While the group no longer tours, the artist reminds audiences that the brand is still very much in tact — recently returning from Seattle for a Zumiez event where he celebrated with the Odd Future family. Now at 29 years old, he continues to push the envelope. Read below! What does Los Angeles mean to you? A great place to grow. South Central. I was actually born in Oceanside. My parents moved around a lot. So, my dad was here, but I was with my mom traveling. She was in the Marines. Left and came back a couple times.
It was different. I actually used to live in Japan. So coming here — transitioning from high school — that was a bigger culture shock to me than anything. It all depends on you. Then, I took a production class and it just snowballed from there.
Not at much as I am now, but I just wanted to learn everything and get into it. We had the class at Crenshaw , which was rare. So, I just wanted to take advantage. I was in there with Left Brain and he was real fire. This was 11th or 12th grade, I was 17 or I graduated with him. How did you first cross paths with Tyler, The Creator? I had always heard about him. I was an Odd Future fan in high school. But, I was chopping and screwing music.
Pretty crazy. That was my first encounter with Tyler. My first time meeting him, I was doing my first show at the Knitting Factory in He was at the Supreme store on La Brea, they were having this warehouse sale. He was outside. He was out there doing that with Jasper because he could walk into Supreme at any time, even around then. Not so much, I just knew the message behind it. What he intended to do with it: to bring creativity to the forefront. Even then, it was the microwave artists.
People were doing things just because they were cool. So, he wanted originality to be the main thing, and I understood that completely. So, getting my music to him was through the chopped and screwed, and we both saw eye to eye. You have to have the right mind-state and understanding of the direction for what you want to do in the culture. Anybody regular growing up together, you grow alongside each other, but you have your different paths.
Our understandings of that is what keeps us friends and not creating animosity toward each other. Our biggest tour, nothing really came together after that. But, the carnival Camp Flog Gnaw is one way for us to see each other every year.
We had Dash Radio, that was a good way to keep things going. Things grow, things change. Definitely realizing the different methods of transportation everybody has to go through. Being on the tour bus for however long, seeing the tour bus go on a boat. Shit like that is weird. But of course festivals, performing, just to experience different countries is pretty great. Zumiez and Live Nation have taken the brand into their hands.
Zumiez is really a great company because they involve the staff they employ and the staff of the brand. They have a cohesiveness, they make the environment to where we can integrate with each other. Mad appreciative of it, of course. But, it gives me a chance to expand on my set and what I can do. The possibilities, that sort of thing. Tom Pollock Rower. Robert Sowell Football Player. Grant Riller Celebrity.
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