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Huge thanks to DK All Day for
taking time out to answer the questions fans wanted to know! (Interview
was done by phone on January 12th 2004)
Questions Asked By :
Nima
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ENTIRE INTERVIEW IN AUDIO:
HERE
dubcnn.com: For all of those who don't know you yet,
introduce yourself and let us know where you from.
Man, I'm DK All Day, I'm originally from Ingelwood, and I've been
all around Cali and I'm representin' just California, period.
dubcnn.com: You're a producer, how did you get started?
Oh man, when I was very young man, I was always excited about the
whole turntable DJ'ing thing, so I started actually DJ'ing first. I
was a DJ first, and after DJ'ing, I met somebody named Anthony
Collin, who is a DJ from New York and he was making some beats. So
he taught me how to make beats man. That's how I really started way
back in like '88, that's when I got my first drum machine, which was
a SP 12. And I always wanted to do it from then on.
dubcnn.com: Who were your main influences coming up?
Marley Marl, DJ Premier, Dr. Dre, and as I got older with time,
Timbo.
dubcnn.com: Which projects have we heard you on until now?
I appeared... My first placement was on a guy named Aaron Sky on Red
End Records.
dubcnn.com: Have you been on anything else other than that?
Oh yeah, many records! I've done Lil Zane, I produced for him, I
produced for Kurupt, I produced for Guerilla Black, Yukmouth, Baby
S, Athena Cage, uhm, I did a pop group called EYC...
dubcnn.com: Who was your favorite artist to work with up
until now?
Ludacris.
dubcnn.com: You hooked up with Ludacris for the song Child Of
The Night. How did that get hooked up?
Well that was all basically on my homeboy Poon Daddy, give it up to
Poon Daddy. Poon Daddy made that whole thing happen for me, it's a
old school homie, and I linked up with him in Atlanta before
Ludacris was Ludacris. They had a show together it was Poon Daddy &
Cris Lova Lova, and I used to do radio drops over there. Poon put
that together, Poon Daddy.
dubcnn.com: It is rumoured to be the 2nd single, is that
true?
Nah, actually, the 2nd single is the song produced by Timbaland,
they're out here shooting the video probably this weekend.
dubcnn.com: You're from Ingelwood, how do you feel about the
mainstream presence of the West?
I feel like, there isn't really a presence, but I do think that
there is alot of cats out there on the rise and we're about to bring
this whole West Coast thing back, you know? But I just think that
there is no presence right now unless you're coming off of Dr. Dre.
But there are alot of other artists out there ready to come, it's
just that L.A. has to accept it.
dubcnn.com: So what do you think it'll take for the West to
get together and rise again?
Man, I think that we all need to get together and everybody let go
off their ego's and just get together and form as a unit. And just
all get together and we can bring it back. For example it's too many
chiefs and not enough indians.
dubcnn.com: I feel you. Everybody's beefin' with each other,
nobody's supportin' each other.
Right! Exactly! And until that happens, that's what it's gonna take.
Radio, DJ's all get together to support this movement that we have
going.
dubcnn.com: Are your beats typical West, or how would you
describe them?
Man I can go to any level. I can go East Coast, West Coast,
whatever. I'm Hip Hop. I'm HipHop. Back in the day, wether you
listened to Marley Marl or King Tee, it wasn't about that. It's
about being able to go to any sound. I can get down on any sound!
dubcnn.com: What equipment do you use?
I use a MPC 3000, and a program called Reasons. Along with a SE 1,
you now.
dubcnn.com: Do you play any instruments?
Yeah, I play the keyboards.
dubcnn.com: And did you ever try to rap?
No, but you know what? I'm writing verses as of right now. So I'ma
eventually come out with some records myself! DK All Day the
producer and artist. *laughs*
dubcnn.com: Which artists would you like to collaborate with?
Man, I wanna collaborate with Jay-Z, Xzibit, Jadakiss, Missy Elliot,
who else... Mos Def! A Tribe Called Quest!
dubcnn.com: You're also getting ready to release a mixtape,
can you tell us what it's called?
Yeah! Basically the mixtape it's gonna be showcasing alot of the
newer MC's from around L.A., from L.A. to San Bernardino to Orange
County. But the main purpose of the mixtape is to showcase the
things that I have worked on in the past and the future.
dubcnn.com: What's it called?
It's gonna be the "The All Day Mixtape".
dubcnn.com: Who's gonna be featured on there?
Artists like Kurupt, Bad Azz, Lil Zane, Yukmouth, Guerilla Black,
Athena Cage, E-40, you know, all the people I've worked with.
dubcnn.com: All produced by you?
Yes!
dubcnn.com: So what else can people expect from you 2005?
Oh man, what's gonna happen man, I'm really workin' on an artist
named Young Case, and I'm also from a family called The Himalayaz.
dubcnn.com: I was in touch with one of those dudes a few
years ago...
Well all the stuff that you heard with them, I produced on. I
produced all the Himalayaz stuff, that's like my family. Mr. Mash
and Himalayaz are the Roots of my beginning. And we have a artist
out that camp that I'm really focusing on, and I think that he has
the possibility to bring the West Coast back, his name is Young
Case.
dubcnn.com: So you're gonna be working with Young Case..
And I'm also gonna be working on the next Ludacris album! I'll be
working with Big Reg, and I also got some things in the works where
I'll be working with Twista. But that's not for sure yet, but we
definitely workin' on it. The money is there for him to do it.
Twista, and I'm just trying to see man, I don't wanna put all my
eggs in one basket man, who knows what's gonna happen. It's just
alot of blessings going on right now. And I'm willing to accept any
and every one of them. *laughs*
dubcnn.com: Well that's about it for the questions, is there
anything else that you would like to let everybody out there know:
I wanna send out a couple shoutouts, is that cool?
dubcnn.com: Yeah sure, go ahead!
Shoutout to God, and I wanna give a shoutout to my boy Mash first
for him hooking this up for me. And I wanna say wassup to Bambino,
to my boy Amil G, Kickback, Young Case, my boy Mark Brown & TK from
Ball'r Records. Those are my cats. I wanna give it up to my boy MJ
at Platinum Music Group, and I-15, and my cousin Mio out here, he's
a sick engineer. And this is the last one, my girl Sabrine.
dubcnn.com: Aight fo sho, I appreciate you taking the time to
answer the questions!
Ay man, thank you, thank ya'll! Thank you for interviewing me, and
just a shoutout to you, dogg, for real! For lookin' out for me man,
I really really really appreciate this.
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