Diplo

It's like not even on Spotify, but that's like the record.

My first production ever is called Back End on Victor Bond.

So I just met him and traded beats.

And that was what I was doing in Philly.

Just like making like really shitty beats on like a shitty sampler called a, I think it was called like a Akai S20.

Didn't even have, I couldn't even afford an MPC.

Like I had like an SP-1200, but that was so shitty and it didn't work.

I didn't even have floppy disks for it.

So just like make little sample loops and then set them off, record mixtapes with Cool Edit Pro or Acid.

I was a big mixtape guy.

I was a DJ guy.

And then my little mashups I was making got big.

And then I ended up doing this record called Fabric Live for this London club called Fabric, a big nightclub.

And that became kind of popular because it was a mashup of hip hop,

Southern rap, which wasn't big anywhere but the South, but I was really into like David Banner and like Three 6 Mafia.

And then I had this big party in London and then I met M.I.A.

through that party and somehow I convinced her label, XL, that I was actually a producer.

And they sent her to Philadelphia to work with me and I had no idea what we were doing.

She spent like four days.

We didn't make one good song.