The Evolution of Sound and Animation: An Interview with Rocky Miles

As we sit down with Rocky Miles, it's clear that this artist is on a mission to push boundaries and explore new sounds and styles. With his latest project, Dante's Toys, Miles has taken a leap into the world of animation, creating a unique and raunchy cartoon that's already gaining attention from fans and critics alike.

Miles' journey into animation began with his first album, where he was experimenting with different sounds and styles. "I was like okay this is completely different," he says, recalling the feeling of embarking on a new creative path. "Like I'm like okay this is unique, like this is something that can be brand and molded my like mold a new sound for me." This sense of excitement and discovery has been a driving force behind Miles' creative endeavors.

One of the key influences on Miles' animation style is the adult animated series Boondocks. "I was like oh I'm gonna make one of these," he remembers, reflecting on the impact that show had on his work. "That's where it all started out from uh you know my first album where I was blue and I just wanted to figure out how I concerned that character from the depression album that I put out years ago into an actual like you know character in a cartoon." Miles' desire to bring this character to life led him to explore other forms of animation, including Toy Story and Rick and Morty.

Miles' approach to animation is not just about following traditional formulas, but also about experimenting with new styles and techniques. "I watched part of Dante's toys earlier today and it's yeah legitimately hilarious," he says, acknowledging the influence of his own work on others. "You're like you got something with that." This sense of collaboration and creative exchange is a key aspect of Miles' approach to animation.

As we talk about Dante's Toys, it becomes clear that this project is just one part of a larger vision for Miles. "Right now we're just finishing up like we actually just finished the first episode," he explains. "We're working on actually getting a placement for for the cartoon looking for more writers you know we're gonna take you to the next level at this point I have been in talks with a couple guys from with das whim so we're just trying to figure out a situation with you know some writers over there and to help out and help gauge entire you know situation that we have going on with the cartoon and just pretty much help it expand you know and just make sure that all the writing and everything is just is done and more of a professional way."

Miles' ultimate goal for Dante's Toys is to bring this unique brand of humor and creativity to television. "I mean mm-hmm yeah set up for television for that Adult Swim exactly yes which I can see this would be a perfect fit for Adult Swim it's kind of what I thought of when I was watching them like yeah that that just fits right in there with all of that."

When asked about his favorite superhero, Miles reveals a surprising answer: Spider-Man. "Spider-man," he says, without hesitation. "What support spider-man's not really is he is he even Marvel yeah Marvel yeah they've got over into the into the cinematic one so yeah so he's Mia." This unexpected choice speaks to Miles' creative range and willingness to explore unconventional ideas.

For fans interested in following Rocky Miles' work, there are several ways to stay up-to-date. "You could actually go to my social media my Instagram," Miles recommends. "My username is rocky miles reps are a kem miles and my le s are ApS nice." By checking out his social media accounts, fans can stay informed about new projects and developments in Miles' career.

As we wrap up our conversation with Rocky Miles, it's clear that this artist is on the move, pushing boundaries and exploring new creative avenues. With Dante's Toys and upcoming album, Miles is poised to make a significant impact on the world of animation and comedy.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwe are excited now to be joined by rocky miles where Kim is a cartoon artist a rapper a musician he's kind of one of those guys who can do it all Rakeem hello thanks for joining us here on DT daily thanks so much for hopping in where you at right now I'm actually you know nice well like I said you are you're one of those people who's talented in like a bunch of different areas which makes me extremely jealous you are you're incredible and I've been following some of the stuff that you've been doing Rakeem and I wanted to ask you this just to start off you know your cartoon artist rapper like which which one came first which was your first love music he was he was basically a gothic gospel rapper and I would travel around with him and my love for music came from you know and beats and shows me just traveling with him around the time that I was like 11 and then I really jumped into it once I first heard the clips the grinders on I was like too young to really understand exactly why Pharrell was on jumpin all in the video but you know it pretty much came down to like you know just just seeing that overall aesthetic of that and just seeing like how you know just the lifestyle and everything really impacted my life you know I mean yeah yeah so you know that's that's what came first and then Boondocks of course yeah I was amazing so like that that was like another thing that really helped you know gravitate me to the cartoon and stuff like that yeah and so that came later after the music though yeah okay so that was the second one I mean that makes sense if you were traveling around you know as a kid on going around on a gospel to where I can only imagine what that was like you know this is a music you were exposed to just that lifestyle at such a young age I mean that had to have a huge impact on you well let's talk about because I want to talk about some of the the cartoons and it's talking about that side as well we want a little bit about tech but let's talk about you have a new album that let's yeah as it come out yet it's for action figure miles yeah it's actually it's not there's no like release date yeah okay I did do a listening party like a few days ago so what we're still working on like the date and everything for the album is completely finish misses it's it's you know it's packaged and it's ready to go we're just waiting to figure out you know a release date right now nice what kind of what kind of technology do you use when you're recording because if you're on the go a lot do you have some that have a specific program that you go to oh yeah logic that's the dog um and then I also use this thing called Rolly I don't know if you're familiar with it I'm not actually it's like the piano but you can also like it it's it's really it's really weird like you can kind of like glide your fingers around the board and it just it follows like it picks up this sounds like whenever you've you just likes white uh-huh it'll pick up that sound like you think it's kinda like drawing sounds like you know what I mean like Harlan's Rawlings on that makes sense yeah I got a weird oh yeah actually now that you said it I have seen that before but you're right that's I think it's the best explanation you can say is drawing with yeah drawing the music you know I like it and you can actually use it on your phone that's like yeah how is that influenced you you know being this lifelong musician like how is the technology influenced how you write does it change anything for you I mean other than the convenience factor do you listen to things differently now yeah there's like a lot of these new electronics as far as musical electronics like they have like new sounds and then that like if you know if you if you use the stock sounds within the program or you know within the system you can get sounds that people normally don't use because they're always you know on the internet looking for um just sounds on the internet that most likely everyone else is using so no one's paying attention to to the sounds that are actually in the she you know yeah and um I feel like that's one really cool thing that you know as this has held me is because just hearing new sounds also like and it inspires me I get inspiration from it and it's better for me to write you you know just hearing you know sounds that like I'm like okay this is like completely different this is unique like this is something that can you know brand and mold my like mold a new sound for me so that things making the exciting that makes sense yeah it's just getting exposed to something different you know then like you said what everybody else is using and hearing yeah I want to ask so as far as the animation so what got you into that side of it like other than you know watching boondocks and being like okay this is hilarious that's there's a there's a big leap there from watching that and fighting it funny - being like oh I'm gonna make one of these so basically I came up with the you know the writing and in the concept and how I wanted things to look and then I had an animator come in and do you know basically mold my vision so it all started out from uh you know my first album where I was blue and I just wanted to figure out how I concerned that character from the depression album that I put out years ago into an actual like you know character in a cartoon and also like a life you know like a real life character as you can see here you know I got mad with my house right now that's awesome to the book and you know all this stuff you know I just always wanted to bring that character to life and I just you know I thought about you know Toy Story and um you know all the things that inspired me and it just made me want to make you know creative cartoon but more of a raunchy parts you inspired by you know stuff like boondocks and you know Ricky Morty and various other cartoons that I love to watch and everyone else loves to watch yeah as well I could definitely see the influence in there but I watched part of Dantes toys earlier today and it's yeah legitimately hilarious you're like you got something with that yeah so where you at night right now with Dante's toys and where is it going going forward so right now we're just finishing up like we actually just finished the first episode you know we're working on actually getting a placement for for the cartoon looking for more writers you know we're gonna take you to the next level at this point I have been in talks with a couple guys from with das whim so we're just trying to figure out a situation with you know some writers over there and to help out and help gauge entire you know situation that we have going on with the cartoon and just pretty much help it expand you know and just make sure that all the writing and everything is just is done and more of a professional way you don't I mean mm-hmm yeah set up for television for that Adult Swim exactly yes which I can see this would be a perfect fit for Adult Swim it's kind of what I thought of when I was watching them like yeah that that just fits right in there with all of that well I know we don't have a ton of time but I did want to ask you a couple other questions so obviously okay you know you're into superheroes I would say is that fair to say yeah yeah so all right yes there's so many ways we could go with this but who's your favorite superhero of all time um if you had to pick let me think that's actually a really good one or maybe we can narrow it down in the Marvel we'll do Marvel Cinematic Universe who's been your favorite hmm well I was gonna go I was gonna go as Friday man first well as far as um let me think though I don't know overall I would say spider-man yeah what support spider-man's not really is he is he even Marvel yeah Marvel yeah they've got over into the into the cinematic one so yeah so he's Mia yeah okay spider-man a beard if you can have a superpower what would it be sure these are the hard-hitting questions for bringing you here I'm trying to shoot silly strength you know I'm saying yes silly strain and then I'm just trying to throw one foot off and just like smack it and then throw the foot back on and keep walking I like it that's like yeah that's it all right perfect whoa lucky how can everybody follow along with everything that you're doing you know all these different towels everything that you have working on like is there one good place people can go to follow you um you could actually go to my social media my Instagram and I've split it's where there's rocky miles it's just RAK me miles to my le s and then Instagram is rocky miles reps are a kem miles and my le s are ApS nice Instagram Wow awesome what Rakeem thank you so much you know if we take some time out of your day to do this looking forward to the album looking forward to seeing Dante's toys like you're awesome thanks for hopping on DT dailywe are excited now to be joined by rocky miles where Kim is a cartoon artist a rapper a musician he's kind of one of those guys who can do it all Rakeem hello thanks for joining us here on DT daily thanks so much for hopping in where you at right now I'm actually you know nice well like I said you are you're one of those people who's talented in like a bunch of different areas which makes me extremely jealous you are you're incredible and I've been following some of the stuff that you've been doing Rakeem and I wanted to ask you this just to start off you know your cartoon artist rapper like which which one came first which was your first love music he was he was basically a gothic gospel rapper and I would travel around with him and my love for music came from you know and beats and shows me just traveling with him around the time that I was like 11 and then I really jumped into it once I first heard the clips the grinders on I was like too young to really understand exactly why Pharrell was on jumpin all in the video but you know it pretty much came down to like you know just just seeing that overall aesthetic of that and just seeing like how you know just the lifestyle and everything really impacted my life you know I mean yeah yeah so you know that's that's what came first and then Boondocks of course yeah I was amazing so like that that was like another thing that really helped you know gravitate me to the cartoon and stuff like that yeah and so that came later after the music though yeah okay so that was the second one I mean that makes sense if you were traveling around you know as a kid on going around on a gospel to where I can only imagine what that was like you know this is a music you were exposed to just that lifestyle at such a young age I mean that had to have a huge impact on you well let's talk about because I want to talk about some of the the cartoons and it's talking about that side as well we want a little bit about tech but let's talk about you have a new album that let's yeah as it come out yet it's for action figure miles yeah it's actually it's not there's no like release date yeah okay I did do a listening party like a few days ago so what we're still working on like the date and everything for the album is completely finish misses it's it's you know it's packaged and it's ready to go we're just waiting to figure out you know a release date right now nice what kind of what kind of technology do you use when you're recording because if you're on the go a lot do you have some that have a specific program that you go to oh yeah logic that's the dog um and then I also use this thing called Rolly I don't know if you're familiar with it I'm not actually it's like the piano but you can also like it it's it's really it's really weird like you can kind of like glide your fingers around the board and it just it follows like it picks up this sounds like whenever you've you just likes white uh-huh it'll pick up that sound like you think it's kinda like drawing sounds like you know what I mean like Harlan's Rawlings on that makes sense yeah I got a weird oh yeah actually now that you said it I have seen that before but you're right that's I think it's the best explanation you can say is drawing with yeah drawing the music you know I like it and you can actually use it on your phone that's like yeah how is that influenced you you know being this lifelong musician like how is the technology influenced how you write does it change anything for you I mean other than the convenience factor do you listen to things differently now yeah there's like a lot of these new electronics as far as musical electronics like they have like new sounds and then that like if you know if you if you use the stock sounds within the program or you know within the system you can get sounds that people normally don't use because they're always you know on the internet looking for um just sounds on the internet that most likely everyone else is using so no one's paying attention to to the sounds that are actually in the she you know yeah and um I feel like that's one really cool thing that you know as this has held me is because just hearing new sounds also like and it inspires me I get inspiration from it and it's better for me to write you you know just hearing you know sounds that like I'm like okay this is like completely different this is unique like this is something that can you know brand and mold my like mold a new sound for me so that things making the exciting that makes sense yeah it's just getting exposed to something different you know then like you said what everybody else is using and hearing yeah I want to ask so as far as the animation so what got you into that side of it like other than you know watching boondocks and being like okay this is hilarious that's there's a there's a big leap there from watching that and fighting it funny - being like oh I'm gonna make one of these so basically I came up with the you know the writing and in the concept and how I wanted things to look and then I had an animator come in and do you know basically mold my vision so it all started out from uh you know my first album where I was blue and I just wanted to figure out how I concerned that character from the depression album that I put out years ago into an actual like you know character in a cartoon and also like a life you know like a real life character as you can see here you know I got mad with my house right now that's awesome to the book and you know all this stuff you know I just always wanted to bring that character to life and I just you know I thought about you know Toy Story and um you know all the things that inspired me and it just made me want to make you know creative cartoon but more of a raunchy parts you inspired by you know stuff like boondocks and you know Ricky Morty and various other cartoons that I love to watch and everyone else loves to watch yeah as well I could definitely see the influence in there but I watched part of Dantes toys earlier today and it's yeah legitimately hilarious you're like you got something with that yeah so where you at night right now with Dante's toys and where is it going going forward so right now we're just finishing up like we actually just finished the first episode you know we're working on actually getting a placement for for the cartoon looking for more writers you know we're gonna take you to the next level at this point I have been in talks with a couple guys from with das whim so we're just trying to figure out a situation with you know some writers over there and to help out and help gauge entire you know situation that we have going on with the cartoon and just pretty much help it expand you know and just make sure that all the writing and everything is just is done and more of a professional way you don't I mean mm-hmm yeah set up for television for that Adult Swim exactly yes which I can see this would be a perfect fit for Adult Swim it's kind of what I thought of when I was watching them like yeah that that just fits right in there with all of that well I know we don't have a ton of time but I did want to ask you a couple other questions so obviously okay you know you're into superheroes I would say is that fair to say yeah yeah so all right yes there's so many ways we could go with this but who's your favorite superhero of all time um if you had to pick let me think that's actually a really good one or maybe we can narrow it down in the Marvel we'll do Marvel Cinematic Universe who's been your favorite hmm well I was gonna go I was gonna go as Friday man first well as far as um let me think though I don't know overall I would say spider-man yeah what support spider-man's not really is he is he even Marvel yeah Marvel yeah they've got over into the into the cinematic one so yeah so he's Mia yeah okay spider-man a beard if you can have a superpower what would it be sure these are the hard-hitting questions for bringing you here I'm trying to shoot silly strength you know I'm saying yes silly strain and then I'm just trying to throw one foot off and just like smack it and then throw the foot back on and keep walking I like it that's like yeah that's it all right perfect whoa lucky how can everybody follow along with everything that you're doing you know all these different towels everything that you have working on like is there one good place people can go to follow you um you could actually go to my social media my Instagram and I've split it's where there's rocky miles it's just RAK me miles to my le s and then Instagram is rocky miles reps are a kem miles and my le s are ApS nice Instagram Wow awesome what Rakeem thank you so much you know if we take some time out of your day to do this looking forward to the album looking forward to seeing Dante's toys like you're awesome thanks for hopping on DT daily\n"