D12’s Mr. Porter’s 5 Best Gems From “The Cipher” Q&A: “‘Stunt 101,’ ‘P.I.M.P.’ – That Was Me Teaching Myself How To Play Piano” [Audio]

Written By Shawn Setaro

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[The multi-talented producer and rapper Denaun Porter, formerly of D12, recently sat down with hip-hop personality and SOHH Correspondent Shawn Setaro on his popular “The Cipher” podcast. Listen to the full interview and check out five gems Denaun dropped during the Q&A.]

On taking a big leap as a producer:

“‘Stunt 101,’ ‘P.I.M.P.,’ all of that stuff – that was me teaching myself how to play piano. That was the real jump for me. I was more intrigued by original music than I was taking older music and just sampling.”

On the Straight Outta Compton trailer he produced, which first aired at the Grammys:

“I flew home to watch it with my dad. He had had a stroke two or three weeks before that. And the song we used was a song that, when he first heard it, he told me I should give to Dre. It was a moment for me because I was sharing that moment with my dad.”

On playing by the rules:

“Some people are by the book. Once you play by the book, there’s no creativity besides what the book says. And that’s with singing, that’s with rapping, that’s with battling, that’s with production, that’s with anything. Once you play by the book, you’ve already set up a whole bunch of walls around you that tell you how to have to be creative.”

On his bad memory:

“I got shot when I was fifteen. It was pretty bad. I flatlined three times in the surgery. For some reason, I don’t have a good recollection of the past at all, not even being a kid. Some stories I tell repetitively, so I’m able to remember them. But I’m only good for, like, ten stories.”

On the courts’ response to recent police killings of black men and women:

“The justice system ain’t for us. It’s not here to help us. We’re here to apparently be target practice sometimes.”

To hear the whole interview, click here or listen below.

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