the greatest musicians and gathered insight and wisdom about creativity, art and music. Today I sit down with him in the East Village to talk about art. 

Some topics we go over:

• Adding distraction to remove the pressure 
• Validation through Commercializations contrasted to Validation through art 
• Make the art you want to make 
• Likeminded people find eachother to make awe
• Doing what makes you happy without compromise 
• Creating your own world with a do or die attitude 
• Working with odd, different people, who drum to their own beat that are in the world in spite of the world 
• Using your humor for difficult subjects
• The joy of the ups and downs
• The future of music

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