My taste for rappers is very high. I’ve only worked with, like, Pac and Jay-Z and Scarface. Mike Dean Read Quote
I’ve always been fascinated with sound, since I was a little kid when my mother Dorothy Dean took me to my first piano lesson. Later on, my guitar, bass guitar, and synthesizer were my secret weapons. Mike Dean Read Quote
If I hear music that has a hole in it and has a space for me to fit in, I go for that stuff. Mike Dean Read Quote
No disrespect to people that don’t use music theory or don’t know it. It does help to be able to figure out what key a song is in, even though with your scales you can figure it out so you can set your Auto-Tune right. So many songs with Auto-Tune are off or have the wrong note playing on the 808. And they pass it off as being hood. Mike Dean Read Quote
It’s great to watch people come up and help mold their careers. I really took it literal when Kanye said, ‘Listen to the kids, bruh.’ That really means something. Mike Dean Read Quote