Ep. 13: Coffee Nerding, Classic Hip-Hop, Songwriting, and Producing Beats: A Conversation with Flatline

Published: Nov. 16, 2017, 5:45 a.m.

b'MPWALKER aka Michael Walker aka Flatline\\nWhat are you up to?\\nCoffee making\\nNashville songwriting at Starbucks, and all walks of life in Starbucks.\\nOn celebrities at Starbucks. BEN FOLDS!\\nA Ben Folds meet-up?\\n\\xa0\\n\\u201cArrive at Something\\u201d (original version) by Royal Ruckus\\n\\xa0\\nMeeting Moonhooch, clip from Number 9. Clip from \\u201cThe Waitress Song\\u201d by Royal Ruckus.\\nHow Ben Folds inspired some of our songs.\\nOne of Chunjay\\u2019s favorite songwriters is Benjamin Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie or The Postal Service.\\nFlatline on producing beats: \\u201cWe don\\u2019t sound like hard-hitting gangster, New York rap, by our beat standards, but having that inspiration\\u2026okay, this really changes everything.\\u201d\\n\\u201cYou have to prove you\\u2019re a creative person in the hip-hop scene because there is so much biting going on.\\u201d\\nOn natural talent in music. On our history together and training in music.\\nFlatline: \\u201cThere\\u2019s only so much mumble rap I can get with before I can be like, \\u2018I don\\u2019t have enough cough syrup to drink to keep up with you bro.\\u2019\\u201d\\nWhat are we drinking? Flatline discusses Wild Gift Coffee in Austin, TX. On Mexican Coffee.\\nMemory lane: coffee tasting like wine tasting.\\nExtended discussion of how to enjoy coffee.\\nFrench press. Hand pour.\\xa0\\xa0V-60?\\nFlatline loves Indonesian and Mexican coffees. He explains why.\\n\\u201cIndonesian coffee tends to be earthy, mushroomy, musty, moist smelling. It doesn\\u2019t smell sweet, usually.\\u201d\\n\\xa0\\n\\u201cGimme Dat\\u201d by Cookbook and Flynn Adam from the Best in Class EP.\\n\\xa0\\nOn organic coffee and fair trade designations. More about coffee. Coffee, coffee, coffee.\\nSam Adams Pumpkin ale. Guinness and other ales.\\nChunjay on Saltwater Brewery in Delray Beach. Both gentlemen discuss Guinness beer and other drinks.\\n\\xa0\\n\\u201cCafe Marata\\u201d by Royal Ruckus. Shouts to Mase and Alice Cooper. Shout to Sphereofhiphop.com\\n\\xa0\\nFlatline\\u2019s favorite taco: Al Pastor. On breakfast tacos. On Chunjay gaining weight in Austin eating tacos, drinking beer and liquor, and working on the album. Chunjay on the origins of Al Pastor: Lebanese immigrants brought the style to Mexico. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_pastor\\nOn beat production and dope hip-hop.\\nFlatline and Chunjay growing up together.\\nPete Rock beat instrumental inspiration. Remix of Juicy by Notorious BIG. Flatline shows his cards.\\n\\xa0\\n\\u201cBehind the Scenes\\u201d by Royal Ruckus from Pocket Lint and Spare Change (Deluxe Edition).\\n\\xa0\\nOn making beats together, and writing to other people\\u2019s music.\\nOn Flatline\\u2019s beats vs. buying beats online.\\nHow Royal Ruckus makes music together. On solo projects together. On Shadow of the Locust and other side groups.\\nOn hatred of phone calls.\\nChunjay: \\u201cOnly sociopaths make phone calls without texting first, unless you\\u2019re a telemarketer. What do you want?\\u201d\\nRoyal Ruckus anniversaries: 1 year for Summer of the Cicadas, 15 years for Self-Titled, 20 years for the group.\\nOn The Royal Ruckus and booking shows.\\nClosing song: \\u201cThe Chicken-Filled Donut Caper\\u201d by Royal Ruckus from Pocket Lint and Spare Change (Deluxe Edition).\\nBackground beats by Flatline, Cookbook, Ben Folds, Moonhooch, Pete Rock, Panos Kiamos.\\nExtra Shout-Outs: Taboo Tales Podcast, Steven Curtis Chapman, Bill Gaither, Jimmy Wayne, Lance Bass from N*Sync, Pattie Griffin, RZA from Wu-Tang, Beastie Boys, Herb Alpert, Flatline\\u2019s dad, Delinquent Habits, Cypress Hill, House of Pain, Soul Assassins, DJ Muggs, DJ Lethal, Funkdoobiest, Wu-Tang, UMC\\u2019s, Liquid Swords by GZA, Groovebox drum machine, Panos Kiamos, Tom Green\\u2019s \\u201cUndercutters,\\u201d Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Royal Ruckus, AudioFeed Festival, The Giant and the Tailor.'