Interview: IAMSU! Speaks with Noisey

Looks like Noisey is having IAMSU! perform in the NYC but before his performance they decided to interview the man! Peep the interview below.
Noisey: Hi IamSu! What are you doing?
IamSu!: I literally just woke up  

What did you do last night?
I had a show in Sacramento at Ace of Spades, and then I had to take my friend home hella late, so I didn't get home until six in the morning.  

When you come to New York next month, this going to be your first New York show?
Yeah, it is, I'm juiced up on it. I’m kind of nervous about how it will be received but I'm sure people are going to be cool with us. You’re playing with Problem, who you made Million Dollar Afro with. When you and he play live, how does that work? We come out and we do like two records from the tape, then we do “Function,” and then I cut out and he does some songs and then I do my songs, and then we close with like three or four songs that we’re both on, so it's kind of a back and forth thing.  

How are you so prolific?
Oh man, I don't know. Just God.

 Walk me through your process when you're making a song.
It's pure inspiration. I won't sit and think, “Oh, I need to make a song about this,” you know what I mean, it will hit me, the beat will hit me, and once the music starts moving I'll start thinking of a chorus.

 How do you feel the New York scene perceives West Coast rappers?
 I think a lot of people assume that we only make party music, and that we don't have any music other than stuff about being drunk and talking to girls and stuff like that, but there’s a lot more to us and that's what we're trying to show.  

There’s this one specific certain affect that you have used in your songs that pops up every once in a while. it's this high pitched woman's voice saying "hi" or something. What is that?
 Like, "hi…hi…hi"…something like that?  

Yeah. Why does that sound show up in everyone's production?
Well I'm not going to claim that I was the first person to use it, I might have been the person to popularize it, but I heard it on a Lil Jon song, "Who You Wit" and it was just like a random sound in the drum machine and I literally took the sound off of his song and sample it in my song. From there it just got hella popular and hella producers starred using it. It was in the “BMF” record from Lex Luger, 2 Chainz’s “I’m Different….”  

What do you think is so alluring about that sound?
I don't know what it is about that sound but people hear it and just hella intriguing and just makes them wanna dance. I don't know what it is.

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