DJ Burn One Talks Industry Plants, Drugs & Tour Life, Superfly + More

Atlanta legend DJ Burn One stopped by the Producergrind office today for an exclusive podcast interview. We talked over an hour with Burn One covering everything from his come up & early entrepreneurial ventures, making beats for Gucci Mane & A$AP Rocky, doing drugs to pass time while on tour, his role behind the scenes in the new Superfly movie score, his production team "Five Points Bakery", What are industry plants and industry plant meaning, & much more. Enjoy this hour long podcast interview filled with producer advice and music business talk. 2:17 How DJ Burn One got started in the game 3:20 Being from Atlanta but not having a signature trap sound 4:58 Working with Walt Live & Go Ricky Go 6:23 DJ Burn One's household musical influences growing up 7:24 Taking a year off from DJing to learn how to make beats 8:57 Starting off in Sony Acid Pro 9:22 Selling mixtapes in high school 10:43 Always listened when OGs gave advice 12:38 Tour life and struggling with alcoholism 14:47 Using FL in high school 16:50 Reading Gucci’s book 21:03 The culture of Five Points 22:52 Working with live musicians 25:25 His thoughts on The Art of Organized Noize documentary on Netflix 30:28 Not getting paid by A$AP Rocky 32:50 On convincing Gucci to do mixtapes 34:18 Public perception of him and A$AP Rocky's relationship 36:45 The Umm Factor - Describing The Culture of 5 Points Bakery 38:13 His group iNDEED 38:57 Creating their own sample catalogue 41:16 Artists selling themselves instead of selling songs 46:14 Working with Bubba Sparxx and seeing him get pigeonholed into a character 47:08 Parallels between rap and wrestling 48:50 Defining what an "industry plant" is and examining the case of A$AP Rocky 52:20 Record labels know if your numbers are fake 54:44 Pop now has hip hop drums 56:49 Overrated/Underrated -Thrift Store shopping -Limewire -Backwoods -Tour life -Big commercial studios 1:02:52 What's next for DJ Burn One 1:03:33 Superfly soundtrack 1:05:00 On putting on a producer masterclass 1:06:30 His philosophy on helping people 1:07:11 Hack on learning how to produce 1:11:42 Being able to admit what you don't know 1:12:12 Shut the fuck up and learn something 1:13:34 Pro tip for 808 mixing 1:15:36 DJ Burn One on social media Producergrind Merch: https://merch.producergrind.com/ Sound Kits: https://producergrind.com/shop/ Hosted By @ceodylan @theletterlbeats @carrington_hill @producergrind Special Guest @djburnone Directed by @cookitupkayo