Mattazik Talks Quitting Job for Music, Working With Lil Baby, Young Thug, Gunna & More

Mattazik Interview on the Producergrind Podcast. Our good friend and Atlanta based recording engineer/music producer stopped by the office so we could ask him questions about his come up and how he got to where he is today. He told us about how he moved to Atlanta from Mobile, Alabama to pursue his dream of being a music producer. He told us how it was actually beat battles that got him to start coming to ATL. After he finally pulled the trigger on moving he was engineering to make a living but after a string of bad luck he found himself working at a clothing store for 2 years until he linked up with the people at LoudHouse studios (Turbo & D.Sims) and he started landing engineer gigs and production placements. It wasn't an easy straightforward journey according to Matt. Fortunately, his skill in engineering was his leverage to get into situations that provided opportunity like recording Yung Thug, Lil Baby, Gunna, Hoodrich Pablo Juan & more. Because he was the engineer of the sessions he was able to pull up his beats and turn those sessions into placements. Matt drops a lot of music producer advice on the business, getting paid, networking, getting in the door & more. 🎹 Sound Kits: http://bit.ly/ProducergrindKits 👕 Producergrind Merch: http://bit.ly/ProducergrindMerch 1:03 Journey into the music industry 2:50 What is 48kHZ? 4:15 Difference between 44.1 kHz vs. 48 kHz 5:58 Becoming a music engineer and producer 8:55 Process of Transitioning to Atlanta 10:22 Were you interning on engineering as a job? 12:05 How were you making money when you moved to ATL? 13:19 Working at Underground ATL lead to music connections 16:48 Old Loudhouse Studios on the East side 17:42 Looking back, would you have stayed at your regular job as long as you did? Do you feel like it slowed you down at all? 20:19 Trinidad James blew up while working at the Underground 22:20 Advice to producers wanting to do music 24:20 Getting into sessions with artists 26:14 How to network at studios 28:30 What time and how long should I book studio sessions for? 31:20 Pulling up beats for Young Thug and the process behind getting paid 34:55 How to name beats for artists? 36:40 Getting paid from labels 40:44 How to handle bad business 42:10 Drip Harder Placement 45:39 Lil Baby calls Matt mid interview. 46:24 Benefits of engineering 48:50 Who would win in a fight a Sliverback Gorilla or a Grizzly Bear? Listen to this Podcast on iTunes: http://bit.ly/ProducergrindPodcast 🎙Hosted By @ceodylan @carrington_hill @producergrind 👥 Special Guest @mattazikmuzik @Jayrich_Laplaya 🎥 Directed by @cookitupkayo @Samo_ent #ProducergrindPodcast