Unlike your average rapper, Mouallem earned the money to produce his album from freelance work by writing a book about… cats. “Amazing cats,” he corrected. The kind that save people from burning houses, learn to play the piano, and finance groundbreaking hip-hop records.
Despite the high quality of the music he produces, Mouallem claims he is not musically talented. “I’m totally tone deaf,” he said. “I couldn’t produce a beat if my life depended on it. If someone walked in here with a gun and was like, ‘You! Make me a beat!’, I’d say, ‘Well, I’ve lived a good life.’” CONTINUE READING >>
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September 28, 2008 at 8:40 pm |
Omar, I’m so proud of you. Not everyone can write a book about cats and end up being compared to Bob Dylan. Keep up the good work.
(I have you on my RSS feed reader by the way… so just imagine me creepily watching you when you make these posts, because I am…)