Interview by Spitty

We recently traveled up to New York to holla at legendary producer, Rsonist of The Heatmakerz for a special Fat Beats Edition of “Off The Porch”! Best known for producing most of your favorite Dispet songs to Lil Wayne’s “Tha Mobb”, Rsonist shares his experiences growing up in the Bronx in a Jamaican household making music out of his moms basement and how his diverse music taste helped him create a lot of his ground work for sampling, while carving a lane for himself within the culture. Rsonist talks about jumping off the porch around 15 years old, often getting in trouble because he would sneak out the house to DJ parties and how he didn’t hear his first Hip-Hop record until he was a sophomore in high school. He discusses his first production placement with Canibus, transitioning from being a beat maker to being a producer, how he met Cam and how he ended up getting 9 beats on the Diplomatic Immunity project. He also gives his perspective on producers clearing music so that they can use the sample along with telling artists and producers how to peep game and pay attention to the business side of things as well as his new instrumental album The Anti Social Experiment, the motivation to do an instrumental album and more!

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