This conversation between John Morrison and King Britt has so many gems in it about teaching, teaching music, teaching Black electronic music, and more. But I love this last part the most and not just because they mention Dilla.

JM: Can you give me a final word about what you’ve learned about how Black folks engage with electronic music from teaching this course?

KB: For us, these are just tools to enhance what we already have in our existence, in our DNA, as far as rhythm. So if you want to talk about Dilla – the drum machine and samplers enhanced what he already had in him, right? The way he beat programs, not using quantification on everything, he’s putting his humanness in. All Black folks put their humanness into the electronic instrument. The tools propel what our sound is to a whole other level.