When he was about 18, he was playing drums at various places, but was also very interested in producing music. There was one church where he had played at whose pastor purchased a broadcasting studio package. One item in this pastor’s purchase was not needed by him, so he asked Nate if he wanted his MPC-3000.
“I was like ‘yes, I’ll take it.’ That was my first endeavor into putting my hands on a machine and trying to create something. That’s been a long time now.”
Nate jumped on this opportunity and received the music-producing machine free of charge.
The name “theBeatbreaker” came from an artist that Nate Robinson worked with called A1. They were good friends who had grown up together and “whenever we were in the studio and I play something for him, he always [said] ‘the beat breaker’ so I was like ‘Alright, cool. I’m just gonna ride with that.’”
As a producer, he works with lots of artists, and part of his role is creating relationships with artists so that they can make music together. “I realized a long time ago that my style of creating music is not something that you can put in somebody’s inbox as a music idea and they’re like ‘Yes, I love that!’ I realize my style is more like ‘let’s get in the incubator and let’s create something together because it’s gonna be different.
