00:00I've been surrounded by music and I've always been drawn to instrumentals
00:07because my mom would always play music, my grandma would always be playing music.
00:11I was just hearing it everywhere but it was always like I can never focus on the
00:15words and it was always the instrumental for me and when I got a keyboard all
00:19that kind of just came together and I started like creating my own like
00:23melodies and stuff like that. So the Battle of the Beatmakers, the first time
00:27I was in there I was about 14. It was really nerve-wracking. I went with my mom
00:32both times but the first time I like literally had like I'm like a nervous
00:37breakdown. I was like I need to leave like I can't do this anymore. This was
00:41like after I won the first round. I've always been in my bedroom and I was a
00:45really quiet kid and I spent all my time like just making music so having to like
00:51play the music that I've just been alone making in front of a whole bunch of
00:55people was just a lot for me. I was like crying with my mom and then she looked
00:59at me and she's like like I this is what you want you know like if this is not
01:03what you want then we can leave but this is exactly what you wanted so you should
01:08go back in there. So I did and then I didn't win that time around but I won a
01:13second time and then I won that time and I was the youngest at the time to win so
01:19I was 15. I met Boy Wonder at the Battle of the Beatmakers. We kind of kept in
01:24contact from there. So I asked Boy Wonder to be my mentor at that time and that's
01:28kind of how like our relationship grew a lot. He also like just gave me really
01:33good advice like especially with certain people that I would work with. He was
01:37like the first person to tell me not to put too much into my music because I
01:40would kind of like especially because of the beat battle culture I would add like
01:43a whole lot of just different sounds and not care too much for the artists so
01:49he's the first person that really made me think about the artists first. Our
01:53relationship is still incredible right now. I can call him anytime and ask him
02:01for anything at any point so he's just like an amazing person.
02:08I founded Wonder Child in 2020. I was like working with a lot of producers for
02:15a while like because I was just kind of like following Boy Wonder's model he
02:19would just constantly be helping a bunch of producers and I'd see he'd be
02:23signing as his producers he started his own like publishing company and all that
02:27stuff so that really inspired me. So I would have producers that you know
02:32didn't have any placements or whatever around me in general and I'd find them
02:37opportunities and all that. I signed my first producer in 20 I think was 2015
02:42and it inspired me to like start signing producers again because I really enjoyed
02:47working with them I really wanted to just see them grow into something as
02:52producers. COVID hit and obviously there was a lot of time to think and I was
02:57just like yeah I kind of want to start actually turning this into a thing and
03:02build a brand. I've always just wanted to like change the way music sounds in
03:07general and I feel like one of the ways of doing that is like controlling the
03:12producers that are coming into the industry as well. I just want to help
03:15them like come in and change the way that music sounds in general. I love like
03:21just helping like and just guiding people through that and and and seeing
03:26them become the producer or whatever it is like whatever they want to be just
03:30achieving those goals. Anytime any of my producers get placements I'm just like
03:34yes you know so it's yeah it's been dope. I met Ebony the first time through her
03:44cousin named Matt. One day he just said like hey you should come to the studio
03:47because he knew I made beats and I met Ebony and I played her my beats. She
03:53didn't like it at first but things happen you know and you know I just hope
03:59for the best. Kept in contact and ever since yeah we've just been working with
04:04each other ever since yeah. Being a part of One The Child is like being a part of
04:07a family. In the music industry you kind of get lost in like different groups and
04:10you know hang around the wrong crowds or I feel like me just being a One The
04:15Child definitely helped me in terms of like you know helping me be humble and
04:19yeah stay grounded. I produced for like Bad Bunny, Summer Walker, SZA, Don
04:25Tolliver, Lil Uzi. I won a Grammy for Bad Bunny's album and yeah it was it was a
04:33blessing. So Ebony Systems is just basically a company that I'm starting.
04:41I've always wanted to create tools that can like just simplify the process for
04:47certain people and kind of help them understand what sounds I'm putting
04:52together and how I do it. Putting that all the things that I use in one little
04:56thing would just make everyone's life easier so. So effects plug-in is like
05:01something that you would put in the mixer like a delay or something or a
05:04reverb. Effects plug-in is not something you play it's just you add it onto
05:08sounds to make them have effects. A VST is more of like a virtual instrument
05:14usually a VST would be like a piano that's in the program or drum
05:19synthesizer in the actual program and you're using it on your MIDI controller.
05:23Ebony Systems is I feel like our way of really consolidating a really simple
05:30workflow that has worked for Wonder Girl into a now product that is open for
05:36the world. I think that at her level she's developed such a level of
05:41experience that now she's able to understand exactly what a producer needs
05:46and it's just a really simple way to get the sound for you. Hardware has been a
05:52really big dream for us and I think that to just develop everything Ebony wants
05:57to develop is our dream. Like if it's going to be a speaker set or if it's
06:01going to be a portable speaker if it's going to be headphones if it's going to
06:03be any type of equipment or technology and we can create it how we want to
06:08create it that's the dream.
06:11I think business and art often clash in many ways and sometimes you want to
06:19maintain that purity of just creating and being creative but balancing it with
06:24launching a business that's sustainable that can grow that can evolve so I think
06:28pairing those two and Ebony is very passionate and she really cares about
06:32the music and the artists that she works with and the producers that she works
06:36with so it's kind of creating an environment where that can thrive but
06:39the business can also grow. I wouldn't say I'm like the most especially before
06:43the most business forward person I was like all creatives so it's made me
06:49have to like focus on business learn everything about the business I actually
06:54have. Hearing how she talks about the producers that have come up under her
06:59and the artists and that passion so it's not necessarily based on like accolades
07:03but the moments that I'm really proud to be working with there is when she speaks
07:06and I can tell how passionate is how passionate she is about the work that
07:10we're doing. So one of the things that stand out with Ebony is her range of
07:14sound and her to kind of go to the future and go back in time be present
07:23it's always amazing because sound is you know like the creation of it is is is so
07:32random at times but that's the best part because every day every summer there's a
07:38new sound there's a new vibe. She literally will go in and just like it's
07:42she's like dissecting a whole entire like beat. She'll like go in and just you
07:47know take out one sound and then put it on the next you know the end of the beat
07:50or just you know take a chop and then you know kind of reverse it and just do
07:55certain things that very like unorthodox ways of doing it compared to other
07:58producers but that's what really makes her stand out to a lot of producers here.
08:02There's a lot of songs I listen to and I'm like who produced this and I'm like
08:05of course Ebony did but I'd have no idea like when I first play the song and it's
08:10happened a few times. The authenticity to her sound and how you can be in any
08:15place you could be in a club you could be in a bar you could be in an airplane
08:19and you hear a Wonder Girl beat come on you know it's Wonder Girl.
08:26I didn't become a producer to be famous at all you know when I was really young
08:30it was like the the fame the just people knowing my name was like very tough for
08:36me just a whole bunch of people like looking up to me now and just knowing my
08:41name and seeing me in places and being like a Wonder Girl like it was kind of
08:44just like a lot for me and doing interviews was a lot for me as well like
08:48just that type of attention you know I just grew into it you know and it's it's
08:52it's cool now like I'm fine with people coming up to me and whatever it is like
08:58I actually kind of enjoy it and I appreciate it.
09:00Working with Ebony in a creative sense and just in general what I love about
09:04working with her is that she's incredibly optimistic I think that
09:08there's no there's no limits on what we want to create and there's there's no
09:14pessimism in terms of like we don't have enough tools to create it it's like any
09:19type of utility or any person that we need to get to or any type of any type
09:22of resource that we'll ever need to create a product in mind we have.
09:27It just comes down to how much Ebony cares she really cares about the music she cares
09:31about the artists she cares about the producers and you can see how that
09:35affects the way we do business and the things that we prioritize and the things
09:38that we care about.
09:39In the next five years for Wonder Child the record label I hope to find a great
09:44home for it and definitely like blow up a few artists keep signing more
09:49producers keep helping keep building the brand as well and turning it into more
09:54than what it is and something that people can really feel and connect to.
09:58For Ebony Systems I just want to have just a bunch of products I want people
10:02to be actually using it in their workflow I want to see it in everyone's
10:06mixers you know and then eventually have the hardware, speaker, computers,
10:13synthesizers whatever it is because the possibilities are endless so hopefully
10:18we'll see that in the next five years.
10:27you
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