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How to Be a Successful Beat Maker
Gil was always very good at saying to me, are you making beats? Are you making records? And I really... Because I know you really like it. Yes, I loved doing that. And when I didn't do it, it really wasn't good for me. So Liam had said to me, have you got a laptop, an Apple laptop with reason on it? You're going to like this. This is good beat making stuff. That led into me learning how to use logic. Then Kanye had a song on his second album called My Way Home which was sampling Gil's Home is Where the Hatred is with common rapping over it. And I remember hearing it and thinking
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