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Interview with Mannie Fresh (DJ/producer/rapper)
- 0:04 Name and upbringing in the 7th Ward, his dad (DJ Sabu), where his dad performed, how Mannie began, influences, instruments
- 4:10 DJing parties, moog + 808—live performing: Slick Leo, DJ in NO, and his group Sugarhill—keyboard and 808 live performance was the hot thing at the time
- 10:25 New York Incorporated, Jam Patrol, Davey D
- 12:40 Where his name came from, changing his name early in career often due to sampling
- 13:15 His work Gregory D
- 15:30 Bringing bounce to Cash Money, where they would do A&R, Big Man’s Lounge and others in Magnolia—bounce as the essence of hip-hop
- 17:15 Magnolia Shorty
- 19:17 UNLV
- 21:30 Juvenile and the making of his career, producers in the past vs now—“the era of the super-producers is gone”
- 29:20 On more work DJing than production
- 30:55 People recording today vs then, lack of instrumentals
- 32:05 On producing with live instrumentalists—400 Degreez instrumentals were played in the studio live, not looped or sampled or sequenced—also played live on drum machine, not programmed
- 33:45 Brass bands
- 36:05 Importance of humor in his work, violence in rap
- 39:15 On his favorite show in NO, wanting to do a festival
