09/01/2021
Life's so strange. 10 years ago today I released my first "beat tape" on internet: 16 beats that I produced with my Akai MPC 2000 XL II between 2001 and 2003. I didn't have any idea of what was "LoFi Hip Hop" back then... I was just making beats for my friends or other MCs I would like to collaborate with 🌏🌎🌍
But according to some research I did in the last few years, "Lo-Fi Hip Hop" was born exactly in those years when I was making these beats alone in my small bed room by night, smoking a lot and trying to find my way to express my anger, my pain, my solitude, my frustration, my sadness, my melancholy...
My DEMONS 😈👿
I was totally in "The Matrix" and that's also why my friends started to call me "Nio" (or "Neo"). But this might be another story.
That full beat tape is on also on my mixcloud and on my website btw:
https://www.mixcloud.com/nio_zeroplastica/skeletons-vol1-beat-tape-2001-2003-ad/ (www.djnio.net)