Just Blaze was the latest guest on Snoop Dogg’s GGN. The two focused on Blaze’s career talking about how his 2014-2015 went, getting into scoring, who he would like to work with the most outside of hip-hop, what his top three favorite albums are, and how he maintains his hip-hop aura.
On touring in 2014-2015:
“2015 and 2014 I’ve been doing a lot of touring. I’ve been on the road heavily. I had a record that kind of broke out in the EDM world about two years ago. And you know like homeboys used to say ‘what record changed your life?’ You know that put me on a whole different course gave me a whole new fanbase and I went from sitting in the studio 24 hours a day to all of a sudden playing to crowds of 24,000 people. Now that I’m back off the road for a bit I’m wrapping up the new Slaughterhouse album. So we’re in the last phases of that and hopefully that will be out to the world by the end of the year.”
On scoring:
“So a couple of years back I got a random phone call from a homie of my mine asking me to help them out with the A-Team movie. Then they called me back two, three years later out of nowhere like ‘hey you wanna work on Ice Age?’ And that’s real money. So I ended up doing that and I actually just got a call from them they want me to fly back to LA as I finish this last run that I’m on and go over a few other projects.”
On maintaining his hip-hop aura:
“Well you know I’m from New Jersey so the area I grew up in north Jersey it was always about hip-hop and house music. They kind of co-existed. It was one of the few places at that time in the 90s where you could go to a party and hear say Redman and then hear Cashmere on the same night. So I always kind of had that sensibility of both, I grew up with both. People always ask ‘What’s the transition like?’ I have to explain to people it’s actually not a transition it’s me getting to expose another side of what I do. Something I grew up loving to [show to] the rest of the world. To some people I’m a brand new act.”
On who he would like to work with the most outside of hip-hop:
“It’s outside of hip-hop, but it’s actually a foundation of hip-hop. I would say James Brown. He was the architect that kind of gave us our foundation. He understood music he didn’t know music. He couldn’t sit there and chart something out for you or notate a record. He just said yo, ‘Bobby you do this. Clyde you do this. Alright you do this, you do this. Play.’ It was just that live energy. Part of the reason why his records are so good is because there’s a lot of spontaneous energy to them because a lot of those records were done on the fly. I understand that because I feel like a lot of my biggest hit records when I think back to them a lot of them have always been spontaneous.”
Watch the full interview above.
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