Creator to Creators S4 Ep 22 BENJI CASINO - a podcast by M.V.B Films Productions

‘It’s Benji Casino music, ain’t nothin’ like it’
By John Hacker
Benji Casino was in elementary school when he started making table beats in the lunchroom
when he was bored.
Now he produces music professionally that is like no other in the industry.
Now his latest singles, “Mm Mm Mm” and “Moon Walking” celebrate and demonstrate his
stream-of-consciousness style of writing and cross-genre sound that define “Benji Casino music.”
“When it comes to my song selection, if you listen to all my music, everything sounds different,”
Benji Casino said. “There’s not just one sound. I did promo recently and I told the publicist ‘it’s
Benji Casino music.’ It doesn’t sound like any other music but what it is. Only I can make music
like this, it’s Benji Casino music.”
And Benji Casino music comes from a unique headspace shaped by growing up in the city of
Cleveland, then moving to rural Ohio.
“I used to get into a lot of trouble up there so I moved out here,” Casino said. “It’s really in the
middle of nowhere, I'm not gonna lie to you. I grew up in the city life but then I moved out into
the country life and when I moved out here I found a different type of headspace, a more
peaceful, enlightened headspace. I got to thinking about my life and how I can do better in the
space that I’m in. I had to accept those and it just put me on a whole different plane.”
The single “Mm Mm Mm” is a song with deep personal meaning to Casino.
It’s a song about people who seemed to appear in his live when they wanted or needed something,
but disappeared when he needed someone to lean on.
The song talks about how the singer is looking for authentic people who really care for him.
“At that time I felt like I had nobody,” Casino said. “And ‘Mm Mm Mm’ is the hook, me
vocalizing is really just the hook and that’s how the whole song came together. I heard the beat
and said ok, this is fire, let me really run this through the pro tools. I was singing Mmm Mmm,
Mmm, and that’s where all the other lyrics came from.”
The song ‘Moon Walking’ came from a stream of thought that came to Casino after a night of
heavy partying.
“I got home and I heard the beat and said this is different,” Casino said. “It’s slow but it hits. And
I just started writing lyrics. Usually I don’t write songs but the way I see it, it comes how it
comes. Honestly, I just like going in the studio with no plans, nothing ready because that’s when
you come up with the most authentic songs. You come up with stuff lime ‘Mm Mm Mm,’ you
can’t write shit like that down and deliver it the same way. But I do believe when it comes to
creative inspiration, it comes how it comes, it comes and it goes.”
Casino said he’s working on an EP called “Perfect Timing” that will come out in a few weeks.
In the meantime he encourages his fans to check out his catalogue of music and find the singles
that touch them.
“I believe with the music that I've already released there’s something for somebody,” Casino said.
“You may not like ‘Choker Girls’ but you may like ‘Maria.’ I believe right now there’s so much
versatility across the whole catalogue there’s something for everybody. I know people in my
personal life that don’t like certain songs but they like other songs. Benji Casino Music, what I'm
making is me, it’s the things I go through, things that have happened in my life.
“I want people to know that everything that’s been released on my catalogue I've done myself.
Besides the beats, all the production was me. Everything sounds how it’s supposed to sound, I
wanted people to hear it how I heard it when it just popped into my head. That’s why everything
on my catalogue sounds different.”
Please follow Benji Casino on the following social media and streaming sites:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2YYBrPq9TP9BiixpDdytSa
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/ms/artist/benji-casino/1552612444
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benjicasino/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZoKxOsj3Dh_19mRMdTNYwg

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