ZL: What about No I.D., working with him?
Now let's just talk about Deon for a second because anyone who knows anything about him as a producer and subsequently as somebody who has helped other people take their vision to record industry workâand he's touched lots of parts of people's lives, and you know most recently on the Jay-Z record his work on that is exemplary.
JM: It's brilliant.
ZL: Really unbelievable the way he was able to capture what Jay was trying to say in such an emotional, honest way and give him the template to do it on. Now I'm working with him and you working in that world you've definitely worked in all sorts of different genres before so why did you team up with No I.D., what was it about him?
JM: I liked the idea of still being the musician that I've always been but changing the vocabulary a little bit. Certainly this is not a hip-hop track, but it has a vitality to it that I think is really modern. And it was interesting to work with him because he's just such a great artist in terms of samples and taking things and moving them around and really turning it into an instrument. There's no doubt, like, his use of Ableton is insane. It's like a violin for him.