I am in awe of my baby sister. Keep your ears out for her; she goes by
Siiren and she’s no joke. She recently
sent me just a rough cut of a beat she did for a track featuring Atlanta MCs Notiq and B.Ware and
vocalist Zewdy (and all of her gorgeous hair).
In short, I couldn’t be more proud; Siiren’s a beast. We’ve kinda had this ongoing beat battle in
the house for years, and she’s definitely winning right now...
So yeah--- in my spare time, I’m a beatmaker myself; I got
my first drum machine from my cousin Andre Ellis around 1998, got into Fruity
Loops a few years down the road. I don’t have a knack for it the way my sister
does (she was already a dope instrumentalist before she ever touched a beat
program), but I can put it down in my own experimental, trial-and-error way.
