Ira Antelis Interview

By: Jarrod Horton

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Black Truth News: Please introduce yourself and let the people know what you are about.

Ira Antelis: My name is Ira Antelis; I’m a music producer and composer in Chicago. Got a bunch of music ventures and Spike has been working on a project that I have been working on for about 8 months, and the project is called ‘Gone but not Duality.’ The reason it is called duality is that we tend to look at things in life in one way, and when we meet people we never really open our eyes to the possibilities of what else could exist. So I sort of did this Jazz project with a really good friend of mine and I realized that it is pretty complicated to sell Jazz projects. But one of my other producers, his name is Dr. Dexter, we were in the studio talking and we said why we don’t flip the project. So we had these Jazz albums that people listen to one way, but then we sampled it and turned it into this Art Hip Hop. We did these instrumental rocks. I have a lot of friends in the industry; I used to have a show called Raw TV with Shorty Capone. Using those connections and having the Hip Hop instrumental tracks, we then needed to find some artists to rap on them. One of those artists was a guy named Z-Verse from here in Chicago. He did a song called ‘Never Gone.’

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