Dibia$e came into Knocksville to drop a speaker-blowing beat set and talk about the beginnings of the LA Beat Scene, gangster rappers at his pop’s restaurant, and his love of loose drums.

On loose drums…

The imperfection could be a perfection sometimes.

On LA beat scene origins…

Sketchbook was pretty much the start of the beat scene from what I saw…it wasn’t super crowded or nothing, but you would catch cats like Flying Lotus, Ras G, Kutmah, Georgia, Exile, pretty much everybody.  I’d have a boombox outside, we’d have a roundtable of beats, I’d pass the boombox around and everybody would play what they made that week.

On early musical influences…

Pops had a restaurant back in the day and he had this jukebox and I’d spend the whole weekend scrolling through it picking songs.  Ray Parker, 80′s funk…and then Eazy E, NWA, Above the Law, they used to come in the restaurant and give him LPs [to put in the jukebox].

On technology…

I used to be kinda hating on software back in the day.  I was stuck on a PC, man I couldn’t even upload music on my Myspace page for a minute.  I used to have the homies do that.