I’m at a different part of my journey where it’s nice to be able to create. I feel more, literally and creatively, free. I hit this stride, like in the last year, where I’m letting go and creating. Chronically, I’ve been an over-thinker for most of my career. It’s been such a bleak year, but I’m excited because I’ve been in a very productive space. I guess I’m kind of white trash, but if there’s any ranch in the vicinity, it’s going in some ranch. They don’t get enough props.ĭo you put anything on them, like mustard? People might come after me, and I almost tweeted this out a couple of weeks ago. Just plain pretzels? Not even the little peanut butter pretzel bites? I fuck with it, but it is definitely overrated. I would say the most overrated thing right now is TikTok. But that’s a conversation for another day. Kanye was my idol up until the red hat, everything, and trying to derail the recent election.
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If you trace the lineage, even my VST patch choices when I’m in a session with the producer are really on some Postal Service shit, but I’m trying to push it into a hip-hop form. So I was able to combine both those worlds into the nucleus of what I ended up becoming and developing into. At that time, I was working with Just Blaze frequently. A couple of years ago, and a couple of projects ago, I ended up working with Jimmy Tamborello, who was one half of Postal Service. Also, I found the Postal Service album when I was 18, and that changed my life. So Jay and Kanye have always been massive, massive influences on me. I’m from the East Coast I grew up two hours from New York. What are some of your all-time influences? I’m just all over the place my taste in music has been broad since I was 18. In terms of the new shit, I really liked A$AP Nast’s record, Designer Boi. I’ve been all over the place, but one thing that is consistent in my rotation is Bon Iver. I know it came and went, but I liked the PARTYNEXTDOOR album a lot.
I’ve also been listening to this dude Alex G, and he’s really dope. I’ve been getting into Aphex Twin, randomly. It’s kind of funny that you asked that because I kind of feel like I’ve been void of a lot of influence this year, just the way the year is going. The following interview has been lightly edited. Taking some time out from his recording schedule, the ever-affable OnCue opened up about testing himself with his breakneck recording schedule, hard pretzels, his love of the Postal Service, and what he hopes to do once the world gets back to normal. He just dropped his most recent track, Big Mad, on 11/11. He’s been releasing singles every two weeks or so over the past year.
OnCue, rapper, Eminem co-writer, and indie rock fan, has been on a tear.
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