GREEZY DUB
Greezy Dub is a zambian music producer who is currently based in South Africa. He produces a variety of music from Hip hop to electo-house.
KAPA187: Welcome to the interview ,first off , who is Greezy Dub , where did you get that name?
Greezy Dub : My real name is Duke Langa, im a 22 year old multi-talented, creative indivisual. Very laid back, easy to talk to, smart and open minded. I spent a lot of time outside of Zambia, grew up in the USA in a small town called Nashua in the state of New Hamphire from the age of 4 to 15. I finished my high school at roads park in 2005 and in 2007 went to CPUT (Cape Peninsula University of Technology) in Capetown, South Aftica and completed a National Diploma in Electrical Engineering in 2010. The “Greezy Dub” name came about in a funny way there’s no specific meaning but this is the story. Back in my highschool days around 2005 a year after I started producing I met another beat-maker by the name of Sam Aka grizzle, who grew up in the UK. We heard each other’s stuff and he liked my drums and I liked his strings. I used to go by Dubeous Duke so I put grizzle & dubious together to create GreezyDub , cause we had a disticntive sound so the name just stuck with me.
KAPA187: Interesting story ,so tell me , How did you get started in music production?
Greezy Dub : Well I have always had a passion for music since I was really young like 5 years old I would dress up like micheal Jackson and dance like him and my dad had alot of old records and CD collections so I was always around music. I started formally making music In 2004 at the age of 16. A friend of mine by the name of Chobela Aka Chobz told me he has this music making software called fruity loops 3.5. I asked him to bring me the CD cause he knew I had a general interest in music cause we would exchange music all the time. I took it home and had no idea how to use it but after hours and weeks of playing around with it I made my first beat. It was the wackest beat ever but I was going crazy calling all my cousins and friends to listen to it.
KAPA187: So, when producing your music do you use real instruments or software like fruityloops and the like? Are there any advantages of using real instruments over software.
Greezy Dub : I use software, right now I’m using fruity loops 9. I’ve never made beats from live instruments, though I play all my notes via the key-board. I barely sample anything so most of the time it’s my creation.
KAPA187: How long have you been producing and who are your inspirations locally and internationally.
Greezy Dub : This is my 7th year producing. Most of the people that inspire me are international seeing that I spent most of my life outside of Africa. In terms of artist I’m inspired by Michael Jackson, Notorious BIG, in terms of producers Dr.Dre, Timabaland, The Neptunes, Swizz beatz, Kanye West, Danja Handz, Polow Da Don, Scott storch, just blaze & the runners just to name a few.
KAPA187: Who have u produced for so far .
Greezy Dub : I have produced with a lot of people world-wide. Some just did a verse on my songs others did a chorus, some I’ve done EP’s for, others mixtapes. A good number of them are currently working on some stuff with me. Some of the people ive worked with are :
Zambia – Inferior (rapper), Nick Pro (rapper), Klappa Haze (rapper), Sepo (rnb singer), Kasper (rapper), Kunda (rapper),Marvel Kasa(rapper), young N9ne (female rapper), Crisis (rapper)
Zimbabwe– Kapital K (rapper), Akilli (Rapper), Ray Chee (rnb singer), Larissa (Rnb singer), PS (Rapper).
South Africa- Dazz (rapper), Shonisani (house singer), Cyer (Rnb Singer), Caddy (Rapper), Basiq (rapper), Xola x (rapper), qualize (rapper)
Malawi- Eminent (rapper).
UK- Kemar Young (rapper), Trozion (rapper), Boney Black (rapper), Micheal waddy (rapper), Monique stylez (rnb singer), fuzzie bars (female rapper),
Italy Luca Barbieri (pop singer)
USA- Chronic (rapper), Sullee J (rapper), melo (rapper), J Focus (rapper), Joe n Joe (rnb
singers),
KAPA187: Wow ,that’s a lot of people , what genre of music do you specialize in.
Greezy Dub :Well I’m mainly hiphop & R&B based but I also produce pop, electo-pop, electro, dance, dubstep & electro-house.
KAPA187: What is distinctive about your production
Greezy Dub :Well I got a lot of influence seeing that I’ve lived in many countries an that’s potrayed in my sound. I like using weird sounds that people wouldn’t expect to here on a beat. Like alot of electro sounds and I’m a drum & percussion guy so the majority of mystuff has hard hitting drums.
KAPA187: Name one local and one international artist you would like to work with in the future , and give a reason.
Greezy Dub : I recently linked up with crisis in the beginning of the year and left him like 40 beats he’s defiantly one the people I would like to work with locally and internationally I would like to work with Lil Wayne I just think he’s one of the most talented and creative musicians out there would love to here him on my sound.
KAPA187: Working with Lil wayne would be incredible , What has been your biggest achievement so far?
Greezy Dub :My biggest achievement as of yet is making the NO BORDERS track. It’s an idea that I had were I would get different artist from all over the globe to feature on 1 hot beat. So I posted up on facebook to artist that I have linked up with via the net and others which I didnt know to find out if they were interested in making some history. I told all the peeps that were interested to feature to inbox me there email address so I can send them the beat which I called bouncy means. I expected like 5 replies but luckily over 20 pepo replied. At the end of it all I asked for a minimum of an8 bar verse and I picked the best verse which included 14 rappers and 2 singers from about 7 different contries including USA, UK, SA. Zambia, Zimbabwe, Russia, Canada, botswanna.. The song got over 700 downloads up to date. So it was pretty cool achievement
KAPA187: Do you adjust your production techniques to suit each individual artist? Can you give us a specific example?
Greezy Dub : Yeah most definatly man. I can easily adjust to most genres of music and I love experimenting. A good example is the un-expected color track I did for Shonisani from South Africa. It’s an electro house track that you can check out on my soundcloud I really went out my realm on that one seeing that I’m hiphop/rnb based.
KAPA187: Its good to be diverse . What can we expect from Greezy Dub in the future?
Greezy Dub :You can expect a whole lot of new music from Greezy Dub. I’m currently under a management company by the name of AMEG (ask media entertainment Group) based in the UK so they are getting me a lot of placement with upcoming artist from there. I am also doing some in-house producing for a label in the USA by the name of ZMG (Zimmerman Music Group) so I got a lot of stuff coming out with artists under their label. Locally I will be doing stuff with Zone Fam
diamond Chain and So Good.
KAPA187: Where can your fans listen to your music ?
Greezy Dub: facebook.com/GreezyDubmusic , my soundcloud ,reverbnation and Youtube pages.
THE MUSIC
ROCK TO IT
Has a nice Hiphop / dance feel to it. It is a definite club banger . I like how the beat changes up towards the end of the track.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jevUJAWfWGI
NO BORDERS
This track features 14 rappers and 2 singers from 6 different countries .It has an electronic /futuristic feel to it. It is a bit long , at 10min , but is definitely enjoyable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cGY8hMRtZo
BY KAPA187
Sorry son i have never heard of any of those musicians you produce.Good luck though
Were are those all zed musicians we have never head of apart from Crisis, Klappa Haze & Nick pro?
In fact Klappa Haze & Nick pro I just listen from them in Crisis’s songs the rest have also not listened to any.
I do most of my production outside of Zambia. and most of the artist im working with are upcoming artist.
hope that answers your question. thanks for reading the article.
If he is 22 and been in this business for 7 years, that means he started producing at 15?????????
nice interview ,rock to it has a good beat. keep it up
Get a real job son!
There is no “real” job, who are you to say what a real job is? do you mean real job as doing something boring as **** to get money? he’s doing what he loves and is assuming the consequences. all that’s left to do for you is to shut up and admire.
Making zambia proud !! keep doing your thing , dont let the haters get to u
Thabk you all for showing support and thats right im turning 23 this year i started producing at the age of 16. :-)
Well done. Do your thing. Not familiar with FL as am more Logic/Pro Tools but I believe it’s widely used. Most producers start exploring their feel in their teens so nothing unusual about the age you started at. My first production was released when I was 17 by Teal records. I’m a long way from that now (age and experience) but have love for those in Zambia working towards improving the quality. Let’s build not destroy :)
Good work GreezyDub! I can say I have had the chance to go out and give some of the artists you mentioned above a listen and it’s all good that you keeping to what you love doing.
There’s nothing above us but just open Space, so why waste all that sitting in a corner office doing sh*t we don’t like, Do your music and let people hate if that’s what they are good at doing.
Please post more of your work so we can listen. also advice how I can purchase me some of those?
great interview! and your music’s lekker too!! keep it up mahn
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great interview and keep up your good works.i have heard some of your produced tracks and dem they are all sick.all the best and dnt give up. support all the way.
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