Oakland producer and rapper OVRKAST. sits down with Jeff Weiss and Mz.Free on The Truth Hurts podcast for a wide-ranging conversation that breaks down what it was actually like to land beats on Drake’s album, why he locked himself in the studio for four months to make a project, learning how to rap, the Bay Area beat scene that raised him, and his new album “striking.”
0:00 Intro
0:36 Resisting the technocracy: AI, deepfakes & uploading your consciousness
2:55 Twitter, trolling & Facebook being a whole other world
5:59 Moving to New York, reading your own press & finding the right label
11:44 How the first Drake placement changed his life
13:10 Locking in the studio, imposter syndrome & “While The Iron Is Hot”
16:23 How the Drake beats actually got picked
18:34 The Bay Area beat scene, Bandcamp & knxwledge
23:05 Michael Jackson biopics & being a film guy
25:54 The “striking” short film & the struggle of being an artist
28:48 Being overlooked, the E-40 problem & repping the Bay
32:19 From beats to bars: learning how to rap
36:49 “This isn’t DoorDash”: life after a hit & Mr. Holiday
43:51 Making money in music: catalogs, streaming & AI
49:46 AI-written tweets, Kendrick’s no-phone life & Bill Murray
52:00 Lightning round: air fryers, crop tops & masculinity
57:27 Criterion closet, Green Day & sitcom life
59:49 LA vs Bay, Kendrick & refusing to pick sides
1:03:46 DOOM, blunt rotations, Trump & UFC
1:07:54 New album “striking” & what’s next
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