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Hip-Hop Wired: What is your beat-making process?

Key Wane: I’ll probably just be like watching TV at home or like playing video games, and I’ll have an idea. I’ll sketch out a blueprint, probably lay some chords down and some drums and then come back to it a couple hours later to listen to it again, and probably come up with an idea for a hook. That’s how I’ve written a couple hooks, and verses for people, and then come back to it add more, send it to somebody see what they think….it’s never really just a one day process. I don’t really feel like something I would want to be considered really good would take only one day so it takes a while.

Hip-Hop Wired: Do you ever feel any pressure to deliver?

Key Wane: No, because I do my part and I do it out of a genuine [place]. I just make it, I never feel mad if somebody wants to build it more, or it’s just not there because I’m all about the “bigger the song the better the situation.” So I’m not going to throw any shade on somebody who feels the song isn’t done. We can work on the song for two years –like me and Sean was doing on songs for Hall of Fame while working on Detroit and Hall of Fame came out this past August. I would be comfortable if we work on one song for like two years because who knows it might sounds totally different two years later. I just like having fun with music and sounds. I never limit it.

 Hip-Hop Wired: You seem very grounded, how do you stay that way?

Key Wane: Because I started out doing it for the right reasons.  I started probably [in the] eight grade, I started off with the piano and I really wanted to do it. It wasn’t something my mom forced me to do to stay occupied, I just really loved sounds and then I wanted to always make beats with the sounds…Everything I’m doing now is what I prayed for.

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