Stop Working So Hard

Last weekend, I was in the recording studio with a fellow producer. It was his studio, and we were working on some ideas for a rapper/singer.

Any time you’re working with another producer or songwriter, you have to be open-minded. Their ideas are just as valuable as yours. Your best hope is that, collaboratively, you can bring something to the table.

As to what I was bringing— it was samples. Namely, a library I’ve been collecting for more than 25 years. They were organized on a playlist, which sounds simple enough, but on each song were specific parts that I felt the…