Talent: Producer, Writer
Company: Face The Music/Blackbaby, Inc.
Contact: www.myspace.com/wyldcardmusic

How did you get started into doing production?

My big brother, Insane.  I come from Memphis, Tennessee it’s the home of producers. I saw a lot of other cats doing it. A lot of producers who were already putting their foot down. I saw a lot of cats doing their thing and I was inspired by that.

Being that you come from a family with a heavy musical background, do you think that it is something that came natural to you?

It was something that was natural. I knew even when I was in my mother's stomach. My mother was a big fan of Curtis Mayfield and she was in the Opera. Even though she was in the Opera, she had that class in her. She still was jamming Curtis Mayfield and grooving to that other stuff. So I grew up on that but then my Pop was in the Orchestra.  He was in the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, first chair Clarinet, so he had me playing the recorder at like 3. I was able to play the clarinet and reading classical music at 5 or 6 years old. I just kept it up and played clarinet through Jr. High School and High School but I still wanted to have an impact in the streets have an impact on the Urban tip and still be able to jam out in clubs and what not so I mixed them.

For people that have never heard any of your tracks, how would you describe your sound?

Just hard, street. It’s a reason for every beat that I make. Its not that I’m out here making beats.  I just do what I feel and what I feel I play on the keyboard, play on the clarinet, or however the idea is created. I just put it down and record. I don’t put a name on what I do, I just do what I do whether its hard whether its street, whether, Urban, Pop, Classical, whatever its going to be a jam. Whatever emotion you in for the time its just going to make you jam for that emotion.

When creating your records, do you create them with a person in mind?

Sometimes you make a concept for Jezzy, sometimes you just make a concept period and who ever gets it gets it.  It’s all about how you attack it. Sometimes people call me into the studio and I’m cooking up a beat from scratch or cooking up something for Jeezy. 

With you coming out of Memphis and now living in Atlanta right now, would you say that you have more of a Memphis sound or an Atlanta sound?

My sound is always going to be a Memphis sound! I might make Atlanta music here, Memphis Music here, Detroit music, Caribbean music, African music, it’s no limit.  People know when they hear me they say that’s Drummer, he’s from Memphis. I rep Memphis in everything I do.  I’m a part of Atlanta because that’s where most of my clientele is but that’s not my sound.

Give me one word for each of these artist records that you have worked on.

Jezzy?

Classic

Pastor Troy?

A blessing, just because how it came about. Troy is somebody I grew up on and just wanting to be apart of.  I just wanted to make beat music for him and he heard about me and dropped about three of my tracks before I even met him. So by the time I met him that was the first thing I told him, it’s a blessing

Lil Scrappy?

Gangsta

Gotti?

Back to the Basics… He Just Real!

Rick Ross?

We did one song called “Where You At”. I don’t have a word for Rick Ross because I was suppose to be on that album and I didn’t.

Are you going to be one of those producers that we always see in the videos or are you behind the scenes type?

I’m like behind the scenes, I’m in the camera. I’m a little bit of this, a little bit of that. We haven’t shot any major videos yet so that might be one reason why you haven’t seen me on the camera but I am definitely going to be apart of the camera.

Tell us a little about your production company Drum Squad.

We got Drum Squad LLC. We got DSP Drum Squad Productions. We are a bunch of cats that go hard. All of us came from Memphis. We try to bring to the table more then just beats. We are creating the sound of the south. We are representing what we stand for and that is Memphis. DSP is real niggas getting money and teaching niggas how artist are paid and how not to fuck over niggas. We are trying to set examples and changes peoples lives. In the music industry you see so many niggas get fucked so we are teaching niggas.

What project are you working on right now?

We are working on Karstyle. He is a 16 year old rapper out of Memphis. DJ Drama’s Gangsta Grills is coming pretty soon. We are working with Gangsta Boo. We just did a DJ Swave mixtape on her. We have been doing some stuff with Ton Tone which is one of Jazze Pha’s artist, Slim Thug, Pall Wall, Willie The Kid, Rico Love, Slick Pulla and the list goes on.

Are there any other projects that you are working on outside of production?

We are working with a lot of creative writers such as Johnta Austin. We are working on an independent movie with my boy K-Cutta from out of Memphis called Chapters. We have a couple of distribution deals on the table now.