Oct 18, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min · 12 segments
We sat down with the super dope producer Domino of Hieroglyphics and got a chance to really nerd out about all a lot of producer-related topics. We also talked about the making of the recent Hiero…
And let's set it off, man.
Big picture question.
I got a few big picture questions here.
You being one of the, in my mind, one of the best producers around, I want to get your opinion on some stuff as far as some things going on in the culture.
So first things first, in your opinion, where is hip-hop production right now? Like, how do you look at it as someone who's been in the game for over 30 plus years? You know, do you see it? Do you see it? I hear different things.
I hear people say, oh, it's improved.
It's better.
Oh, I hear it's trash.
There's no originality.
Where do you see it as someone who, you know, has been around for a minute?
I don't know.
I think it's just more diversity.
I don't even know if like, you know, I think a lot of it is based on accessibility.
So it's really easy for anyone to get up there and make a song, you know, not just producing, but even at vocals.
And so I think there's good out there on the production side, but I just think it's just a little harder to find it as you weed through you know, especially when you're on social media, it's just so easy for anyone to go and put up a song and post something and and get in the algorithm.
And, you know, like.
I feel like there's some people that are that are pushing the envelope, but I also feel like there's a resurgence in kind of.
The style that we kind of were born from, you know what I'm saying, and I think a lot of that is a lot of the younger a lot of younger hip hop fans are, you know, kind of going down that rabbit hole because they have, you know, a whole library in their phone, you know, and they're finding out about the 93 Till
Affinity
and, you know, Troy and rub a lot of pause and all this thing.
And I think because of the process where it's just there's not there's there's not much gatekeeping for better or for worse, is that people, you know, I feel like are finding out that, of course, everyone's going to think their era is the best and all that.
And I might get into that, but I feel like we're in this.
It's because of how fast music's become a lot more like quick.
It's like comes and it goes so quick because that's the way that social media works.
I feel that people kind of harking back to a time where there was more care and a little bit more, you know, I don't know, gatekeeping isn't the word, but I guess curating, you know what I'm saying? It was going on in that era that anyone just couldn't do it, so people are tend to gravitate into that a bit, just like I was in the early, in the 90s when I was listening to hella 70s records, you know, and late 60s stuff.
And let's set it off, man.
Big picture question.
I got a few big picture questions here.
You being one of the, in my mind, one of the best producers around, I want to get your opinion on some stuff as far as some things going on in the culture.
So first things first, in your opinion, where is hip-hop production right now? Like, how do you look at it as someone who's been in the game for over 30 plus years? You know, do you see it? Do you see it? I hear different things.
I hear people say, oh, it's improved.
It's better.
Oh, I hear it's trash.
There's no originality.
Where do you see it as someone who, you know, has been around for a minute?
I don't know.
I think it's just more diversity.
I don't even know if like, you know, I think a lot of it is based on accessibility.
So it's really easy for anyone to get up there and make a song, you know, not just producing, but even at vocals.
And so I think there's good out there on the production side, but I just think it's just a little harder to find it as you weed through you know, especially when you're on social media, it's just so easy for anyone to go and put up a song and post something and and get in the algorithm.
And, you know, like.
I feel like there's some people that are that are pushing the envelope, but I also feel like there's a resurgence in kind of.
The style that we kind of were born from, you know what I'm saying, and I think a lot of that is a lot of the younger a lot of younger hip hop fans are, you know, kind of going down that rabbit hole because they have, you know, a whole library in their phone, you know, and they're finding out about the 93 Till
Affinity
and, you know, Troy and rub a lot of pause and all this thing.
And I think because of the process where it's just there's not there's there's not much gatekeeping for better or for worse, is that people, you know, I feel like are finding out that, of course, everyone's going to think their era is the best and all that.
And I might get into that, but I feel like we're in this.
It's because of how fast music's become a lot more like quick.
It's like comes and it goes so quick because that's the way that social media works.
I feel that people kind of harking back to a time where there was more care and a little bit more, you know, I don't know, gatekeeping isn't the word, but I guess curating, you know what I'm saying? It was going on in that era that anyone just couldn't do it, so people are tend to gravitate into that a bit, just like I was in the early, in the 90s when I was listening to hella 70s records, you know, and late 60s stuff.
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