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88-Keys

@eightyocho

Grammy Award ™ Winning Music Producer... & I See Another One In My Very Near Future.

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Nah. Finish your plate first Maybe I’ll do (another) sophomore album if I see my numbers go up (Not talking about “streaming” either) 😒 iTunes babyyy

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Nah but it would have to hit 100K sold for me to be motivated to release any other project of quality By the way… I retired October ‘24 Back to “fun first… any/everything else a distant second”

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Shout out to my brother Dr. Anthony K. Njapa who inadvertently put me onto house music & jazz fusion back in the mid-80s which carried through the very early 90s Incognito - Always There ft. Jocelyn Brown youtu.be/X6JM8iagb8o?si… via YouTube

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Today, nothing but ECM Record cataloging, All New X-Factor reading & having fun making beats… Might go see Weapons (again) later 🍿 Oh & a little bit of cleaning 😓

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Will be taking my first deep dive into experimenting on my Akai S3200 I have a working theory which I’d like to finally figure out / put to the test If it works… oh boy!

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Yeah, I was trip’n when it came on Also happy the artist’s wife most likely got a nice check for that placement She’s a nice & gracious woman… worked with me on clearing two of her deceased husband’s samples Then saw a surprise cameo by The Chosen One in a movie the next day

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Stayed up until 4 o’clock this morning working out my theory on sampling with the #AkaiS3200 …it worked! But still have some tweaks to make

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Stayed up late last night & sampled a song I thought was a ¼ “decent” at best Didn’t like what I was making so left it alone & went to bed Didn’t save to disk but also didn’t cut power Out of bed now & playing the idea back… it ain’t half bad to me now It ain’t 🔥 but has

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I’ve stopped saying the N-word years ago Last time I recall was using it was in an 8 bar rap verse I did back in 2019 & it was primarily to follow a flow pattern from another artist Only used it that one time & hadn’t for years prior to that occasion Yeah, so haven’t