1017 Brick Squad producer SouthSide, who produced “Illest Motherfucker Alive” on Watch the Throne, revealed in a recent interview that he’s already working with Kanye West on some new records. Sizzle also discussed the dubstep element to his music, as well as his uncle’s profound influence on his career. For all you misinformed readers out there (who are few and far between), SouthSide is Lex Luger’s older brother (metaphorically) and production brother.

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I remember reading something about Lex, when he did the “H•A•M” beat, that Kanye and Jay flew him out to New York, or he worked with them in the studio. When you did the beat for them, for “Illest Motherfucker Alive”, that wasn’t the case, right?

Naw, that wasn’t the case. [laughs] They didn’t give me those privileges. [laughs]

Were you a little envious of that?

Naw, I’m not that type of person. I was glad to see my little brother make it up there and get to meet them.

Yeah, but obviously you’d like to get in the studio with them.

Actually I went and chilled with Kanye at his show, for like five or six hours, man. He’s a cool dude. He’s real cool. But it’s coming. I just sent more records to them, seeing about doing some more records.

Kanye and Jay?

Kanye, yeah, we’re working again. We’re on some other stuff again.

Oh, man. He sounds so good over your stuff.

Yeah, man, we’re working again. It’s on, man. And we’ve got Waka’s album right now, that Triple F Life album, we’re working on that full volume right now.

 

Could you tell me a little bit about Uncle Poogie (sp?)

Oh, Uncle Pooky (sp?) [laughs] You’re crazy. [laughs] Uncle Pooky. Man, my uncle, you know how it is, he’s young but he’s your uncle still. He’s older than you but he’s the youngest. You know you’ve got those kids who have everything but are just bad for no reason? That was me as a kid. The only thing my mom could do was punish me. So I had to sit in the house for months. My uncle came in the house one day with a laptop. I don’t know how he got it or nothing. [laughs] But he came in our house with a laptop and was like, “Man, what you doing? You do your homework?” I was like, “Yeah, I did my homework.” He was like, “You clean up your room?” I was like, “Yeah, I cleaned up my room.” He was like, “Look, I’ve got this laptop. There’s a program on here. It’s called FruityLoops. You can make beats on it.” He was a rapper. He was like, “You can make beats on it. Start making beats. Learn how to make beats.” I just started fucking with that shit. He came home the next week. I had like four or five beats done. He was like, “Damn, you’ve put this together already?” I was like, “Yeah, I’m figuring it out.” And now we’re doing it. Shit’s crazy. [laughs]

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