Ensoniq ASR-10

And he had, and he had all his equipment lined up.

Like, here's the SP, here's the ASR-10, and all the disks were laid out.

Right.

And he was like, "What, what machine you want?"

And the price was really good.

So I already have, for the record, an Ensoniq ASR-10.

And I did have an ASR-X, which I did part with, which was sort of the non-keyboard kind of MPC style one.

So these are samplers

And I was in my man Montez's Jeep and he's playing Wordplay, and I'm like, "Yo, why the drums like that? Like, the drums sound off.

Like, they're not programmed right." And I just went right in the house, turned on the ASR 10 and was trying to emulate what Dilla was doing, you know what I mean? So it's kinda like, so whenever I hear Larry Graham's name and I hear those stories of all these bass players being like, "Yo, we didn't know what the, what that was or what he was doing," it kinda brings me as a producer back to when it was like Dilla or Timbaland where it's like, "Yo, what are they doing?" Like, you know, things like that.

So definitely shout out to Larry Graham, Grand Central Station.

Uh, incredible joint.

For sure.

But I love the fact that my mom...

Right, with the beats, but she saw that that was my love, so it was like she's the one who brought me to ASR 10, you know, when, you know, that was a pipe dream.

So she's always invested in me.

Yeah.

I had ASR10.

And I reached this moment where I had to like, look at myself seriously and say, "I'm never gonna be Dr. Dre."

Mm.