I Make Soul Music For

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.

I Make Soul Music For Hip-hop Heads. It's Music I'd Want To Sample If I Were A Rapper.

I Really Love Rap Music. I Grew Up In The '80s And '90s With Public Enemy, N.w.a., Ll Cool J - I'm A Hip-hop Encyclopedia. But I Got Kind Of Frustrated With The Chauvinistic Side Of Rap Music, The One That Makes It Hard To Write Songs About Love And Relationships.

I Love Doing Things That People Don't Expect.

Having Stuff That Fits You Perfectly Makes The Craziest Difference. I Remember The First Times That I Was Introduced To That - Having A Shirt That's Actually Tailored To Your Body And Not Just Made For Your Average American. It Just Changes Your Life.