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The Toronto musician/producer on working with Drake, Noah ’40′ Shebib, Boi-1da, moving to L.A., working with Pusha T on his new mixtape “Wrath Of Caine”, and Toronto’s unique sound. LD Editorial Staff Arthur McArthur helped set the tone for Drake‘s debut & seminal EP “So Far Gone” & hasn’t slowed down a bit since then. [...]

Carrie Battan from Pitchfork: When I first interviewed Harlem rapper A$AP Rocky, in the fall of 2011, we talked in the small common room in the midtown offices of RCA subdivision Polo Grounds. The then-23-year-old had just signed his major-label deal and was preparing the release of his first mixtape, LIVELOVEA$AP. After fielding questions from [...]

The producer is one of the most crucial yet anonymous figures in all of music. Every other week, with Beat Construction, an extension of our column in the magazine, we aim to illuminate the role producers are playing in creating some of our favorite music. For the latest installment we spoke to the Minnesota-bred, Dallas-based [...]

After an estimated 300 gigs and living in hotels during the past two years, Skrillex has new digs and is planning to “be taking a lot of time off in the next year” in order to dig into making some new music. “I have so much music. I have too many songs to even know [...]

As told to Lauren Nostro (@LAURENcynthia): “We were working on this one record that Khaled couldn’t use, and it ended up having Future and Drake on the hook. I ended up giving that same record to Lil Wayne. “Drake was on the “Club Paradise Tour” and he came to Atlanta. He fucks with me and [...]