When I was in the studio with Babyface I used to, and I still do, forget melodies often. But the way that he approaches a song and melody. There's so much genius that I've been able to be around in the studios that it's hard to list. Reyez: The whole idea of mentorship is something I wish more people understood the value of because there are mentors I have in the industry I have learned so much from, like Calvin Harris for example. Maybe one of those seeds, one of those ripples could lead to the experience that I'm having right now.īaltin: Are there people you have learned a lot from in the industry?
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So the fact that the people in charge of the Remix Project say admissions and submissions have gone up significantly since I started talking about it more, that makes me feel really proud. Just someone telling me that this opportunity was available.
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And eventually we started talking more and he told me about the Remix Project. I found him and I messaged him a link to my music video. I used to spam my s**t on Facebook and I spammed someone who ended up becoming my manager randomly on Facebook.
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That's beautiful cause I heard about it through a fluke. Reyez: Hearing from a lot of kids they found out about the program or joined the program because they heard me talk about it in interviews. It's one of those things that once you graduate you're Remix fam for life.īaltin: What have been your proudest moments as a mentor? One of their founders is actually a really good friend of mine now, has helped me a lot still with life advice as a friend. But because they brought someone who was human, someone who could bleed like me, talk like me, walk like me, and talked about not just their successes, but their failures and what it took, I feel like that just kind of accelerated me into getting into this mindset of, "If you could do it, I could do it." It made it human, it made it more of a possibility. I couldn't bridge it because it was so far removed and institutions and school was telling me I need to live my life a different way. And watching the Grammy Awards and watching all this s**t on a screen. "You gotta go to school, gotta get a diploma, you gotta make sure you have a plan B." So what the Remix Project did for me by putting mentors in the room that had seen success, they were able to bridge that gap cause as a kid it was me watching music videos. A lot of musicians, a lot of artists, a lot of painters get told, get a plan B. But there's this disconnect when you're creative and your goals for the future are being told from an outside perspective that they have to be something more realistic because institutions aren't set up for creative's.
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My whole life I always knew that music was home. And people that are graduates that have seen success come back and they speak as mentors.
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Reyez: I joined this program in Toronto called the Remix Project and it's free school for at-risk youth and kids from 16 to 24. I can just hop around from car roof to car roof and that would be dope.īaltin: Talk about how your background in Toronto shaped you musically. But maybe I can do car-hopping and we can still stay the six feet distance. There won't be much stage diving, which sucks. I'm not mad at a drive-in idea, that's kind of cool. I feel like we're all in a state of limbo right now and figuring out what works and what doesn't. Reyez: Kid Cudi, ooh, or Frank Ocean, damn.īaltin: Would you do drive-in shows or are there new ways to perform you are looking at?