As far as Willie Green is concerned, it’s all about the drums. The youngest child in a musical family, Paul “Willie Green” Womack got his first drum machine at the tender age of eight, accompanied by “some sort of Casio keyboard”. Needless to say, he promptly started wrecking shop.

“I used to tape two sets of headphones together so I could make beats with the drum machine and keyboard at the same time. Since I didn’t have a four-track, I took two boom-boxes, would record the drums on one, then play that back, record that and the keys back on the other.”

By fifteen, Green was part of his uncle’s R&B/Reggae band, playing the drums in clubs he was not even old enough to legally patronize. A lifelong passion for hip-hop music gained its first serious outlet while Green was attending Berklee College Of Music in Boston. He would graduate with a degree in music production and engineering, as well as a burgeoning reputation in the Boston underground scene as a talented beatsmith and sureshot engineer. Still, it was not until relocating to Brooklyn in mid 2007 that the ball really started rolling.

Four years later, he has worked with unknowns, knowns and soon-to-be-knowns alike, building up a resume of collaborators that includes Cannibal Ox, Reks, LuckyIAm (Living Legends), Roc Marciano, Open Mike Eagle, Naledge of Kids in The Hall, the Super Chron Flight Brothers, Masai Bey and Boston fixtures Foundation Movement and Bad Rabbits, among others. Shortly after Green began collaborating with the Super Chron Flight Brothers, Backwoodz Studioz was so impressed they invited him to take on some in-house production duties.