Justin Vernon is one of the collaborators Kanye will always go to. He doesn't fit in with any genres - you never know if he's gonna sing, like, the Bee Gees or some crazy, distorted thing. And you don't know what he's saying half the time. He's kind of like Michael McDonald, like he's got marbles in his mouth.

Mike Dean

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No disrespect to people that don't use music theory or don't know it. It does help to be able to figure out what key a song is in, even though with your scales you can figure it out so you can set your Auto-Tune right. So many songs with Auto-Tune are off or have the wrong note playing on the 808. And they pass it off as being hood.

Mike Dean
you music song people

I'm not a gangster. I'm a musician.

Mike Dean
gangster musician

I play the sax, piano, guitar, bass... I started as a kid with piano lessons.

Mike Dean
kid piano guitar play

If I hear music that has a hole in it and has a space for me to fit in, I go for that stuff.

Mike Dean
go me music space

I used to play in biker bars, different places like that.

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places like different play

Major labels don't play with samples not being cleared.

Mike Dean
being major labels play

Willie D is one of the first people I worked with.

Mike Dean
willie worked first people

I've always been fascinated with sound, since I was a little kid when my mother Dorothy Dean took me to my first piano lesson. Later on, my guitar, bass guitar, and synthesizer were my secret weapons.

Mike Dean
me guitar mother sound

Moog embodies a sound luxury like no other.

Mike Dean
other like luxury sound

My taste for rappers is very high. I've only worked with, like, Pac and Jay-Z and Scarface.

Mike Dean
high only like taste

I worked with Pimp C since he was 14 years old, and he was one of my best friends.

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old best friends years

That's just what I call myself when I DJ: Mexican Wrestling Association.

Mike Dean
dj just myself wrestling

'Black Skinhead' almost got deaded because it was too much like a soccer song.

Mike Dean
like black too-much song

For 'Twisted Fantasy,' I probably spent 180 days in the studio.

Mike Dean
days studio fantasy twisted

I raced motocross; I raced for Suzuki when I was a kid.

Mike Dean
kid

I grew up on a bayou. The small town that I lived in was, like, 10 miles from me. I grew up in the middle of nowhere.

Mike Dean
small like me small-town

I was a Dow Chemical baby. My dad designed chemical plants for Dow Chemical.

Mike Dean
chemical plants dad baby

Music and motorcycles was my thing when I was a kid.

Mike Dean
motorcycles thing kid music

It's great to watch people come up and help mold their careers. I really took it literal when Kanye said, 'Listen to the kids, bruh.' That really means something.

Mike Dean
listen help great people

I try to keep track of what the kids are doing on Soundcloud, and all the new guys coming up.

Mike Dean
coming new doing try