Lil Cuete Walk With Me CD

He recalls the first time he ever produced a track. 'My first beat was made with an old hand-me-down Panasonic turntable and a pair of tape decks. I was making pause loop tapes before I knew what they were. The first 'beat' was a piano loop from a Bobbi Humphrey slab sprinkled with James Brown and Aretha Franklin chops. I'm not normally one to brag but the beat was nasty for a first considering the tools I had at my disposal at the time.

' His official journey into the world of production began during his last semester at Hampton University when he was introduced to a four track computer program, on what he believes was an Amiga computer. One of his suite mates and first musical mentor, Rashid Mayes (aka Dark Matter), became his first regular working partner in rhyme. With Rashid he met and worked with a number of artists from all over the US who lived in Hampton at the time along with Rashid's team from his home, Columbia, Maryland. It was at this time, after staying in Hampton a year after dropping out, he dabbled with what he calls 'freestyling at its worst' alongside production he began to see Hip Hop as a potential way to survive while doing what he loved most. Although he was a writer and rhymed a little in high school, he never had the nerve to show his skills or consider music as an option for his livelihood. At the end of his stay in Hampton he received what he considered his call to return to the DC Metro area.