DJ Khalil

For the latest episode of Rhythm Roulette, we met up with DJ Khalil. Khalil is behind some major tracks for superstars like 50 Cent (“I’ll Still Kill”) and Eminem (“Survival”), plus he has a long list of Billboard Hot 100-charting singles. His full discography stretches back almost two decades through his deep roots in the LA hip hop underground, and he’s spent lots of time at to the console alongside Dr. Dre. And he’s still putting out heat. Recently, Khalil produced the A$AP Ferg banger “East Coast,” he has multiple credits on Joey Bada$$’ ‘All Amerikkkan Badass’ (one of 2017’s best albums so far), he did two tracks on Anderson.Paak’s breakout ‘Malibu.’ With that proven track record, we had to see what Khalil could do with the Rhythm Roulette challenge. At Artform Studios in Los Angeles, he picked out some darkside flower power with a Doors album, a Congregation record from the early ’70s and a soul selection from Charles Wright to balance it all out. Because Khalil frequently works with rock samples, it seems like dude got the perfect ingredients. Check out the full video above to hear the head banging instrumental that Khalil chopped up.

Exclusive in-depth interview with Grammy Winning/ MultiPlatinum selling producer who’s worked with Dr. Dre, Eminem, Jay Z, Drake, Aloe Blacc. Nas, Pink, Kendrick Lamar, Lecrae, The Clipse, Slaughterhouse, and his own group Self Scientific among others. In part 4 Khalil talks to Nick Huff Barili about being signed to Dr Dre’ Aftermath Entertainment and working his way up to produce for Eminem. Khalil shares the story of when he first went in the studio with Marshall and heard him rapping over his beats, the first song Eminem played for him was “Won’t Back Down”. Khalil ended up having four songs on Eminem’s Recovery album. Khalil also breaks down how he and his group The New Royales came up with the production for Eminem’s song Survival of Em’s Grammy winning album The Marshall Mathers LP 2, which was also featured on Call Of Duty Ghosts trailer and game.

Exclusive in-depth interview with Grammy Winning/ Multi Platinum selling producer who’s worked with Dr. Dre, Eminem, Jay Z, Drake, Nas, Pink, Kendrick Lamar, Lecrae, The Clipse, his own group Self Scientific and and most recently produced Aloe Blacc’s album Lift Your Spirit. In part 3 Khalil talks to Nick Huff Barili about a new cycle in music. “Music just changes. I feel like we went through a period where it was very electronic, very dark, very cold and very much the same. Everything was kinda cookie cutter, in my opinion. Electronic music kinda took over and that was it. I think ones you have that go on for such a long time, people want something new. That’s the cycle of music. I knew right in the middle of EDM, Funk is coming back. And look at it. Daft Punk comes back. Blurred Lines comes. Bruno Mars comes with Treasure. Those records feel good. I saw an interview with Pharrell and he was talking about there is no joy in music. I totally agree with that. I feel like now people are bringing back Joy in music.” Tune in this week for more with DJ Khalil and Young Guru.

Exclusive in-depth interview with Grammy Winning/ MultiPlatinum selling producers who’ve worked with Dr. Dre, Eminem, Jay Z, Drake, Nas, Pink, Kendrick Lamar, Lecrae, The Clipse, and most recently produced Aloe Blacc’s album Lift Your Spirit. In part 1 DJ Khalil and Pranam ‘Chin’ Injeti talk to Nick Huff Barili about how they built choir for Aloe Blacc ‘s anthem The Man. Tune in next week for more with DJ Khalil.

Exclusive in-depth interview with Grammy Winning/ MultiPlatinum selling producer DJ Khalil. Part 2 coming soon!