“It's tough when you're an artist because you get to go around the world and make a lot of friends, but guess what? One day, all these people that you love are going to die, from DJ Mehdi to DJ Dusk to J Dilla to Austin Peralta to DJ Rashad.”

American record producer, DJ, filmmaker, and rapper

Steven Ellison, known as Flying Lotus or FlyLo, is an American record producer, DJ, filmmaker, and rapper. He is associated with the Los Angeles experimental music scene and has released seven albums between 2006 and 2021. He is also the founder of Brainfeeder and has worked across music, film, and radio. His credits include much of Adult Swim's bumper music, the Captain Murphy mixtape Duality, the FlyLo FM station in Grand Theft Auto V, and the sci-fi horror film Ash.