Itz ReXii Dubz interview at Resident

0:00A: Yeah, bro. But like, because I like I follow a pink noise curve. You know what I mean? Like our try to. Yeah, bro. I do understand what you mean by that too. And it’s like, I’m not supposed to be honest. I don’t want to. I’m not going to use the term. The misunderstanding in frequencies is you have to turn down a bunch of stuff. Yeah. Yeah. You really just got to carve and make space. But at the same time, you can pump this up. Like, bro, it’s going to take up like certain things. Especially like when you’re dealing with stuff. And that’s cool. Stems, you get like, especially like some instrumentals, that’s what I feel like, you know what I’m saying? Because normally when you’re working with like a 2-track, it’s like, you know what I’m saying, straight up, you know what I’m saying?

0:49B: It’s a different ratio. You spin fire, you’re dope, bitch.

0:55C: Yes.

0:55A: I’m so --

0:56B: I love fire spinners. They’re so fucking dope. I got friends who spin fire, who spin like, who spun for me like during my sets. They’re so gas. Yeah, like just to see like all the shit that they can do like while they’re fucking spinning fire. Like, it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful. It’s so different. It’s so different from like regular fucking dragon staffs. But I do like the dragon staffs that you can connect to your cell phone and you can like customize them. I know, I’ve seen those.

1:21C: So I started, I started with a contact staff, which is kind of the same, but it doesn’t have as many spokes.

1:26B: So like, I know how to flow, but I started with an Orbit and then like I picked up flow starring last year in August.

1:31C: Flow starring’s hard.

1:31B: Bro, I have like 10 now.

1:33C: Oh, I have like 10 now.

1:33B: My sister, my best friend CeCe Bean the Queen. Fucking, she’s sponsored by Spin Slope Star. And like, I would just watch her and like, I picked it up.

1:42C: Yeah.

1:42B: And like, I just, I kept practicing. Like, I’ll go out in my backyard. I have a big-ass backyard in Charleston. So like, I’ll take my pup out and like, yeah, he’ll just be in the sun. I mean, living his best life. Like, it’s really, it’s drilling, drilling.

1:53C: Yeah.

1:53B: Like, practice makes perfect. Like, practice makes perfect. Watching YouTube tutorials, watching like, going through your reels, seeing like, following other flowy groups. Like, yeah, just to see where it’s like, community for sure. I saw like one of the, like, where was I? Uh, No Sleep in Florida. We went through this Distinct Motive tour, and one of the last shows was at a fucking trampoline park.

2:14C: Oh shit!

2:16B: It was nuts. Like, my friends like flowing with their poidh. Like, I saw there was Master Class, he’s like one of the people like big for Spin Flow Star. He was there, and I saw him on a balance beam with a big Flow Star and like a regular-sized GE8. And I was like --

2:35C: Well, you make music, so you know how it is to enter a flow state. And like, I don’t make music.

2:39B: I didn’t always make music. I started DJing first.

2:43C: Okay.

2:43B: I started DJing first. I’ve been DJing like, this is year 6 for me. My production, I like, now I’m like, I can honestly say like fully, this is probably like, now I’m in like my 2 and a half, like into my 3rd year. I have more of a like understanding for it. But for sure, I started, I came up during COVID Like, that’s how I became a DJ. COVID was it for everybody. All you had, you couldn’t do anything.

3:05C: You had time.

3:05B: So like, nothing but time. My friends, like my DJ friends, like that were just like had decks for like shits and gigs. Because like we would do house parties and we’d like make a big old group chat and like everybody at their house, like when we would just vibe. That’s all we really had.

3:19C: I mean, I go back to your house still.

3:21B: You couldn’t go nowhere. Like we were fucking quarantined to like being stuck. So that was the only thing we had.

3:27C: And then creative. Why not?

3:28B: It was dope. It was dope. It was fun. And then like random just pop-ups in like random places in Florida. Daytona, especially Daytona, had like no restrictions. They did not give no shits.

3:40A: Here’s a question you’ve never heard. Oh, okay.

3:43C: So you said you started out as a DJ.

3:45B: I started out as a DJ first. I’ve been DJing 6 years.

3:48C: What made you want to start producing? What kickstarted your production career?

3:54B: Okay, so being an artist, like having big boy homies that are like bigger in the industry than I was when I decided, like they would, I would ask them advice. Like when I met Zuba freaking at an event, that my brother and his homeboy threw in a hotel takeover one year during FK. And I asked him artist questions like how you’re asking me, like, what’s your inspiration, stuff like that. Like, how do you do with this?

4:21C: That was my next question. What was your inspiration?

4:23B: He was like, yo, like, consistency is key and production is necessary. It doesn’t matter. You can have a good song, like song selection. You can be fire on those decks. Yeah, but if you’re not making music, you’re not going to be seen in an audience that you want to be seen in. So we connected because you played that. Daily Bread, baby! Daily fucking Bread!

4:45C: Who are some of your other inspirations?

4:48B: Love Daily Bread. Blunts off rip, that’s a homie, Florida fam off rip. Um, Tate B, Peekaboo, Seth David, um, Charles the First, RIP to a king. Um, I still love -- like, I started off playing heavy headbanger dubstep, so like my top 3, like still, and I’ll still stand for it: Gonzo White Knight, Excision, Slander. Off rip, top 3.

5:12C: Wobbles, baby.

5:13B: That’s the first show I ever went to. Wobbles, Rob, kill it. I love -- that was the first show that I ever went to, ever, when I started raving. And I started raving in 2018 when my brother -- when my brother passed away. Like, I, I didn’t even know what EDM was until someone, like one of my really good friends, introduced me into EDM and it saved my life.

5:31C: Yeah.

5:32B: After losing one of the most important people to you, like my brother was -- I wouldn’t be me right now if it wasn’t for him. And like Losing him, it put me in a -- like, I wasn’t in a good place. Like, I feel like angry.

5:43C: Like, I feel like outside looking in, people like see us going to these raves and partying and they don’t really understand how it actually is just a community that saves us.

5:52B: There’s so much to being an artist. Like, there’s like so many people rely on you and like, especially like if you’ve like, if you’re known known, like I’m known in Orlando. Like a lot of people like, I’m known.

6:04C: Talk your shit.

6:05B: I played, I played with Peekaboo, Turnian Sounds, Jamora.

6:08C: Talk your shit.

6:08B: I played on big boy lineups. But I still play underground festivals because those are still my friends. And I have friends that are old heads that are fucking fire, fire, but they don’t produce. But their deck sales, chef’s kiss, immaculate. Nothing like I’ve ever seen.

6:25A: Hell yeah.

6:27B: And like, I’ve been a self-taught producer. Nobody taught -- like, I’ve had people like influence me and like show me a couple things, but everything I’ve learned, trial and error. I learned the basics of DJing in 10 minutes. Everything else I learned Just play.

6:42C: All right, so you’re talking about playing those big shows and those underground shows. What’s your favorite set that you’ve played? When and where?

6:49B: Come on, give it to me. All right, so, okay, so honestly and truly, um, one of my favorite sets was when I played -- when I opened up for Peekaboo. That was one of my favorites. But right now, Standing, my mix that I just dropped January 23rd, um, it’s called The Roar Tapes Volume 1. It’s on my SoundCloud right now. It’s only been out maybe, what, like a month and some change? 9,000 and 400 and some change. Let’s go! Plays on that mix. Best mixing. One of my best mixes I have made thus far.

7:20C: Hell yeah!

7:22A: Thus far.

7:23B: I’m here with it!

7:25C: Hey!

7:25B: Talk your shit! It’s really good. Like, this mix is not like -- it’s, it’s not like your average mix. Like, I made sure I catered to every single friend and everything we do. Like, I made sure that it vibes so hard that you can flow the whole The whole fucking mix. The whole fucking mix.

7:44A: Oh.

7:44B: Hunty. That’s called Hunty.

7:46A: Hunty.

7:46B: All my favorite bangers. And then like, I played every favorite song that I, that I played. Like, I like remixes. That’s how I got known. Like, I started -- when I started, I played a fire live mashup of Ariana Grande’s 7 Rings.

8:01A: Ooh.

8:01B: Yeah. I want it, I got it. I’m sorry, I didn’t realize. Bro, when I tell you that song blew me the fuck up. It is my favorite Ariana Grande song. I want to remix it so bad. I’ve been working on it. It’s still like not even like --

8:17C: It’s in the lab right now.

8:18B: It’s in a file. It’s there. It’ll get there. But that’s what popped me off. And like, I learned how to like do -- like, I started off doing live mashups, not knowing how to record them or anything. Like, I didn’t even know how to use a fucking microphone. I just started like in the last like year and a half, started using the mic because I figured out how to use it. Didn’t know how, but I’m loud. I’m loud. People like, I’m so loud like people can hear me over that shit. Like, who needs a mic?

8:49A: I do.

8:50B: Straight up. So you spin fire like that? I have friends who like, I’ve had underground festivals where there’s like, I’ve had people spin fire during my sets and it sucks because I’m mixing and they’re fucking getting it to my music and I’m like, and I see out of my peripheral the little And I’m like, I want to look, I want to look, I want to look, but if I look, I’m gonna fuck up somewhere. I’m gonna miss the cue point, and then I’m not gonna be able to do this. And like, I think it’s a beautiful fucking --

9:21C: No, it’s beautiful.

9:22B: It’s a beautiful flow. Like, it’s sexual. Like, it really is.

9:26C: It’s like fire.

9:28B: Like, I like elements like that. Like, it’s, it’s, it’s kind of, kind of like, it’s as sexy as a saxophone, a violin, you know what I’m saying?

9:36C: Like There’s --

9:37B: you can tribal, like, you can do so much flowing to different genres of music.

9:43C: Well, a lot of, like, a lot of flow arts in that sense, like, comes from a lot of cultural shit that I feel like people don’t know the origins of a lot of it.

9:50B: No.

9:51C: But the reason it started for me was because I went to Big Dub. Shouts out to Big Dub.

9:56B: Bro, my friend, my homies have played Big Dub before. I got homies who played Big Dub.

10:00C: But they have a fire circle at Big Dub, and I went one year, and I’m just sitting there watching them all night. Just watching.

10:05B: It’s like you’re intrigued. Yeah, you’re intrigued. When I figured out like the Flow Star, I was like, yes, I’m a ninja. Like, I have my ninja star. Like, this is what I -- I was like, and I’m a fucking Ninja Turtle.

10:18C: Yes, it becomes an extension.

10:20B: Yeah, man. But that’s also how you create connections with people. Like, oh, I like being relatable to like my fans and stuff. Like, sure, I do. I like -- I’ve gone through enough. I’ve lost enough. Like, I’ve gone -- I’ve had ego deaths in my life and I’ve learned my life lessons to where like I’ve -- it took me years to get where I’m at now and I love like people like running up to me like, yo, I saw you here and like you’re the shit, I love you. Like, yeah, and I’m like, I love you, goddamn it. You’re beautiful. Like, and it’s just being positive. Like, I like being like, this is the one thing where I felt accepted in life. Like, I never felt like I belonged anywhere. Like, I always got like -- I got picked on as a kid for being different and like EDM was the one place that I was like, all right, this is where all the weirdos, but they’re cool as fuck. Yeah, this is where they hang out. I like them.

11:13C: Those interactions within the community is crazy. Like, you’ll never meet somebody before and then you’re just being a weirdo with them.

11:19B: But you’ll never meet the same person twice. You won’t. Like, you’ll never meet somebody who’s like the last person you met ever. Like, everybody is unique, talented in their own different ways. Like, I’ve met so many like incredible artists like that paint like while, while I’ve played like hotel takeovers. Like I have a friend whose name’s John and like he did a painting of me and this painting’s so fire and it’s not like exactly to the T my face. Like he like did it in the middle of a Renegade, but like it glows like me. It’s got my little, my little bang.

11:53C: It has your aura.

11:54B: Yeah, like, and it’s like, it’s so dope and it was like for the first time ever anybody’s ever like painted me live. And I was like, I like this. Like, you were just vibing. He was like, yo, you -- I played for like 2 hours. Like, it was my homeboys Renegade. And like, if I walk in the building, my homeboy’s like, nope, that’s my sister. My little sister’s playing. You have to wait your turn. And if you try to play after her, I feel sorry for you. Better have your music. Like, I like all music. I didn’t always like all music, but now like that I’ve been cultured. You I have like a taste for certain things. I love hip-hop, man. That’s where I -- origins.

12:34C: Well, that’s, that’s why we fuck with Daily Drive. Yeah, that shit, they tie that in there.

12:38B: Ratchet wubs. Yeah, that’s my genre. Like Tipper made Tip Hop and all that shit. Me, Ratchet Wubs. That’s it.

12:47C: You gotta make a mix like that now.

12:49B: I did. It’s on SoundCloud. Oh, that’s the one? Yes, I’m telling you. I’m tapping in immediately when I get home. I’m telling you, like, I -- like, this is the one thing, like, as an artist, we’re always hard on ourselves. We’re very self-critical and like, we’re our biggest -- we’re like our worst enemies when it comes to like being creative. And like, that mix is probably some of my best mixing. And I did it in like -- it was originally a 2 and a half hour mix, and then I took like -- I cut it and I put it in my DAW and it changed the game. Like, I’ve never put a mix in a DAW. Like, I had people who did sound engineering that would just run it through like a program and it would like quickly do it, not do what I did. Like, I literally manually --

13:29C: Talk yo shit.

13:30B: Duplicated my, my mix a million times and like panned it, like seriously EQ’d the fuck out of it without no help, without no knowledge of what I was doing. I just made sure everything was in green. As long as it’s not redlined -- well, if you ain’t redlined it, you ain’t headlined it, but there’s a time and place for that. But when you’re making music or you’re doing shit like that It has to be, you know. Uh, Gino, talking to you, Kylie. Girl, it’s my second time in Denver. First Denver debut. I hope it’s not my last one. I will for sure.