Thick: Give us some history.
Bosko: My life story, I was born in Ghana, Africa. Grew up in Portland, Oregon as part of a musical family. I played trumpet in jazz band. I won a set of turntables in a breakdance contest. I started DJing. I used the DJing money to buy my equipment, drum machine, four-track and all that. Produced songs in the basement of my mom's house for myself and the kids in the neighbourhood, and my best-friend Cool Nutz. I got full ride academic scholarship to USC. When I got to Cali I started getting into the game. Got a pub deal at EMI. I had a group that I was producing that Jive was interested in, and they hooked me up with E-40. I did the Sprinkle Me remix and started working with 40 after that...and started working with everybody in the Bay from Too $hort to Keak Da Sneak. And it just kinda went on from there, worked with Lil' Kim, Aaliyah, Hot Boys, Lil' Wayne, Baby, Juvenile, Mystikal, Bone Thugs 'N Harmony, Master P, Snoop Dogg, Kurupt... One of my biggest records was a song called Worldwide that I did for 2Pac and the Outlawz. It was after 2Pac died but it was a big single for the Outlawz, I think their biggest single. A little bit later Limp Bizkit did a remix album where they invited the best producers in the industry to be part of the album, and I was one of those people along with Timbaland, Neptunes, Puffy. They did a big MTV Special on the whole thing and that was real cool. I did the talkbox on Kanye's Workout Plan, and won a Grammy. Performed that song live on the American Music Awards. When Anne Nicole was on there having her breakdown, we was up there performing. So, that was crazy. I did some of stuff overseas with this cat called LOC. He had the fastest selling Hip-Hop album ever in Denmark. I produced that record and guest appeared on it. That was real cool, that was just last year. I made creative contributions 40's Tell Me When To Go and U & Dat singles. Now, I'm working on a lot of new good shit.

T: Talk about you and 40's working relationship.
B: It's real cool because the lifestyle in Bay and Portland is real similar. We mesh real well. Once we started working together it just kinda turned into almost like a family thing. I'd be at his house, his people be cooking chicken dumplings, and his kids be running around, and he'd be in the studio making it happen. His whole family is part of his organization, from his siter, Suga T, and D-Shot, and his cousin, B-Legit, and the Mossie. So, we just really clicked and saw eye to eye. We experienced a lot of the same things as far as growing up and seeing the dope game, and the pimp game, which heavily influenced the culture in the Bay and in Portland. Man, we been making records for a long time now. When we get in the studio he know what I'm thinkin', and I know what he's thinkin'. He might shoot me an idea on the beat, I might shoot him an idea for a hook. It's real smooth. It's no egos involved or nothin', we just get down.

T: Speak on some of the equipment you like to use.
B: My first instrument was trumpet. Then, I started playing piano and a lil' bit of guitar. I've always sang as well. From around the house, to church choirs, to singing the national anthem at one of my basketball games in highschool. So, I'm really proud of being a renaissence man, you know, do it all. I've also been a techie, really into the equipment, reading all the magazines, going to all the conventions. I was actually a beta tester for a while for both ProTools and for Logic. So, I'm like real deep into the software. I do everything in software, I've done it that way for years. I have an engineering degree from USC, so like I said, I get real technical. Really, I can do anything on a laptop, give me the laptop and Logic and I'm good to go...a keyboard controller and good speakers and I'm set. It's all about the software to me. That being said, I've made records on the MP (MPC), I've made records on the SP1200, I used to use the ASR-10 for the longest. I can make a record on anything but I do prefer the laptop and the sequencing of Logic over anything really. I make my own custom sounds, I don't like to use stock sounds. I try to do something different. I don't wanna hear the same sound I used on my record on somebody else's record. So, the best way to make sure that don't happen is to create my own stuff.