RSR273 - Patrick Rene aka Killah Trakz - Writing & Producing Old School Hip Hop in Miami
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2020
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Patrick Rene aka Killah Trakz a Miami native rapper and hip hop music producer who has worked with artists like Iconz, Rick Ross, 2 Live Crew, and Uncle Luke to name a few.
An analog junkie at heart adapting in the world of digital, Trakz has been at the forefront of the digital revolution of music distribution by having one of the most downloaded albums in the MySpace / Napster era titled " Hoodz Prodigy ".
Getting his start in '07 at a time when the "Internet" was at its peak of popularity for all advocates of music, sites like AcidPlanet, UGHH, MP3.com, and hundreds more were gaining more notoriety by the day. Within the first week, Trakz saw his debut album surpass 50,000 downloads with ease. Overnight Success was an "understatement" for what would follow.
After landing several placements with his production on numerous indie films, Trakz got calls from everyone wanting his sound. By 2008, his sound was hitting the radio waves but getting heard by millions by "ghost producing" for the likes of many of today's favourites.
I met Trakz through our Facebook group at Recording Studio Rockstars. He kept posting so many great hip hop songs that I knew I had to learn more. So I am excited to have him join us today on the podcast to hear more about his story and see what we can learn about writing, producing, and mixing hip hop in the digital age.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by OWC, PreSonus, API Audio, Isotope, Sound Porter, Mastering, JZ microphones, and Spectra-1964, |
| 0:14.0 | on the JZB-B-29 microphone through the Spectra-1964 STX-100 Micpre, C6610 Complementer, and Isotope RX, and Ozone. |
| 0:24.4 | So get ready to rock. |
| 0:26.6 | The thing I realized is people wanted to be around me and they feed off my energy. |
| 0:31.1 | People don't pay you just to pay you. |
| 0:33.4 | They pay you for your taste. |
| 0:34.9 | They pay you for who you are. |
| 0:37.0 | And I was like, hmm, that makes a lot of sense. |
| 0:40.1 | So let me just embrace me who I am and share that with the world. And if they love it, they love it. |
| 0:46.4 | If they don't, well, there's plenty others, but there's none as unique as me. |
| 1:01.6 | Welcome to recording studio rock stars. |
| 1:03.8 | I'm Lid Shaw and this is the podcast created to help you become a rock star of the recording studio. |
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