Today we’d like to introduce you to Mvjor MvMix.
Mvjor, please kick things off for us by telling us about yourself and your journey so far.
I’ve been around music since a kid. My dad (Rest In Peace), was a DJ that was into the HOUSE MUSIC scene and he used to always be practicing in the small basement we lived in. He would take me faithfully to the record stores every week sometimes twice a week where he would load up on new music and play them thru out the week to find better music to make new mixes with. This was around the age 5-11, I’m not going to lie, not just because he was my dad, but he was really good at what he did. Even though he didn’t get the fame every person wishes for, he definitely was talented. I never took that from him.
As I got older, I got into sports and being competitive with my cousins. I kinda forgot about music for a little bit. I still never got my hands on creating music or anything, I was just around it and loved every bit of it. I loved singing, dancing, drums, pianos everything. I think the love came from being in church and watching the choir do their worship services. My parents were big into church as a kid. Shortly changed, but yeah, that’s where I started.
I used to remember when cell phones started becoming really popular and I had a razor, I used to talk to all the lil girls in my school and talk about it with my cousin that I used to play baseball with and we would just play sports and talk about females, ALL THE TIME. I remember running up the bill so many times and my dad beating my ass.
Me and my cousin Charlie (Rest In Peace) used to find slow ass songs to tell these girls to play and make a playlist for them and all types of goofy things to flirt, thinking we were Hitch.
Unintentionally, I was gaining a lot of my influences listening to J Holiday, R Kelly, and many more RNB singers.
I also was a huge Eminem fan but that actually came from my dad one time telling me not to listen to them but had bought the album and said fuck it, but don’t tell mom. Lol, Eminem from that day, in the car, changed my life but yea back to the story.
This movie by the name of “Hustle and Flow” came out. At this point in time, I fell in love with seeing the process of people creating music. My dad actually at the time was already getting into music production because some of the DJs he would spin with were producing as well.
So, the night after, I watched hustle and flow I think I bugged my dad so much to teach me how to use his equipment to make music. I’ll never forget that day. That’s the day my life literally found purpose and I made my first beat that sounded like Elmo’s juke beat. It was so bad, it sucked, it was horrible… but I made it. And I spent a week just learning how to bounce the song to the right type of file to be able to burn it on a cd. I took it to school and played it to my other classmates at school.
Everybody said I sucked, the amount of shade was enough to cover Russia.
But I loved it. I made at least two beats a day.
Now, back to me hearing Eminem. Not long after starting to wrap my head around beats, but my dad plays Eminem’s project infinite. From that point forward, I became obsessed with words and rap. Not so much poetry yet, but slowly I got into that. So now, I began to rap and make beats.
To move along, I was playing sports and messing around with music as a secondary option. My dad actually used to drill me so hard on sports, baseball the most but I would rarely be able to dive into the music how I could’ve because he was so fixed that I had to practice every day and become a baseball player and get scholarships. This is actually where I and my dad really fell out with each other for the decisions he made and always taking his anger out on me. He used to make me feel like a disappointment because I would strike out or not hit a home run or get called out for stealing a base, it was really bad. I know as I grew older, he really regretted his choices but that’s another story.
As I got into high school, I was fixing more into music and less into sports even though I would fake act like I was into sports, playing varsity baseball.
I wasn’t that good of a student because when I was in school, I would write rhymes and go home and make beats and record the songs. Edit the music all night and play it the next day, all day on repeat. It was hard to balance all the work I was doing, lol.
But music was more important than ACTs and all that.
When I graduated school and stopped playing sports, I took music to a new level by actually releasing music and creating a YouTube channel and Facebook. I always was big on promoting myself and always making new fans and trying to get people who never heard of me to hear me.
Shortly after, me developing a big buzz, I started to get a couple of artists who wanted to work under me and I created a team of artists. I would record all their music and help them develop their sounds and make sure they got better as artists and put out quality music.
I started making my motto “Chicago’s hottest producer, dmajor” that was the tag before my beats, lol, it was so cheesy, but it stemmed from being able to help artists become better and I felt I was the best for that.
I got so much heat from people for that tag it was crazy, lol, but it helped my name spread fast. As I got older, bills began to pile up and being broke trying to make music on Facebook wasn’t as cool as it once was. I started using my talents to make money by selling my beats and recording people with my home studio equipment, making little petty money to keep my parents off my back.
Slowly, I landed a gig at a studio and started working hourly studio time. I would probably book only like three-four sessions a month and barely made any money, but I started being in the studio EVERYDAY and posted my everyday life on social media.
This is where I started living my purpose.
Over time, I didn’t notice that I was building a snowball affect by always keeping myself in a studio and producing for people that it started building my clientele and fan base.
I then became a full time producer at several studios until my last studio where I became wrapped up in drugs and partying from making so much money but not being a stable person and getting caught up from the artists around me. I drank, popped pills, sipped lean, all type of stuff. It really had a toll on my music and helped it I’m not going to lie. I would do it everyday through out the day just vibing making music.
Then, I met a woman that changed my life. My girl got pregnant and I couldn’t do drugs and party no more. I had a kid on the way and I had nine months to either create a business or get a job.
The studio I was renting out at the time was where I through patty’s all the time. The building managers were getting tired of me and seeing me be reckless on cameras and let a lot of bad stuff go on. But then, they got the last straw, one of the clients I record dropped 300 xans in the hallway while shooting a video and the same day, somebody shot themselves in the studio.
Next day, I got kicked out.
My son had three months till he was born…
I had no studio… a safe with a little bit of money and lived in my parents basement with my pregnant girl.
I then found an opening unit at 35th st studios. I used the last money I had for two months rent and some studio equipment. I was FLAT BROKE.
But I had a chance to become a producer and live my dream and start a business and I had 30 days to prove it and not to party and work EVERYDAY.
I then booked someone everyday and never stopped. I got so busy that I opened up a second studio. I now own a company called “MvMix.” I’m in Chicago, Illinois that runs 24/7 helping artists becoming better everyday. Not only are we a studio but we really engage in the careers of our clients.
I now have three producers who work for me to help the work load.
I’ve learned that becoming big isn’t working with big names… it comes from doing big things. And I gave Chicago a platform to become great artists and put out good content to get them heard by the right people.
I wish their was an MVMIX when I was a kid playing baseball or sum. It’d be easier to live my dream at the time.
There is so much more juicier moments in my story, but I tried to keep it quick and to the point.
Can you give our readers some background on your art?
I produce, engineer and make music. I started a company called MvMix where we help people who have a dream to become artists make them become reality. We help develop the sound of those who aren’t sure which direction they want to go as a musician.
My motto is: “Become a better you.” and with MVMIX that’s possible.
What’s the best way for someone to check out your work and provide support?
They can YouTube “MvMix” or “Mvjor” or look us up on Instagram @MvMixOfficial @MvjorsUp.
Contact Info:
- Phone: 3128104703
- Email: mvmix.llc@gmail.com
- Instagram: @MvjorsUp @MvMixOfficial
- Twitter: @MvjorsUp
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