WLPWR: “I like to go in places that I’m not expected to be in, and I like to thrive in them”
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- Jan 26
- 1 min read
Iconic producer WLPWR talks the psychological skills of a music producer, Black artists in country music, and the death and the rebirth of hip hop
By Katharina Moser
It is Friday night in Music City, Tennessee, the dusk is falling on Nashville´s East Iris Studios, ice cubes are clacking in Whiskey glasses held in tattooed-up fingers, bejeweled with silver skull rings that reflect the studio lights in the eery dark of a front porch summer night. A distinct sequence of sound is dancing in the air, hums through the streets and rustles through the leaves of the blooming magnolia trees – a sound that makes your ears perk up and your feet tap, and it leads you straight into East Iris Studios, more precisely, in one particular room, where the doors are sealed and the mixing desk is glooming ominously in the half-dark. In its midst, there sits the origin of sound, casually testing out beats and drums, a man who can pride himself on being one of the most impactful, versatile and stylistically distinct hip hop producers of our time: WLPWR, founder of SupaHotBeats and BNDWTH, an industry icon who has worked with no other than household names like Eminem, Wiz Khalifa, or Killer Mike. Read more in link below.
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