I grew up, and I'm getting the chance to make music with the people I idolized.
— Adrian Younge
We love high-end art, but when you're looking at high-end art in music, a lot of the time, it's appreciated academically, but you can't feel it as much.
When you get older, you try to get what you wanted as a kid. Maybe you wanted an arcade in your house or Q-Tip rapping on your beats.
Generally, as a composer, it's perceived as an employer-employee relationship.
As a freelance artist, you have to please somebody instead of just making music. But when the employer trusts and leans on you to determine what is right for a scene or feeling, that's ideal.
I'm a film composer, but I'm a hip-hop guy.
