Damn it takes some skill to throw a Frisbee into a car for a person to catch. Additionally, it is a dope song.

Doc Ish – Make Moves (feat. Buckshot, Rock & Colloso)

So, it sometimes dawns on me randomly that I know a lot of cool motherfuckers that make some amazing music – but since I look at them as comrades first, I forget, I should interview these assholes. …such is the case of this kid they call Thelonious Martin. Check this shit out.

Who are you, where are you from, and, well, what the fuck do you do?

My name is Malcolm J. Martin, but if you like music you know me as Thelonious Martin. From Montclair, NJ via Chicago, I am a music producer, I make heads nod.

Alright, you’re not exactly from a hip hop Mecca. …how did you get into hip hop and eventually fall into beat making?

Started off rapping in middle school, but got more interested in the making of music, and it always interested me even before then I used to get in trouble for beat boxing and making sounds, so I eventually got all my equipment in like 2008 and I’ve been creating ever since.

Where might we have heard your production before? Who have you worked with? Beat compilations? …all that shit.

I have released a couple beat tapes, (Life Of A Teenage Champion, 1UP, Dusty Cartridges). Done production for K.Sparks, Quest, and Moshadee just to name a few, and even featured on the TV Themes Flipped Vol 1&2 with Curtiss King and a cornucopia of producers as well.

In terms of production, who are your favorites? Who do you look up to and who are you trying to model yourself after?

Growing up I was in love with whatever my dad was playing in his car during the summer, so it ranged from Wu-Tang we used to get crazy with to the Floetry we played when my little sister was in the car. As I grew up a bit more people like 9th Wonder, Dilla, and Dj Premier were people I really looked to in terms of style and a foundation to start my own.

Who is the one MC that you would throw a very sharp dart at a baby animal, let’s just say, a puppy (for specificity), to have rap over one of your beats?

Right now, there is a few artists I’d nudge cute cuddly animals into highway traffic for, The Money Making Jam Boys would be one even though its a whole group, yup thats right I cheated. I saw them perform at the Brooklyn Hip Hop fest and they really killed it. Same with Curren$y, yeah its a tie between them.

What do you love and/or hate about hip hop?

I love the music, hate the people who front like its some giant living off in the woods, hip hop is the people, however the people are, thats how the music and culture are gonna be.

So, what’s the plan? …where do you go from here?

Long term goal is a grammy, I do music for myself though. My music is an escape and relaxing process whatever emotions i have go into my beats. Hopefully 2-3 years from now my music be on radio’s nationwide, I’ll be a even better producer, and I’ll be in college.

If we could crack into your hard drive (or whatever ungodly place you keep your music), what would we find? Basically, who are you listening to? …please feel free to NOT limit that to just hip hop.

Honestly if someone got into my itunes they’d shit their self. it’s over 11,000 songs of everything, mainly because my mom and auntie used it too. It’s about roughly 1/3 songs i acquired hunting for samples and the rest is straight up good music. Not saying you won’t find a mainstream artists or two but hey music is music each song you can look at differently and puts you in a different state of emotion. Artist wise in my itunes though there is all of OFWGKTA, Hodgy Beats, Earl Sweatshirt, Tyler the Creator. There’s an astounding J Dilla library, some Janko Nilovic, Dexter Wansel, Dwele, Black Milk, Kanye, Lupe, Brandun Deshay, N*E*R*D. Lets just say its a lot.

What do you want to know about you, you young motherfucker? …what should we walk away from this interview knowing?

I just want people to know that I make feel good music, I turn eighteen on the nineteenth of next month so even though I’m “young” its still from the soul. Oh and that you should download everything from http:theloniousmartin.bandcamp.com/ and look out for Just For Kicks and Player 2…I guess thats it…Shout outs to my people in Montclair, Chicago, and the Left Coast

Peace.Love.And Dilla.

So that concludes my interview with newb Thelonious Martin. …this boy has a few beats that are near and dear to my heart (I know it’s awkward, thinking I have a heart. …and it may or may not be true, but you know what I fucking mean). You DEF need to give his music the old college try (check him out HERE). Peace.

Miami Beat Wave – Virtue Of Success (feat. Skyzoo & Wrekonize) (prod. by Miami Beat Wave)

Hezekiah – Cornbread (feat. D.R.E.S. Tha Beatnik)

Rah Digga – This Ain’t No Lil Kid Rap (Remix) (feat. Redman)

For a song called “Asian Girl,” there was a lack of them shown. Dope song nonetheless.

I’d rather have a ‘Kast album than these solo efforts, but Big Boi & Yela rip the track. Yela’s growing on me…he ripped the hell outta Rock the Bells. There should be a remix with Twista or Tonedeff.

Wiz Khalifa interview…he talks about his influences (Killa!) as well as some other stuff.

Trek Life – Due West

DJ Muggs & Ill Bill – Chase Manhattan (feat. Raekwon)

Cee-Lo Green – Fuck You!

T.I. – Pledge Allegiance To The Swag (feat. Rick Ross) (prod. by J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League)

Big K.R.I.T. – If I Should Die (prod. by Big K.R.I.T.)

Wiz Khalifa – Black & Yellow (prod. by Stargate)

PUSH! Montana – Fa Sho! (feat. Freddie Gibbs & Killa Kyleon) (prod. by Canei Finch)

Nipsey Hussle – Grind Mode

I’m a huge fan of these types of videos. It’s always great to see how a producer constructs a beat. Always a dope watch.

Apollo Brown – The Reset Instrumentals