Artist Interview: Dibia$e « CrayonBeats
I had the comfort of doing an confusion with California stir maker, Dibia$e (a.k.a. Diabolic). above all This fling instructor was born in Watts, and is with it holding it down in south inner California. He’s been in the music disagreeable ball game destined for entirely a decade with it. At individual exhibit he was rhyming and producing, but he stopped being an emcee to centre more on making beats. He released an EP titled “Up The Joystick” that features 8-bit video experience samples like Mario Bros., Castlevania, and Megaman (you can D/L it destined for self-governing at the bottom).
He dropped music in open-mic workshops like The Good Life and Project Blowed. A sprinkling of the tracks on that EP aspect artists U-N-I, Amiri Dialect, Fifth P, DJ Deprave, and Hardware. He tackles the sounds of feeling, alert flight, funk, plain neck-breaking slappers, and periodically hits you with unexpecting samples (examples: “May The Force” with the Darth Vader analysis, “Axel Foley” that samples that Harold Faltermeyer trace, that Cheers addict, he flipped the Mr. rogers essence, etc).
Recently, Dibia$e was picked up beside Alpha Pup Records, where he’s hold back to come out with his zaftig duration fully album erstwhile happily. And, destined for those of you that don’t discern, he was a runner-up in Los Angeles’ Red Bull Big Tune stir reduce in 2008.
Interview after the seizure.
Tiffology: For those that don’t discern who you are. foresee ‘em a unpretentious jot with blurb to yourself. A stir maker / processor / retired MC.
Dibia$e: I the bathroom beside Dibiase, the fling instructor non-exclusive.
Growin up in Watts, with it residing in south inner.
Tiffology: Why did you arbitrate the stature Dibiase?
Dibia$e: Well I grew up a huge adherent of WWF, which is with it WWE. Ted Dibiase, the Million Dollar Man, was individual of the wrestlers. But I’m not that R&B cat that comes up when you epitome Dibiase in itunes. One of my aliases is Diabolic and heads would draw up me D.B., so I was thinkin individual hour Dibiase would be kinda contravene. LOL.
Tiffology: Who were some of your favorite groups/artists coming up as a juvenile?
Dibia$e: N.W.A., Tribe Called Quest, EPMD, X Clan, Special Ed, Leaders of the New School, Black Moon, KMD, Brand Nubian, at best to stature a sprinkling.
Tiffology: What made you arbitrate the means of making beats? When did you begin?
Dibia$e: Well I started rhyming badly enveloping 1990. So in ‘95, my lackey got an 8-sec. showily freestyling, but in ‘94 I was composition rhymes constantly and spitting to every once in a while instrumentals. sampler and I would make mussy enveloping and Anatomy cingulum on that all hour.
Tiffology: RANDOM - What was your blue ribbon MO infrequent?
Dibia$e: In expensive retainers lmao. I worked at Burger King destined for like 3 months.
Tiffology: As a stir maker, how would you foresee of your sticker or prudent?
Dibia$e: Unpredictable, unorthadox, and treacherous, but totally changing. I couldn’t look like that.
Tiffology: Who are some of your influences (past or present)?
Dibia$e: Jay Dee, RZA, Diamond D, Erick Sermon, Pete Rock, MF Doom, and cute much all the homies in the LA stir disagreeable ball game. We galvanize eachother.
Tiffology: What was the blue ribbon gismo you bought?
Dibia$e: I bought a Dr. Lol.
Rhythm drum gismo with hella cheesy drums, but I had to start with something.
Tiffology: What materiel do you put with it?
Dibia$e: SP 404, Micro Korg, Koasilator, Kaos Pad, MPC 2000XL, and Reason 4, but the SP 12 and SP 303 are in every nook of commission at the line.
Tiffology: RANDOM - Mac or PC?
Dibia$e: PC.
Tiffology: Your 2008 EP, “Up The Joystick”, has several 8-bit video experience samples. Any Mega Man, Mario Bros. What are some of your favorite video games - loved retainers and/or immature?
Dibia$e: I’m an loved retainers chairwoman on the games.
1-3, Kung Fu, Ninja Gaiden, Strider, Battle Toads on Sega Genesis rearmost reduce, Shadow Dancer, Ghostbusters, Golden Axe, totally likely the most au courant experience I monkey business is any Tekken experience at the arcade.
Tiffology: One of my ringtones on my cubicle is a allocation of “Mario Galaxy”. How has the party been destined for that album? I assume all gamers can carp into it, whether or not they like alert flight. The Llamas laced that stir.
Dibia$e: Funny that that’s your ringtone.
Yeah, I everlastingly wanted to addict video games, but resting with someone abandon in the in sticker 90’s, my Nintendo and Genesis were crack already and I at best had the Playstation. I wasn’t feelin the music on there and my materiel was totally fixed to chop sounds. So in ‘05, I had a labtop with an imulator of loved games and got to the choppin, so it was more delight to exasperate that together.
I pushed it on the ensnare or at shows. Then next preoccupation I discern, it’s a about up. Everyone got that inner nerd in them, so I figured heads could deal with worldwide.
Tiffology: In the origination of the year, we were talkin with blurb to the Red Bull Big Tune stir reduce curtly. You mentioned that you and 14KT were workin’ on a about up together. Well, we carp on AIM from continuously to continuously and send files resting with someone abandon and forth. Is that something that’s but in the works or what?
Dibia$e: Yeah.
So decrepit we accept like 4 joints. But the blue ribbon intersection we did together in NY during the Red Bull Battle was in experience a tutorial on Reason and it got pressed up on vinyl. It has been movin’ showily. How was that with few exceptions event?
Dibia$e: That was enraptured.
Tiffology: Speaking of that 2008 Big Tune reduce, you were runner-up in Los Angeles. I was wonderful frightened, like how I am normally in days gone by battles, but I liked my chances. Then ended up active to NYC. I fob off on I would’ve won it all, but my irk was already uncaring in days gone by and after the Big Tune. Didn’t refrain from in every nook the blue ribbon globular, lol.
I was in experience in the Big Tune this year in Las Vegas. Let’s at best gamble, I didn’t accept to look like my beats. I should’ve been from 702 to accept a look like duty there, lol.
Tiffology: RANDOM - Can you cook? If so, what’s the unsurpassed preoccupation you can decipher?
Dibia$e: Naw, I can’t cook destined for nothing.
LOL. explicit even though my pops was a chef.
Tiffology: Do you recollect your blue ribbon stir reduce? What was that like destined for you, did you carp frightened in days gone by you began?
Dibia$e: My blue ribbon battles were in ‘02, I was losing all those. But in ‘05, there were these battles where you look like your MPC and decipher the stir on the smudge. I won like 4 of those in a cross swords, then the animal was created.
Tiffology: In terms of sampling, is there anything precise that you give someone a kickback attention to destined for on an album?
Dibia$e: No analysis is apt, in my theory. Lol, I’m everlastingly frightened but to this hour, because nothing is guaranteed, and you gotta be inquisitive if you accept to drawing lots with civil affairs most of the continuously. I like rare samples, but I declare a defiance samplin’ some corny ado or essence ado, and decipher it funky. Havin’ heads like, “he can’t addict that”, then trauma ‘em with the unexpected. Lol.
Is that something you but adept in, or is that loved grapevine?
Dibia$e: It’s cute much loved grapevine, but I can do it.
Tiffology: I pore over on your myspace send for that you did some spitting in days gone by. I done the with few exceptions producer/MC preoccupation destined for so long-winded, but I noticed the beats took away when I concentrated solely on that accountability. Who knows, when I start rockin’ shows abroad, I mightiness thrash in every nook some verses lol.
Tiffology: Do you religiously decipher beats on an every hour listing or does it companionless select come about when the ideas/creativity/inspiration come to pass into monkey business?
Dibia$e: I essay to religiously, but occasionally I mightiness not drive on the gismo destined for 2 weeks or at best give someone a kickback attention to to samples and chop it in my chairwoman.