![Born I Music: [Interview Part One] Get Familiar. Afro Asian Electro Hop. neonsweb Born I Music: [Interview Part One] Get Familiar. Afro Asian Electro Hop.](http://www.hipsterwave.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/neonsweb.jpg)
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First thing’s first, we love exciting artists. Born is exciting to us. Venturing into new, refreshing and explosive areas of hip hop & electronica from the flows to the instrumentals. When we listen to Born I Music, it’s as though Tupac Shakur has passed and been reborn as “The Born Identity.”
We’re not all that spiritual, but Born I Music inspires us to get our meditation on more and to truly “meet ourselves.” We think that if you took Shakur, Ghostface, Kanye, Kid Cudi & The Clipse, put them in a blender and applied some of what Born’s production team (Godfather Sage, Imani Beats, & several others) calls “Afro-Asian Electro-Hop”, you’ve gotten a taste of what this man is doing.
On the heels of his latest release “THE BORN IDENTITY MIXTAPE” which you can download free here. We sat down with Born to learn about the man behind the music, his dad’s cooking and how Born manages to create bass-heavy, spine-tingling songs that just make you want to max out your car system and bob your head. Get Familiar.
Born I Music: You rang? Yo. What’s poppin’ G?
Hipsterwave: Not too much. I’ve actually been listening to your new album for like the past few hours non-stop. We also tweeted about it.
Born I Music: [laughs] Cool. Okay, no doubt. You caught it to the end?
Hipsterwave: Yup. Yeah, man.
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