
But the undertone is kinda like this: the only constant in your life is you. Cole and Kendrick Lamar, but when it comes to writing my own stuff I rather let my own words come out and then organise them so that the message I want to get across comes across.Īnd what message are you trying to get across? Lyrics are a way for me to self-reflect on what’s going on, a way for me to organise my thoughts. Like, you write an idea, or you keep it fresh in your mind, and you start to see it. Something that I notice is that as soon as you write something down, you start to see it very often in the real world. So his lyrics are cool.īut then it’s just me trying to figure out how I use words. When his intro came in, mine would come in, his chorus: my chorus. I took the structure, the arrangement, and replicated it. My song “Bobby Flay” was trying to replicate “Kobe with the Fro”. “Worst Day of My Life” or “Kobe with the Fro” are both chunes. How about as a lyricist? Or outside of music? He started on Youtube, now he’s collaborating with some of the bigger French artists - Ninho comes to mind, and he’s partnered with Red Bull. He makes tutorials and he’s got his own music, too. So him and this Youtube producer Simon Servida. He’s a rapper but he also mixes his own stuff. Who are your other influences as a producer?ĭefinitely Cal Scruby. Not rage in a club, but I would like that when people listen to my stuff, their head begins to nod. Stuff that makes you move your head back and forth. I would say that my style is ‘bouncy’, I like making bouncy stuff. But now I feel like I’m at the point where I want to branch out. I started by trying to replicate Cal Scruby. You start copying and you start realizing little things, like how they arrange their songs or how they manipulate samples.

I think it all starts as trying to replicate, then you branch off. Every artist has a distinct style, every producer has a sound. I’ve been trying to define that myself recently.


How would you define your production style?Īh, that’s a good one. Sepia spoke with Chef Porry about his experience of being an up-and-coming producer and an artist in the era of COVID. Fear”and the vacuum of loneliness and betrayal that comes with the end of a relationship.

His 2020 debut album It Was in Me All Along is a candid depiction of his interactions with “Mr. El Salvadorian-American rapper and producer Chef Porry creates bouncing melodies attached to lyrics that paint at intimate portrait of his emotional state.
