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illRoots.com: First off I wanted to thank you for sitting down with us.
OU: Thank you for having me.
illRoots.com how did you get the name Outasight?
OU: I was living in lower eastside Manhattan and I moved back home to Yonkers where I'm from and I was going by the monikker Outsite, some really corner ass name. I came back and they were like your Outasight and I've really been running with it ever since.
illRoots.com: Whats the track that you feel is going to make the most impact?
OU: Its hard to get a good read, I've been so obsessed with music that I'm not really worrying. I know the song "Radio Radio" is going to be dope. There is alot of different sounds and its kind of eclectic so I think there is a little something for everybody. We flipped the Pharcyde "Runnin" beat he redid the sample in a completely different way. Just paying a little homage I guess.
illRoots.com: With the more global it gets the more local it gets I think Hip Hop is getting better. So with all your new music where do you see yourself fitting in the mold if you will?
OU: Well, I'm just trying to be as vast as possible and hit as much audience as possible. I don't ever want to be cornered into be just straight Hip-Hop you know? Its just something that everybody can get down to. Hip-Hop is the main vehicle but for me I respect everything yet I take my own way of doing things.
illRoots.com: After I get done listening to your new project what is the first thing you want me to do?
OU: I want you to put that shit on the ipod and play accordingly.
illRoots.com: One song to summarize your life?
OU: That's the Life by Frank Sinatra, I love that song even though Sinatra was such a classy guy that song was such a fuck you kind of song. Its just something about that song growing up I would get like rebel attitude type feeling. It also tells how he's been on all sides of the fence.
illRoots.com: One Person that you would want to work with that isn't necessarily hip-hop?
OU: This might sound a little cliche but I would love to a song with D'Angelo because he has one of those albums that I would listen to ten years later. But thats still Hip-Hop but lets say me and Billy Joel like a record like 1979. Classic New York City Shit and I was in this restaurant and they had his anthology on and I was paying attention to it. I never been a really big Billy Joel fan but I would love to go back in time and have him play the piano and maybe me rocking over the beat.
illRoots.com: One label you would sign to from any time period?
OU: I would have to say like Rawkus Records in like 99. That movement was going on when I was a teenager and at the time me and my friends were really into it. Alot of those artists inspired me but my generations that I really looked up.
illRoots.com: Who is the most underrated producer to me?
OU: I don't know who do you think?
illRoots.com: I'm going to have to go with Marley Marl, because he created the Juice Crew movement that music was all him and he rarely gets credit.
OU: See I was going to say Premo because where he gets credit from Hip-Hop other genres really haven't given him the just dues. If you really want to have a hot ass hip-hop album you need one Premo track. When I heard Nas wasn't going to work with Premo on his new album I was like Damnit.
illRoots.com: Who do you think you inspire?
OU: Hopefully everyone that comes across my music, I don't think I'm at the point where I influence alot of people. Yet I am probably just influencing the daily listener in a positive manner so maybe just to provide a pick-me-up. I mean I'm a positive person, so therefore it reflects in the sound.
illRoots.com:Independent or Major?
OU: As long as the people share the same vision I can't see why there is a difference as long as I get some kind of push on what I'm building upon. The team is what makes the difference.
illRoots.com: So Outasights equation?
OU: Positive Vibes + Melodic Singing x ill rapping + flawless style = Outasight and Hit records...booom there you go.
illRoots.com: Thanks Kayrie for making this happen as well look out for more work from Outasight and his whole movement.
