Amerigo Gazaway spoke to The Real Hip-Hop about how he got into creating mashups, what goes into his creative process, and his Common x Stevie Wonder collaboration, A Common Wonder.
TRHH: Have you tried to mashup two artists or groups that didn’t go together?
Amerigo Gazaway: Yeah. I’ve definitely run into some road blocks creatively. Sometimes I can get one or two songs to work, but trying to put together a whole album becomes more and more difficult. You really never know, but you also have to give yourself time to marinate and let the project evolve. Make a track, sleep on it, live with it a little while, go back to it, and take a break. I did that with A Common Wonder several times. I had to take a break from it, step away, and come back to it with a new perspective and then I was able to complete some of those songs that I was stuck on. I try not to give up on the ideas. If I get stuck I just move on to the next thing. I can always come back to it. I’m always working on several different things at once.
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