Hypetrak

Jean Dawson is typically in the studio every day from 7 p.m. through 7 a.m., so an 8 a.m. call time fell right in the middle of his REM sleep. “Waking up today kicked my ass, but it was great. I need that sometimes,” says Dawson, who finds humility in the mundane.Waking up early isn’t a foreign concept for a now 29-year-old Dawson. He split his time between San Diego and Mexico, having to wake up before sunrise to walk to the bus to the U.S. border, where he and his younger brother Jerome would then wait in line for hours to cross into the States, where they went to school. This was the protocol for four years up until Dawson was in middle school; he’s always valued sleeping in after that. He tells me it's a marker of success.It’s similar to why the musician values hot showers so much. He ...