Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins comes to Dubai. Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins talks R&B, Mohammad Assaf, and his work on the new Michael Jackson album.
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00:00His voice is amazing, his voice is amazing, for me I don't like to get too, I don't like
00:18to, when I work with artists I don't like to listen to their songs too much, cause then
00:22I can't imagine what I can do without starting, it'll start becoming something that they've
00:27already done, so my focus was really like, listen to his voice, and then let me go in
00:32and just create, and I feel like, you know, nothing was premeditated, like coming into
00:37the room today, I just wanted to create on the spot, and his voice is amazing, his voice
00:43is the kind of voice, he can sing anything really, anything you can give him any sound,
00:47cause he has, he has such a beautiful voice.
00:49I always say, you know, they say, who's your favorite artist you worked with, and I'm like,
00:59you know, it's hard to choose because I don't know if I worked with them yet, you know,
01:05you never know who, you know, last year I started working with Rihanna, you know, and
01:13next year it could be Adele, who knows, you never know who's next, you just keep making
01:18music, you keep doing what you love, the passion, have the passion, the fire behind it, and
01:23you never know who's gonna be the next upcoming great artist that you work with, you know,
01:28my goal is always to just impact the industry somehow with the music that I make.
01:38No.
01:39Why is that?
01:40I feel like, I feel like R&B, they've made it, they've made R&B become too adult, contemporary.
01:47You know, R&B used to move culture, it used to move, it used to, R&B used to be mainstream pop.
01:53I think that we need to find some new, fresh R&B faces, I think that's, you know, I love
01:58what Justin is doing, what both Justins are doing, but where's the next person that's
02:04gonna come up that we haven't, that no one's ever seen, and that's gonna really shock the
02:09world with that new, new sound, that's what I'm waiting to see, hopefully I'll be able to find it.
02:17I think it was, I think the album is great, I think it's, I think it's, it's really
02:29close to what Michael would've wanted in an album, knowing him and knowing how we created
02:34together, and knowing the sounds he liked and everything, and my hesitation was more
02:41so, I didn't want to, I didn't want to produce songs that I didn't produce with Michael,
02:46so when he asked me to produce this song, this song, this song, I turned it down, because
02:52I felt like working with Michael on the songs that we worked with together was important,
02:57and Xscape was what we worked on together, we did that together, so that was important.
03:03And you think when you heard it, you were like, oh.
03:05Oh yeah, yeah, we would, we would, it would be like, it would be like this, play that
03:13sound again, Rodney, do that, do that sound again, and then I'd do the sound, and then
03:18I'd say, but Michael, we gotta add this, we gotta add that, no, no, no, no, okay, okay,
03:23so like, working with him so long, and we worked together so much, I know exactly how
03:29we used to interact, what he liked, what he didn't like, what I had, what he would challenge
03:35me on, the things I didn't like, and he'd get me to do it, and then the same thing,
03:39what he didn't like, I would get him to do it, and then it would be like that perfect
03:43combination, and that's really how everything gelled together with me and Michael.
03:51I want to come back, I want to, I want to, I want to do some work here, I want to experiment
03:56with more Middle Eastern sounds and artists, I would love to build a studio here, I would
04:01love to build a really top-notch facility here, so we'll see, we'll see what the future holds.