Last night he amazed you with his freestyles, today he show’s you his versatile range from Weezer covers to acoustic autotune tracks.  I talked to Michael about two of the more unique tracks on the album, “Say It Ain’t So” and “Acoustic Soulmate.”  This is what he had to say about our the two:
I met Clinton Switzer in Westchester one summer and he was saying how he plays guitar and I usually only freestyle but I asked the studio if he could come in for a track.  My producers (The Astronauts) were pumped about it so they took a bunch of his guitar pieces and rearranged the order and leveled everything and came out with this track.  A week later I came in and I went over it and that was that and we tied everything together
Download Say It Ain’t So (ft. Clinton Switzer)
With “Acoustic Soulmate” I wanted to experiment will all kinds of music – even messing around with autotune. Â This was back when autotune was just coming in, and I’m always trying to touch every branch of music so I told my guy I needed something very “T-Painish.” We were messing around with the autotune and he threw it on in his studio and the whole song just got built from there
This next song reminds me a lot of Drake’s early songs, the slow and steady beat and the vocals sound like something off of an oldschool Aubrey Graham album
This head-nodding beat will have you hooked instantly. Â Another slow, yet hard-hitting bass line with the same simplistic lyrical superiority as “Fall For Your Type”
Read the full interview after the jump, and check out Michael on our Featured Artists Page!
Do you have any sort of musical background?
My whole family has always been into music, I was just like that next generation, and I started writing rhymes cause my older cousins would do it. When I was in high school it died down a little because I got really into sports but once I got to college it came back. We would go to keggers and stuff and I would just freestyle with my boys (shoutout to Dave and Mike) and those two and my roommate Mickey kept telling me to get into it. So here I am.
What Kind of music did you grow up listening to?
I started listening to a lot of rap and hip-hop when I was real young. Then I started moving towards R&B but Kanye West was what made the transition form being the dude who just writes down feelings to actually putting songs together. I also got really into the artist Adele, where I did my cover of chasing pavements. I think she’s really wild, shes got some crazy music and I was listening to chasing pavements and I just wanted to create some art over it.
Do you have a lot of help on your production?
The Astronauts based in Philly and Oz (who goes by The Wizard of Oz) are my guys, they’re pretty crazy.  Also gotta give a shoutout to Ryan Mckenna and illDialect because their company is pretty much what brought me up as an artist with their connects with The Astronauts and the studio.
How was it performing with Chiddy Bang and Sam Adams at Club 27 in Philly?
That was a good show, great time to meet them especially Xaphoon.  He actually gave me some advice when I was coming up and at the same I got to watch them blow up.
What is it like trying to juggle school and music?
Oh my goodness, the hardest thing about music is doing school stuff you know I’m doing music projects that I’m putting my whole heart into and going back to school projects after that is just tough. Hopefully we’ll make some moves with music and just keep sailing though…
Is this something you are planning on doing for a living?
Music is pretty much where all my eggs are right now
Do you have any favorite artists or influences?
Favorite artists would be Kanye West, Adele, Craig David, Chiddy bang of course, and pretty much everything it would take all day to list
Coolest experience in the music industry?
I came up listening to all kinds of everything and rap music in particular philly rap, and one time I walked into the studio and saw Freeway – one of the guys I was listening to growing up playing basketball and just kinda realized that this is the real deal now.
Have you been working on anything new recently?
The week of November 15 Monday, Wednesday, and  Friday I have three songs coming out one on each day and a mixtape for early 2011 and the EP by summertime.
Favorite Drink?
Edub cause its nice and chill, but if I’m in the party mood you gotta roll with a couple girls and some Grey Goose and Patrón on the town—you gotta do it for the girls
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