Producer Prince (of Prince N Purp, not to be confused with The Purple One but likely to be hearing from his lawyers in the not too distant future) cracks open FL Studio to floss the anatomy of Waka Flocka’s too-short cathartic maybe-masterpiece “Stereo Type.” In addition to getting a rare chance to hear such a densely layered track broken down to its very last compound, it’s also cool to see Prince so comfortably playing his MacBook’s alphanumeric keyboard as if it was a musical one. He obviously isn’t the first producer to do so, but the purely utilitarian evolution of a non instrument into an instrument never ceases to be fascinating to me. Dudes are playing the piano like my dad writes emails. I wonder if the future will see an entrepreneurial virtuoso ala Araabmuzik who can perform complex compositions in real time by way of pressing caps lock.
Well it is pretty fucking fun to load an 808 kit on your key board and trigger those blasts of snares into a beat that will never exist.