And for a long time, people assumed that that didn't bleed into hip-hop and I understand why. And, you know, we're living in an era of songwriting where there's a lot of people involved in making records. Someone like Drake couldn't have existed 10 years ago in hip-hop, in a lot of ways. What I mean is, I think Drake in a lot of ways already, even before this, represents a new paradigm of rappers and musicians. I wasn't that surprised and I'm not saying that to knock Drake at all. What about Meek's purported revelations regarding Drake's songwriting? Were you surprised by that, or what did you make of it? Is he gonna do a freestyle? New verse? A cappella something? I don't know. People that are going to know his albums by heart and are curious to hear what he's gonna bring.
He's been on "The Pinkprint Tour," which is a good look for him business-wise, but at Fool's Gold Day Off he's going to be in front of a New York-Brooklyn, tastemaker, influencer audience. I just think that, the stage is his, you know what I mean? Because he hasn't really been doing shows since this whole thing happened in front of the type of audience that wants to hear what he has to say. I don't know Meek as well, but I'm appreciative of him that he accepted to do this show without really knowing me.
I'm not taking sides - I know Drake, I'm friends with Drake. I think Meek's album is one of the best hip-hop albums of this year. This was like a quick little thing, but because we live in the meme era, it was sort of blown into a bigger thing. People would go back and forth with records. Hip-hop beefs on wax used to last months and months, years even. In the scope of hip-hop, that wasn't even really a beef in my opinion. I'm not so interested in that beef, personally. What did you think of his come-back track against Drake? Meek Mill is headlining the New York date on Labor Day. And I think it comes from musical diversity. When people talk about cross-cultural millennials and all the silly buzzwords that get passed around in corporate decks or whatever, we have those kids. Day Off in a lot of ways is where people can experience that diversity first hand and see how it literally makes sense together. It's not the '90s where you had one group of kids who listened to Joy Division, and another group of kids who listened to KRS One and they didn't speak to each other. In a lot of ways, we've kind of come to realize that the Day Off events are one of the best representations of what Fool's Gold literally stands for. It's not full-on festival EDM, it's DJ Hoodboi or Milo & Otis, or Flosstradamus, or myself, whose version of electronic music will appeal to hip-hop fans as well. But it's like, we don't get the full-on EDM guys, we'll get people who make music that you might throw on at the crib or whatever. And then we'll throw in a bunch DJs because everyone's listening to electronic music now, too. But then we'll bridge that with rappers that we all grew up listening to as well: Kurupt, or The Lox, or DJ Quik in LA. We'll have Travis Scott, Vic Mensa, Action Bronson, Danny Brown. But we have the whole spectrum that I think is really what a generation of people are listening to now. There's a bunch of EDM festivals out there, obviously. We're the only festival that meshes hip-hop and electronic music like we do. What's the secret ingredient that makes the Day Off parties work?
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