We got a video of Michael Barber along with a MC we post on here a lot, Matty Moe, and we instantly googled him. Michael Barber is a producer-MC out of Indiana, now residing in south Florida. His Wikipedia said, “He invented the Messy Music Style”, and that he dated Danielle Fishel.(yeah Tapanga from Boy Meets World) The song we posted, Deadly Combo is a chill video that was shot in Barber’s hometown of Evansville, Indiana. The beat was produced by Barber and it has an old-school feel to it. Peep the video and questions after the jump..(editors note-we did these questions via email so we don’t know what michael is talking about on some of these answers)

1. What is up with Michael Barber?

I am blessed. Happy. I am sideways. Drugs are used to maintain a level in your brain a certain way, doctors give you a paxil and xanax to get you one way but you want to go another way. So it ends up that the uppers get you down and the downers get you up.

2.Tell us about your new video “Deadly Combo” with Matty Moe?

Matty Moe is my homie. He is a dope MC. He came down to my studio here at the beach and we kicked it, went to the strip club, overdosed on pills it was crazy. The video was actually shot in my hometown of Evansville, Indiana, I was up there visiting family and we shot the video around my hometown. I actually ran into some kids I grew up with while we were shooting the video.

3.Tell us about your production, you being a producer?

The word producer is over used. I like to sample stuff but the guy I work with, he is all original, so we have a constant battle. Sometimes he replays stuff and we make it our own. In the past I would use all samples, sample the drums, loop a guitar, now it is different. I don’t really know what else to say about it.

4.What is the studio process like for you?

I have a studio in house, with drums and everything, so my process is really different than anybody else. I can be eating and walk right into the studio and lay down a loop. I can record at anytime, so there is times, i guess when I get maniac, off my medication were I just record for days, 5, 6, 7 days at a time. I will call my dad and he will know that I am off my medication and tell me to take it. So my process is really odd. I have written over 1400 songs. like completed. that many, so the amount that I don’t have completed is crazy like 4-5 thousand. My favorite thing in life is the pure creation of music.

5. Tell us about your group Illuminati Sky?

Illuminati Sky is me and Mr. Bootlegs aka Josh Tifer a rock producer, more metal hard core rock type of music. I met him a few years back as he was coming off of heroine He is sick. Plays the keys, plays guitar, plays bass, plays the drums, everything. So we bonded over music, and I would be working on somethings, and he was in an out of bands, big touring metal bands. Then we just decided to do somethings together, and we got drunk one night with some girls and snuck into a hot tub at a hotel pool around here, and we came up with the name, Illuminati Sky. It’s cool, cause we know the skies we are living under probably have a bigger meaner. We have two albums done, I think one is coming out on a major label, but I don’t know. I want to give it away and just tour again, It is different, it isn’t hip hop, it isn’t metal, and it isn’t really a mix. It’s just us.

6.Can you talk to us about the Messy Music Style?

Some publicist I hired two years ago pinned that on me. She was like, well you use every genre let’s make a name for your music. So she called it that. I shouldn’t have hired a publicist. I was depressed at the time I think. Putting out a lot of drug songs. I make music, I call it “Dust Music”. Dust Music is the shit. Grimey old records that have dust on them, we put that on, light up something, maybe some “dust” is on it, and we sample some shit, then add live shit on it. Dust Music.

7.Do you have a new project we should be looking for?

We got the Illuminati Sky album that we are finishing up, well two albums really, and then we got SofaBed. I got this joint Sofabed that I did with B.Stille of Nappy Roots that is coming out and it is dope. Be on the look out for me and Matty Moe got another few songs we about to put out online and I should be shopping my next solo album to the labels here soon. I don’t have a name for it yet.

8. Do you have any last shout outs or links?

LaLa for putting up with me over the years even though I am crazy. Mr. Bootlegs for making the hottest tracks. DJ Fade and Matty Moe for being two really down ass motherfuckers that tell me the truth. My family. Jonathan Hay for working with me.and the fans. It’s real getting tweets from them and messages on Facebook from people all over the world. thanks….