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Louden Beats- Just getting started

   

Weapons of choice:  
Turntables, bass, piano, Reason and Pro Tools
Musical influences:  
Family,Murs, DJ Premier, 9th Wonder and  Deadmau5.

Louden Beats, DJ/ Producer/ Reverie's brother, has been keeping busy with  his first tour in Europe with his sister. Although this LA native has not been dabbling in the music industry for long, most people can probably never tell; especially after producing 8 of Reverie's songs off of her fifth album, The Transition, and also mixed and mastered the album as well.

At age 17 Louden was in juvenile hall for over a year. When he was released, his family had moved to Seattle, WA and on the way up his dad showed him Reverie's work. With his fathers encouragement he bought him an M Box and influenced him to record Rev's music. Within that month Louden had completed recording Reverie's album.  

Louden Beats and Reverie

"It really was out of nowhere. I've always been into computers and I've always liked music so I just clicked with it right away. I picked it up hella fast. If I wouldn't have found the music or heard my sister rapping I wouldn't have been doing shit. I would of been back in LA being crazy"


Despite being busy packing for Europe Louden took some time out to sit down and chat with Piece Magazine.

Piece: You're going to Europe dude! What are your plans while you're over there?

Louden: We have a lot of studio sessions set up while we're there [and] we have interviews set up while we are there. It's crazy 'cause they don't even speak English... well a little bit of English.  It's going to be a crazy experience. I am super excited. If someone told me five years ago I was going to Europe I would tell them fuck off you're full of shit. [laughing] We have six shows lined up and we're filming a music video in Paris.
Piece: How has your style changed over the last couple of years?

Louden: Recently I've been making really upbeat, kind of happy, mellow kind of beats and I haven't been sampling as much. In the stuff that's coming out it's all going to be no sampling. That's going to be a big change. In my opinion it brings out what I am really feeling instead of what the sample is feeling at the time. With sampling you hear something dope and just use it, but making your own sounds and playing it out is what you're really feeling at that moment."

Piece: Whats the most important thing you've learned  being an independent artist?

Louden:  No one's going to help you unless you want to be helped and keep pushing. That goes for everything in life. You can make as many beats or [as much] music as you want but if you don't put it out there or work with other people nothing is gonna happen with it. Pushing your art out there and making connections is what it's all about.

Where the magic happens

Piece: I know that you have made a song with Self  Provoked. Do you see yourself branching out more in the near future?

Louden: Yeah. definitely. Self provoked and I have been talking about making a cd. I feel like everything happens at the right time. I do want to work with other artists. It's hard when I'm working on two cd's with Reverie and the whole tour is coming up and we have shows coming up. I do see myself working with more people.

Piece:  In the music in the industry right now what things do you feel need to change?

Louden: Get rid of Miley Cyrus. [laughing] People need to stop listening to what everyone else is saying to listen to. Listen to what you want to listen to.

Piece:  Who is the most embarrassing artist you have in your music collection?

Louden: I listen to a lot of old school disco. I like that one song by the Flock of Seaguls  [singing] "I ran so far away"

Piece: What do you see in the future of Hip Hop?

Louden: Transformation. It's been transforming. In ten years it's going to sound different. The underground is going to sound like another underground and main stream is going to sound like another kind of main stream. It's going to be the same movement just another generation.

Piece: Do you have any last shout out's or fuck you's?

Louden: Fuck you to my my P.O. back in the day. Shout outs to my mom, my dad, Piece Magazine, Reverie and all of Hip Hop.



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Fawksie 1-Poetry at it's finest

Fawksie 1 has been laying down tracks,hitting cyphers and representing real Hip Hop for years now. Her delivery is sharp and she is to be taken seriously on the mic. This hip hop veteran has recently entered motherhood and is working on a new project. We ran into her at a show and decided it was time to sit down with her.

Piece: Recently you became a mother. How has being a mom influenced you in Hip Hop?

Fawksie: I think I was already somewhat of a mother in Hip Hop. The way I guide people through my music is like a mother. My lyrics that I spit, the knowlege and truth I try to bring into my music is almost like a mother's blessing.

Piece: Has being a mother influenced your writing at all?

Fawksie: Definitely. It has influenced my writing in a way I have to learn how to balance but as a writer I've always been on the same tip. I was never on no bull shit. Everything that I spit I feel that I can present it to my daughter and be proud of it.

Piece: What is the one thing you would like your daughter to take away from you as a woman in Hip Hop?

Fawksie: Respecting herself and embracing music. Respecting yourself as a woman.

Piece: Who are some of the femcees that you admire or you see that have a lot of potential?



Fawksie: I don't look up since I am a little bit older, I've been going on 9 years now, but definitely the homegirl Reverie and the homegirl Vel the Wonder. I'm so proud of them and I support them all the way. I support most female artists but there's alot of other artists out there that are trying to take the wrong route and taint Hip Hop. They are trying to blow up when it's not even about that.

Piece: What do you feel is tainted in hip hop?

"I am the queen who reigns supreme"

 Fawksie: There's pros and cons. I came up when there wasn't any internet, there was no Facebook, there wasn't any Youtube. We were just straight battling on the streets and battling at open mics. Now everything is different becasue it's almost like a popularity contest. People are just out to get liked and out to get a different type of attention....I don't know haha just being commercialized. People want to live off of their art when that's not what it's for. You gotta have a balance then it's just tainted.

Piece: You've been doing this for a while. How was it at the beginning for you when it was all males in Hip Hop? Did you have something to prove more than anybody else?

Fawksie: The way I carry myself I've never felt that way other females might feel. They might feel a little more attacked by dudes. It's all about how you carry yourself. I always carry myself a certain way to where people respect me and they see how I am on stage.

Piece: What do you want people to take away from your art?

Fawksie: Healing, power, understanding and street knowledge.

Piece: Who are some of the femcee's you look up to?

Fawksie: Jean Grae. A lot of people say Jean Grae but I give a lot of props to Jean Grae becasue she's fuckin' sic. I grew up listening to people like Mc Lyte, Queen Latifah , Lauryn Hill or whatnot and when I originally started getting into the L.A. underground Hip Hop scene JRoz already had an album out when I was barely comin' up and that was one person that I was like wow she has this out and that was something for me to be like I can do this just like her. Just the way a lot of femcees are looking at me the same way. I have people hitting me up asking me questions too but the reality of what I really think is I just put in work. I was out there all the time grinding, selling cd's, rocking mics and that's how people know me; raw in your face. People knew me up close and personal. I'm a humble person and I'll talk to you straight up.



Piece: What are some of your goals? What do you want to see come out of yourself as an artist?

Fawksie: My goal in Hip Hop is to keep making music and to keep inspiring women and emcees. Trying to expose truth to a lot of people who are ignorant to the things that are going on in this world. Hip Hop helped me in so many ways. I can never even repay it but I will in what ever way I can.

Love Struck released in 2012

Piece: What kind of things do you have coming up?

Fawksie: I'm working on a project right now. I don't have a set time. I never go on a time. Let's just say it will be the best album I've released by far.

Piece: Do you have any collaborations that you want to mention?

Fawksie: Yeah. Vel, Reverie  and a lot of dope producers.

Piece: Do you have any last shoutouts or fuck you's you want to say?

Fawksie: I wanna say fuck you to commercial Hip Hop, fuck all these fake ass stupid hoes you know what I'm saying? Making women into objects.Women deserve respect. We're the mothers birthing all you motherfuckers so man up! I wanna  say a big shout out to my homie EQ. He's been one of my biggest inspirations since day one. Big shout out to Northeast L.A. because that's where I was born and that's where I learned what I learned and smoke some herb cuz that's what I'm about to do right now.



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