Miz Maf Interview w/ Blacktruth.net

miz maf pic 2What was your beat selection process?

Man, I just picked every beat that allowed me to tell my story in a raw form. My voice itself is an instrument, a sound. I picked beats where once my voice hit it, it created another sound to the beat; whereas it was unique to the array of melody or sound and tempo. And not just the same beats but different types of sounds to show I can flow on any wavelength. My story is told through my voice and in life, I had rainy days, sunny days, cloudy storms, etc. I got some high tempo, low tempo, heavy bass, crazy futuristic beats, and more. Once I hear a beat that matches my story’s intensity, it’s wedlock!


How was the album recorded? How long did it take? Was it natural or more of a learning process?

I recorded this album still running around in the streets heavy. I leave the kitchen, hit the booth; come back from O.T., hit the booth, get done in the streets, hit the booth! I wasn’t timing it, I was just recording a catalog to pick and choose from. It all flowed naturally, with me living everything I record, it was as natural as a ducking taking to the water. From my moods to voice tone, to content to energy all stemming from being in the streets, still live in my element. That was my therapy in a way and I’m laying it hot off the press. Still, in all, everything is a learning process. whether I was laying tracks down conventionally or unorthodox; dubs to no adlibs; different tones to pitches. You learn to mesh it all.

What is your next planned project?

My next planned project is Quick Fix 2. It’s another installment to my Quick Fix mixtape series. I just go bananas on all of the latest beats on the radio, people’s albums, anything. If the beat was hot and caught a wave I put my Miz Maf Signature on it and spazz on ‘em. It’s more of like instead of the “remix” to the beats it’s the “Quick Fixes”. Go download my first Quick Fix! I’m still getting love in the streets from that one and that was dropped in like 2010. Classic beats get it too! I’m not gonna give away the beats I chose because niggas bite. I want this to be a treat, an unexpected comet to earth. Stay tuned!

What’s the number one dead rapper you wish was still alive and why?

That’s a good question. I can’t really pick just one because I can give valid reasons why I wish every one of them was still alive but to just pick one I would have to say The Notorious B.I.G. because he only made one album and people was calling him the best to do it! You have to think, he was dead before the world even heard Life After Death. It didn’t even drop yet so all his critical acclaim came from one album, Ready To Die. His legacy ain’t even really take off. And just to see how would things have played out in the scene. Would Jay-Z be who he is today if B.I.G. was still alive? B.I.G. had lots of people in his shadows! Jay-Z even said himself on ” Can’t Be Life”, “Everybody doing them, I’m still stressing on the block…” Not taking nothing from him but we all know B.I.G. was the east coast! Only other nigga real catching that light was my favorite rapper Tupac. But I picked B.I.G. because of how the dynamics would have changed and been different had he still been alive. Shit, The Lox might have went further like I thought they should’ve and B.I.G. was spitting that shit for real. Time would have only told how crazier it would’ve gotten.

 

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