JGivens. (2018). JGivens – Help Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re My Only Hope. Retrieved from Genius: https://genius.com/Jgivens-help-me-obi-wan-kenobi-youre-my-only-hope-lyrics

Neutron, R. (2017, September 27). HOME RECKONING W/ JGIVENS. Retrieved from Typical Mag: http://www.typicalmag.co/content/2017/9/27/home-reckoning-w-jgivens

 

 

 

JGivens main influences as stated in an interview with (Neutron, 2017) states “these are the rappers I look up”:

 

·      Will Smith

·      Common

·      Ice Cube

J continues by saying “Any rapper that made it to the silver screen I wanna go that route”.

 

J when asked “so acting” (Neutron, 2017) goes onto say “Yea. I'm from Los Angeles. The pinnacle of LA is Mulholland Drive. So you start out in your house in LA and got your thing that you do, mine started out as music. Everyone's pinnacle is that silver screen. That's where the impact comes from and that's where the money's at. Warren Beatty can mess up Moonlight and it be okay”.

Neutron, R. (2017, September 27). HOME RECKONING W/ JGIVENS. Retrieved from Typical Mag: http://www.typicalmag.co/content/2017/9/27/home-reckoning-w-jgivens

The Black Keys I came across and was fortunate enough to see live when they headlined Pyramid Rock festival.
 This was my first time hearing them and they changed my appreciation for music enourmously.
 They where my door way into blues music and pushed me on to guys like Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy waters to name a couple.
 
 

In an interview with Ed Drozdowski, Dan Auerbach (the lead singer/guitarist) of The Black keys explains throughout the interview quite a few of his influences, which include:

 

·      Junior Kimbrough

·      R.L. Burside

·      Carter Stanly (Of The Stanley Brothers)

 

When asked “where did it all begin” Dan Auerbach explains “I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that’s what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played.

Ed then goes on to state, 

Dan then goes onto explain, “Definitely. That’s something I got from Junior Kimbrough. Junior changed everything for me. When I heard his album All Night Long, I dropped out of college and started playing seriously. His shit is weird North Mississippi dance music. He came up with his own style, influenced by local folks. He had the bravery to try something different”.

Drozdowski, e. (2012, March 14). Interview: Guitarist Dan Auerbach Discusses Gear, Influences and the Latest Black Keys Album, 'El Camino'. Retrieved from Guitar World: https://www.guitarworld.com/gw-archive/interview-guitarist-dan-auerbach-discusses-gear-influences-and-latest-black-keys-album-el-camino 

Kaytranada is an inspiration for me for the music he produces.
 His production is incredible and the way he has blended two genres of music I am very passionate about, Hip Hop and Dance to create his own unique sound that is jus incredible to listen to. 
 Kay is the main reason I got interested in producing music for these reasons.

 
 In an interview with Anupa Mistry for the Red Bull Music Academy Kay states his influences as being:

·      The Neptunes

·      Karriem Riggins

·      J Dilla

 

 

 

In the same interview Anupa goes on to ask “When did you first get into Dilla?”

Kaytranada respond’s by saying “I got into Dilla because of A Tribe Called Quest and I discovered, right after he passed away of course, but I was listening to his productions without it was his beats. “Find A Way” is my favorite track from Tribe and I didn’t know he produced it at the time and I was like, “oh.” In 2006 I remember everybody saying like J Dilla passed away and I’m like “who is J Dilla?” I feel so stupid to say that but I was like, “Who is J Dilla?” I just did my research and then found that he produced The Pharcyde and Tribe and you know.”

 

Anupa goes on to state “I think the interesting thing about Dilla too is that he was able to do all that heavy find of music, nerd stuff but then also do a song like “Vivrant Thing”.
 
 

Kay later describes how he is influenced by J Dill, “Yeah, club bangers, he would do whatever he wanted to. One of his latest tapes before he passed away in 2005 called 64 Beats, whatever, its only club bangers, you know? Probably made for Busta Rhymes and all those types of artists and it bangs so much. It’s so crazy, its just like club bangers but he’s slipping samples as well. That kind of influenced me and it still influences me to this day to just flip samples. But make it hot at the same time, not only traditional boom bap joints, you know?”

 

Mistry, A. (2015, October 5). Red Bull Music Academy. Retrieved from Redbullmusicacademy.com: http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/kaytranada-lecture