I Just Want To Make

I Don't Want Kids Listening To My Music Thinking It's For Their Parents. I Want Them To Feel It's Theirs.

Hip-hop Was My First Real Love, One That Was My Own And Wasn't My Parents' Music. Initially, I Was Inspired By Hip-hop Fashion. Over The Years, I Kept The Hip-hop Sensibility, But Make It My Own.

Breakfast Is The Most Important Meal Of The Day And I Definitely Have A Hearty Breakfast Before I Do Anything.

I Shopped At J. Crew In High School, I Studied Computer Science. I Was A Nerd-nerd, Now I'm A Music-nerd.

I Grew Up In The '80s And '90s Listening To Public Enemy And Mobb Deep And The Smashing Pumpkins. I Don't Even Know What It Was Like In The '60s - I Wasn't Alive Then - So The Mayer Hawthorne Sound Is Taking What I Can Learn From The Classics, And Blending It With My Hip-hop Dj And Producer Background And Punk-rock Bands That I Played In As A Kid.