PRODUCER OF THE WEEK

So our in house producer Professor Xavier just got named producer of the week on http://www.solidarityrecords.com/. Hit the link and sign up..Congrats fam!!


Aiight what's up everybody! I'm Professor Xavier comin from PITTSBBURG California! I make underground sample based hip-hop beats! Lets see here I started out fallin in love with music as a child, I was exposed to all that good oldies from my parents and other family members at a real young age and ever since then I couldn't do anything with out it. I couldn't go any where with out headphones on, was always dubbin tapes off the radio when little makin my own mixes n shit like that. As time went on I started diving deep into underground hip-hop, seemed like that scene always had more to offer. (groups like hieroglyphics, living legends, bored stiff, etc) By the time I was in high school I was deep in the lifestyle, in summer school writin rhymes to pass the times (ooohhh! haha) I knew a cat who made beats and I've always wanted to get involved with music some how so I'd sit back and try to learn what he was doin (I eventually got the programs he was usin to make beats) then months later he met this group by the name of VERBAL TAKTIKS and they were young cats with their own apartment so we'd gather there, rhyme, make beats and party. They were dope, so I'd just sit back, soak it all in, then when I'd return home I'd practice what I learned, I even got better than some of the people I was learnin from! I did this on and off, didn't get too serious till after high school. I use FL studio, cool edit to chop samples and drums from records and a weak gemini turntable and stanton mixer to listen to records. I've been told my beats can make you sit and think, I love bein able to make something that fits my mood. I love dirty/gritty drums! I'd say I've mainly got a bored stiff/east coast influence when pickin and choosin samples and drums. I in-house produce for Verbal Taktiks and I'm currently workin with Equipto and the bored stiff fam. Equipto said it best. I feel these few bars right here suit me well: "Every day I wake up and grab a tape, or cd of hip-hop and try to get away/ contemplatin the break and decodin the rhyme/ and I fall into the rhythm of every line" thats how I start the day, EVERY DAY! Special thanks to equipto for contactin' me out of nowhere 'cause he felt my shit! shouts out to VERBAL TAKTIKS! they're beasts, watch out for them! Shouts out to Bored Stiff no matter what, always keepin it real and original, you guys make hiphop fun!!! 2010 is a huge year no joke!!!!