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HHW: Why don’t you send your music out to get mixed?

Dae Dae: I’m the only one who knows what I want to hear, versus doing a song and sending your session to somebody else to mix it. It’s not gonna sound how you want it to sound. You might want an ad lib with an echo and when you send it off, it don’t have an echo when they finish with it. Or, you may want to drop the beat on one part, but they may not have the same type of sound or equipment, so every sound ain’t the same. I spent a lot of time working on the program and mixing it myself. I feel like I know what the streets want from me. So I do it myself.
HHW: At what point did you go from making music in the studio to actually letting people hear it?
Dae Dae: I started off just letting my friends hear it. I had four or five friends listen to it and tell me if they liked it. I started doing open mics at Club Lacura. This girl named Antionette convinced me to do it. I felt like I was too good for that, but I tried it one night and I did very good and got a good response.

HHW: Atlanta’s open mic crowd can be vicious. Sometimes they won’t even cheer if you are good, because most of the people in the crowd rap too.

Dae Dae: That’s what comes with being an artist. I was nervous at first, but the further you go the more comfortable you get and the better responses you get. I started feeling myself after a while. I didn’t used to dance to “What U Mean” on stage, but when I got comfortable I started doing the dance.

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