Inside Black Milk's Basement Studio Part 1

Based on Milk's referencing of 'being about to sign his first big record deal' this video might be safely placed as somewhere between Sounds of the City, two Pharaohe Monche records, Lloyd Banks, T3's Oleo Mixtape and the release of his definitive Popular Demand. Given that he is also working on predominantly an MPC 2000 it's likely from that period.

He lays down a track from Slum Village's Detroit Deli album (the track is one with Dilla - then Jay Dee - called Reunion). You can watch that clip/video on it's own here.



he introduces the listener to his love of The Sylvers (of whom Milk says 'they're right up there with The Jackson Five man'. At 6:00 Cross discusses the passing of J Dilla and Proof and the pause for thought it caused him and all of Detroit, indeed the world.

I don't even fuck with jazz records man.
- Curtis Cross aka Black Milk