Ike Turner
Ike Turner
Izear Luster "Ike" Turner, Jr.was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, arranger, talent scout, and record producer. An early pioneer of fifties rock and roll, he is most popularly known for his work in the 1960s and 1970s with his then-wife Tina Turner in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionR&B Singer
Date of Birth5 November 1931
CityClarksdale, MS
CountryUnited States of America
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Now as far as records today, like hip-hop and rap-house, whatever it is-the thing about it is, they make a lot of loops where they don't have to play about four bars or something ,and everything's just over and over and they just got to rap on top of it.
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I don't really cut records according to what's pop, what's R&B and what's country, or what. I just record what I feel, wherever I am, when you're like that.
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The basic tracks I originally cut on a computer at my house, and then I over-dubbed it live. But I got the feeling I wanted here on the computer.
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There's talent there, but it's like different from the old school where I came from.
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I'm going to win some Grammies this year.
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I'm really shopping for a record deal, and I haven't had a chance to go around to the record companies yet. So far I just pressed up a few of them.
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I've got a combination of the blues mixed with hip-hop-all in one sound. I'm going to make a real big change in music, man.
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I used to write songs so fast like this, like snapping my fingers. Some of them didn't even have a title, for I just did the song.
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Most times, people have some acts that they really like. I mean, I don't have any in particular that I admire. I admire them all, you know.
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A lot of people believe that the movie is the true story, that Tina did. I don't wanna debate on Ike & Tina, but I have to say this one thing... That movie was the biggest lie, and even Tina said that it's a lie. And she don't like the movie. But she started put gas on the fire by supporting it.
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Where's the talent at? There was a lot of people back in those days-Elmore James, Howlin' Wolfe-a lot of people in these days.
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When you think of blues, all you think about is crying guitar like B.B. King's guitar. You think about someone crying that their woman's gone. And how bad life is and all that. Why can't it be something happy with the blues? Why can't it have a hip-hop beat to which you can do the dances of today ?
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I put together one song, Bonnie Raitt put together a song. Ah, what's his name, the other guitar player? Gatemouth Brown! Yeah, he did a side on Joe Louis Walker.
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I didn't know anything about publishing companies. I didn't know anything about writers royalties, and they kept me green, you know.