

What's your favorite James Blake song? ** **You've said part of the reason you wanted to start the RL Grime project was because you started getting into James Blake's music. It was the first time I had heard "party rap." I just remember listening to that album on the way to school, and when I was in school, and being blown away by the production. I think I got the album when I was in 6th grade. Probably "Many Men." But there's just so many records on that album that, you know, just the whole thing flowed and was so cohesive to me. What's your favorite song on that album? ** **âIn another interview, you said Get Rich Or Die Tryin' was super influential to your music. I haven't even been able to use them yet.

Are there any good courses around here? I've been to Chelsea Piers, that's pretty fun.Ĭallaway, but my manager actually just got me a new set of Nike irons for my birthday this year. But, yeah, I didn't really have any other passions in high school other than music. I always say that those shows are a big reason I'm doing this now, because I was exposed so early. But other than Spice Girls, I would go to Electric Daisy Carnival and that type of shit in, like, 2007 when I was still in high school. Honestly, I think it was the Spice Girls when I was, like, 12 years old. **What was the first show you went to? ** In fact, more than half of the music he plays is not his own, and of that, half are remis, but in terms of packaging 90 minutes of relentless, bombastic bass, horns, and drums, it's hard to imagine anyone doing it better. Tha Carter III-era Lil Wayne, Outkast, and almost half of Kanye West's Yeezus are added as flavoring to the otherwise lyrics-less set. Of course it's not all RL Grime tracks on the setlist. Right now, Lunice of production duo TNGHT is on stage opening for Grime, but in roughly 30 minutes, Henry will transform from regular dude to trap music maestro, spinning his brain-rattling beats off his recent album, Void. Standing in the middle of the room is Henry Steinway, better known as RL Grime, and, maybe even better known than that as one-time Vegas resident DJ Clockwork. Room temperature liquor is laid out casually on a folding table, Camels are smoked liberally, beers fill the fridge, and half-eaten snacks, including Chex Mix, are picked at. The scene backstage at Terminal 5 in NYC on Friday evening looks like the kind of pregame brofest you'd find in any apartment across America that's rented by men in their mid 20s.
