Today we’d like to introduce you to EZM.
Thanks for sharing your story with us Eric. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
I never thought I would be making music until I got to college, I was always a lover of all music but growing up African was expected for me to take the usual route in school. Engineering or medical but honestly after my first job in high school I knew I couldn’t live that life. I had FL Studio two years before I started making beats cause my homie Antonio who also raps and produces gave me the software on my first and only computer just cause until I got to college and my friend also damn near cousin John started rapping and wanted to take it seriously. So here we are all freshmen in college spending our refund money on new type clothes, shoes all that and type equipment to record. So it was really just John recording music and dropping it trying to gain a buzz throughout Houston and anywhere else honestly and I was just having my creative input I didn’t start making beats until spring 2015 because John needed beats to rapped on so since I already had FL Studio I decided to actually try and make beats the timing only made sense, the only thing was my beats were straight cheeks.
It wasn’t even beats it was unorganized noise, my joints literally made no sense I made beats without the metronome on, 808’s dumb out of key, everything you can think of. So after getting help from my close friends Antonio and Taylor i literally began to get better at music every single month and I could see my own self-growth and notoriety of making beats around campus especially since I was the one making the loudest noise on our freshman dorm floor. As time went by I began to feel like I was good enough to sell my beats and I was letting em go for the low but it was cool amounts of money to be in college. Then summer 2015 came and me more homies were back in Houston for the summer and we’re still making music and more friends we went to high school with also began to make music at the same time so we all needed a place to record, make beats, etc. That place was 8000 Cook Road. 2015 summer helped me to get to where I am today and It’s not over yet.
Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
Of course it hasn’t been a smooth road, its been the most bumpiest I ever been on and it’s not even over so imagine how much more driving I gotta do. Some of the struggles were trying to duck out of the house with my laptop to get to our homie Ernest house to cook up or record. Because I couldn’t just flat out tell my parents I was making music, I had to constantly do the most lying to be able to go make music. Also since we were still in college so trying to balance both things was a challenge but not the craziest cause I didn’t fully care about school I always finessed doing things outside of school was the real importance. One thing I can say is the amount of risks I’ve taken, for example, me and my homies skipped a whole week of school cause we randomly thought about going to New York and just did like a day or two of planning and just dipped. We all used our refunds and just left mainly to go make music with some people we had some connections within New York. We didn’t even think about all the extra so when we got there we went straight to the studio the next day and got to work and while we were out there we just tried to do as much as possible to leave an impact. One day we seen a tweet about the address to the Yeezy season 3 casting call so we hurried and took a uber there and when we got there it was hellah real models there and we ended up doing it anyway. But long story short was we ended up getting casted in the fashion show but we left the city already we were so hurt. So one thing I always do is TAKE RISKS.
Please tell us about EZM.
My business is EZM: Producer, songwriter, designer, creative director and much more. I dont have a limit as to what I can do I make myself accessible to be the best me I can be. I specialize in Music Production and Creative direction but mainly known for music production. I’m mostly proud of my company because i can always top myself and reach new heights, accomplish and hop in more bags, like I said there’s no limit (type Master P), What sets me apart from others is my style and the way that I think I don’t typically like to be usual or something you’ve seen or heard already, like why not create new type vibes? I’m trying to break some barriers with my production and have people hopping on different kinds of beats that actually do numbers kind of like what Timbaland and Missy Elliot did.
If you had to go back in time and start over, would you have done anything differently?
I would have for one smooth took the idea for “Bad and Boujee! One of the best beats made in the year of 2017! Nah I’m playing, but I would definitely execute and fully play out all ideas and all risks that I’ve taken over the past five years and make sure they were done right. I mean anybody would cause that would change your whole life. But in most cases, the mistakes you make in life are what builds as a person too and gets you to where you want to go and be in life. Also putting yourself in predicaments to meet people will take you far and learning to talk to any and everybody. Network like a cartoon. Type.
Contact Info:
- Email: ezmproduce@gmail.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_ezm/?hl=en
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/Illmatic_Tactic
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