It really helped me find a direction, and where I was going to fit into music and my musical identity. When I was trying to think of a title the first thing I did was go to that song, because I feel like that was a major turning point in my career, and me making music. It’s taken from a lyric from a Lil B song I had done, I’m God. I liked working in the hospital, so I probably would’ve stuck with that. Then I worked with outpatients which was very light, people drive themselves to the clinic and do exercises and things like that, so I saw a good range of it. My first internship was at a brain and spinal cord injury long-term care place, and I really wasn’t into that one. One of them was a little too much for me. I interned at a bunch of different levels of it. My favourite was working at a hospital in the inpatient department, which is like giving people therapy soon after surgery, or a few days after.

Just on the note of your studies, you studied physical therapy and interned at a hospital while you were starting producing – what were your aspirations for that career path?

That’s when it kinda hit me, like “woah I can really do this.” So it was about five years ago when I became full time music. They reached out and gave me a pretty good amount of money for the time for licensing a bunch of beats to play on their commercials. One of the big things was I’d gotten a bunch of music licensed on TV, for Adult Swim, the cartoon channel. The music started taking off at the same time I was graduating so I just figured, “let me just see how far I can take it, and if it works out, it works out, and if not I’ll go look for a job.” It ended up working out so I never ended up getting a job for what I went to school for and just kept going with it. I never really thought it would be realistic, things kind of starting taking off own their own after I had gone through school.

A few years ago you said that making music was just a hobby to you, what made you want to make it into a career? Past work, his creative process, and control of his sound – he had plenty to say on it all.įive years in the making, it’s surreal that your debut album is finally here. With his long awaited debut album 32 Levels releasing today, we got the chance to chat with him just as his career kicks into the next gear. New Jersey based producer Clams Casino has for over five years existed in two different realms of the music world – insane popularity among hip-hop heads, and insane popularity in the mainstream for his work with artists like A$AP Rocky and Mac Miller – although though the name itself has remained largely unknown. Today, we’re granted something very good after a long time waiting. They say that good things come to those that wait.

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