Scott Storch is a multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning record producer, songwriter, and entrepreneur, with over 50 billion streams and more than 100 million records sold worldwide. His new single "On My Own" featuring Abbie Stair is out now. https://open.spotify.com/album/2awsI47CHYE55cWPzYGPNf?si=WrGa9ueRSIuUFoRySm8hBw&nd=1&dlsi=96056a526c8d4a2c https://www.1217music.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: Who is Scott Storch and what is his background?
just just self-taught yeah and I you know I ended up taking three or four lessons and the guy was like you should just teach yourself really yeah like and my family didn't we didn't have no money like and my mom to get to the piano lesson all that shit was just I did my thing and like it's at a point where My mom and dad were like, can you go outside and play with the kids?
I'm tired of hearing this shit. No, no, no, no, no, no. And then that evolved into... I moved with my father. My parents had divorced. My dad was a court reporter, stenographer. And we moved from... I was born in New York. As an infant, moved to Florida. But when I was 15, just turning 15, I moved to Philly with my dad. And I was really getting into music.
I was experiencing hip hop now in my head. What year was this? I don't even know what year it was.
How old are you now? I'm 50. Okay, seven years different than me.
Yeah, okay. I'm real horrible with the years, but we're talking early 90s.
Yeah. Extremely early.
The beginning of the big hip hop boom out of New York. Yeah, and when I first found a love for hip hop, It was... this music that they were sampling all these, like, cool, like, Fender Rhodes sounds, like, say, Tribe Called Quest. That's not one of mine, but it was that, like, relax yourself, girl, you know?
Right, right, right.
That, like, native tongue, the De La Soul, all that type of shit was heavy, and, like, I was like, wow, the music is really great in this. It was different than, like, I mean, I loved N.W.A., and I loved, like... But that was, like, hardcore shit. And then, like, this musical-y guru and jazz and, like, all this shit was coming around. So I got into that, and I couldn't really afford a keyboard.
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Chapter 2: What iconic beats has Scott Storch created?
It's no talent. Yeah, if you're a passionate person and you love something so much, you're going to end up being good at it, I think.
It makes sense.
If you're doing it to get money or something else, it's questionable. You just want to be cool because you like music. But if you're so passionate about this shit that you're showing results and you're growing and you're seeing that... When you watch people's reactions... I still do to this day. If I'm in the studio, I'm playing some shit.
Like, I have this, like, weird thing where I start receiving satellite, and I'm, like, playing, and I don't even know what the hell I'm playing.
Receiving satellite. So, like, the muse.
I'm not even there anymore. I'm just, like, all of a sudden, I'm just doing this thing. I've been doing it for 30 years, and I watch the room. I'm like, oh, they like it.
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Chapter 3: How did Scott Storch get started in music?
So yeah, music, we started talking about how my music career evolved. Pull up to that mic. So earlier we were talking about where did it start, and I went all the way back. So now... I'm hanging with this guy, Richard, the videographer I was saying that I met in my dad's office. He took me in, started making an attempt to professionalize myself as a musician, joined The Roots.
We got a record deal. And... I loved it. I was now a very lucky guy to be involved in something cool, but I was bringing something real major to the table within the group. And I just felt like after a while, I wasn't appreciated anymore.
internet i was just going to be remembered as the guy who played keys for the roots like and i wanted more than that i left the group for a multitude of reasons some i usually don't talk about but like i you know boohoo i felt some reverse racism i know that people have dealt with like up and but i was just like kind of mortified once i'm on a stage and
I just remember I'm performing with The Roots in New York, this event called The Black Lily, and playing the keyboards, backing everybody up, and this and that, and somebody was rapping. They pointed at me, the white devil. I was just like, what the fuck is happening here? Were they serious?
Or were they joking around?
No, no, it was fucked up shit, bro. It really hurt me because I'm like, I don't see color. I don't see any of that shit. like, just coolest motherfucker in that aspect. Like, to me, racism bothers me. But it was like, you know, my family now were not representing for me, and I let that happen, and it just combined with... So someone on the stage said that? Yes, one of the rappers.
I'm not going to say names, but just... Shit was just like, how is this happening right now? God damn. And, you know, I felt like all the credit... for all the like big melodies and stuff that I was creating for the group was just being swept under the rug and like I said, I got to leave this group. And I'm dating this girl at the time who was like urging me not to.
She's saying, you're going to be the Pete Best of the Roots. You know who Pete Best is?
Yeah, the Beatle.
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Chapter 4: What challenges did Scott Storch face in his career?
Yeah, let me shut this off.
Isn't it funny that that fear of, like, the Pete Best type thing, that's such a real thing? In the beginning, you don't have any idea what your future's going to be.
Like, did I? And I would see shit on them.
Yeah.
Like, they're appearing here, they're doing this and that. I'd be like, fuck, but what did I do? Right. I hold in there. And then... A lot of people say this, but I'm a fucking very harmonious person. I always do good for everybody. You can accuse me of being a lot of things, but being an asshole, I'm not. So when I was in my first trip to L.A.,
I went to LA to perform and I did this open mic at the Martini Lounge. It was my first time ever going to California. And it was like, it was a Roots event. I wasn't in the group anymore, but like whatever I had to do, I was going to make a few hundred bucks to go play background on this thing. It wasn't the Roots. It was like an open mic with random people coming and this and that.
So I did this thing. And who do I see come up to me but a chick I knew from Philly. And she was like, Storch, what up? She's like, you're not going to believe this, but I signed a record deal with Dr. Dre in Aftermath. And I was like, wow, that's crazy. So she's like, I'm going to hook you up with Dre. You were always fucking good to me in Philly, and you never tried to smash.
You let me go in the studio, and we did cool stuff together. And, like, it was a platonic thing. Like, she was my homegirl. And sure enough, I go, and I meet up with Dre. I'm waiting for him to come out. I'm in the lobby, like, nervous as hell. I don't have anything to play for him. I have my fingers. That's about it.
And I go into a room and he sits me down and he's like, I heard you good at them keys. I start playing for him and this and that and he's real quiet and just like listening. I'm like, nothing's coming from this. I'm gonna go home sad today. He leaves the room. I'm still sitting in there. I'm like, I don't know if I should be just leaving or I'm supposed to stay in here.
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Chapter 5: How did Scott Storch's lifestyle affect his career?
This guy is fucking really driven. Him and his brother, they're like driven. Like, it's not at all... Everybody starts somewhere.
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
So they were YouTubers or they were on Disney Channel. Who cares? What you do with it? But the reality is... Mike is 58 years old, and I was worried. I love that guy, and he was a hero of mine when I was a kid. So to see him, 58 years old, fighting, part of me was like, fuck.
Me and him fought a lot of the same demons, and we were there for each other in a lot of ways. I talked to him in pretty deep conversations with Mike, and he actually checks on me and like, yo, you good? And I do the same. That's great. And my friend Rick. We're all kind of like... That's beautiful. Yeah, like...
That's beautiful.
He's a beautiful person.
He really is, man, for a guy who was the most terrifying fighter of all time. He's a really nice guy to be around.
I felt like I was in the fucking movie Hangover one time because I was hanging out with him in Vegas. I remember we're cruising around in my fucking Bentley Mulsanne at the time. And he's like, yo, let's go jam out. We went to the Palms from my hotel to the Palms, and we rented the studio there just so I could play piano. We're jamming out, playing old records and shit.
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Chapter 6: What lessons did Scott Storch learn from his experiences?
You're not going to get a cop. It's not coming now.
I have had so many friends that completely flipped a 180 after they got robbed. 180. They're Trump supporters now. It's crazy. People that were like full-on liberals, and then they get a gun pointed in their face, and all of a sudden they're like, oh, this is what we signed up for? You're just letting these people out? You arrest these people and let them out? And then they just do it again?
And they get arrested? What the fuck? The assistant to the DA in New York just got attacked, just got by some guy who had been – see if you can find this. He got robbed by some guy who had been arrested some insane amount of times since 2023. I was looking at the story online. I was like, this is so crazy that this person just keeps getting out and keeps robbing people.
And they just robbed the assistant to the DA. Alvin Bragg. R-O-R-D-L. Suspected gang member accused of exposing himself robbing Manhattan District. Exposing himself. He pulled his dick out and he robbed him. Exposing himself is funny. Go to the headline. Exposing himself is first. The robbing part, that second. But he showed him his penis. That is unbelievable. Unbelievable.
What is wrong with this world?
I don't mean to laugh about it, but it's just like, it's comedy, bro. It's like satire almost.
Brandon Samosa confronted the 38-year-old victim in the hallway of her building on West 44th Street around 2 a.m. Authorities say he grabbed the victim's purse, cell phone, and bank card before exposing himself. He pulled his dick out after he robbed her. He robbed her first, but they put it exposing himself for the most horrible thing that he did.
Police were able to track the phone and eventually arrest him near a hotel on West 45th Street, 8th Avenue on Tuesday, leading authorities to believe the suspect is a migrant. Possession of drugs. No, they know who the guy is, Jamie. They caught the guy. See if you can find a more updated version of it. Because he was arrested a ton of times since 2023.
There's reasons.
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