Mike Will Made It | Ep 215 | ALL THE SMOKE Full Episode

like seven years ago. Okay, yeah, so took a little break off for that, and then I was just like learning, like being able to articulate myself, man, because I have like a whole company. I have producers, I have a production company, I have a record label, you know what I'm saying. And then it's like I lost my heart drives. And then when I lost my heart Drives, that made me feel like that made me take a step away

from music. You know what I'm saying. I started buying like real estate, start trying other like different different like business ventures and stuff like that, you know what I'm saying, and just not all the way just zero straight in on music. It's not like I took a step away from music and when it got burnt out, you know what I'm saying, Like I want to sharpened up.

always been a fan of the NBA. I was letting them hear a bunch of different music that I was working on, and then like that Sway Lee and Lotto

record really stood out to them. So they were like, man, you think they could do another edit for like the commercial art and we want you to like give us like a sound really, you know what I'm saying, Like we usually go to like record labels and collaborate with like record labels and tap in with their different artists like that, but like we never really locked in with

a producer. So it was dope to like for them for them to see that, And it was like I came with a couple of different ideas, like I gave him like our beat, you know what I'm saying, Like, y'all, I feel like he's have dope energy. We write down a couple of names of artists that we hear on like these beats. So after this way and a lot of record boom, we came with the money bag yo and watch TV fat Like, I just liked what they

got going on. So they had knocked out one of the beats, and then we got a couple more songs on the way and stuff, so it was dope. It's a dope collaborator.

So it was like man, boom, Like they're like, man, we need some high energy something like you know what I'm saying, Like just imagine like a little side side like tournament going on within the season and like this is something mess up people fighting for like how Lebrown went off last night, Like it's like, man, what the hell out? You know what I'm saying, and it's like he taking his eies. Like it's like the playoffs, Like you know what I'm saying, so boom with now or Never.

It was like they needed some high energy. So that's how I mean, that's how we really chose that beat. Gave it the bag, bag nail, the nail, the concept. Yeah.

beats and I'm like, bro, you hearing this? You know what I'm saying, Like what room with this living? Like how you feel like this is going to stand up? Cause you know what I'm saying right now, you just starting off like and I can like challenge them in these rooms and I can start seeing like their sounds like form into something, form into something different, and like

them start putting their DNA on there. So it's like I like producing like that, and then I like for show cooking up, like I go to the studio, made about three three to five beats to day easy, Like that's just like the regimen, like I try to make

five different bangers. But then it's like working with the different team and coming with the different sounds and then bringing in songwriters and then putting those different songs together, and then different artists coming through my studio and then it's like I can challenge them and try to get them a different sound and they doing They're coming in there already looking like Yo, this studio is different, right, Like man, I got to do something different in here,

like you know what I'm saying.

a song that pops in your head with that. So it's like I always try to get my team to understand like that part. So then they coming through leaving that same DNA like dope right up.

just make something. I even think, just try to do something out of pocket, as long as it's out of pocket and it feel new and fresh. And they got the room like this, and they got the people in the room that don't rap acting like they wrap. You know what I'm saying, That's when you got some shit, yeah for real, because that's that's the vibe for real,

you know what I'm saying. And then it's always good to have like a musician around as somebody who's like good on the keys or like I like to collab like that, so had them plug up too, I might

just I might just do that boom. Somebody might be playing the guitar, playing the piano or playing playing on the keyboards or something like that, and it's just adding to it and just adding the layers, because that's essentially when you're making the song, that's all you doing, you know what I'm saying, Just stacking rhythm and melody.

like that. In my pots, he always had like he always he was like a DJ. So he always had hell of rap records and stuff in in the crib. So like all the earth wind the fires, all the classics. You know what I'm saying, Bobbie won't make like all the classes. Yeah, he had all the vinyls. Somebody used to see him like just put a vinyl on, play, play the record, and then when he leave, I want to do the same thing, but I want to hear something, so I'll put it on there and think I know

what I'm doing. Break his needle, like damn, you know what I'm saying, ruar it up. I got two older sisters. So my sister that's closest in age to me, like she always listening to like R and B pop that kind of stuff, like some rap stuff, but like she was like more that leaning. Then my older sister would be more rap, you know what I'm saying. Like, but she'll be like she was like out cast, you know

what I'm saying. Like her husband put me on like jay Z, Like you know what I'm saying, Because at first I was really like just down South hip hop, like all the way. But then her husband put me on like Blueprint, and that's when I really started rocking with jay Z. I fucked with him on that Juvenile album. But like when I heard that Blueprint, I was like, oh no, he hard. Then I went back to reasonable doubt and then I just started, you know what I'm saying,

tapping all the way in the right way. I was always like a down South hip hop artist or like a West Coast or like I like New York artists too, like Nas and DMX, Jadykiss like off the rail, you know what I'm saying. But yeah, so it was like that. So it was always like that mix, that mix up in the crib. I remember my pops had took me to my first hip hop concert with Bone Thust and Harmony Bone Thus in Harmony whoopd somebody's ass in the crowd and everything like the whole concert ended, we had

to leave and all that. But my pops was like in the car, he was tripping because he was like, yo, music's about the end. I'm like what you mean. It was like yo, there was no instruments on stage, and I was like so what man? That shit was hard, Like you know what I'm saying, This is like ninety four ninety five. But he used to go on the Earth Wind the Fire concerts and all this, so this

is his first hip hop concert too. But that just stuck with me, like because I always was like listening to music, but when I started making music, that stuck with me, you know what I'm saying, Like and that that really like that stuck with me because I realized, like, Okay, things are like changing and evolution, like you know what I'm saying, and like that's what I even had to look back on, like over these last seven years, it's like looking back and being like, Yo, we actually pioneered

some shit, like we actually like ye, like we weren't a part of that movement, you know what I'm saying, but like I was like the early stages of that, but like being a student of that, seeing it and not even understanding like there was anything else out there, you know what I'm saying, and then being able to come in and make our own imprint in that shit.

wake up, Like I'm like, who this is? He was like, man, they gooch be at Patchwork at two o'clock, pull up with with some hard beats. But at this time I had already knew Goots for a couple of years. I already knew Walker for a couple of years, but he never had got on my beats or anything like that. Like you know what I'm saying. It was like feel like getting that call?

fuck with me. I got the beats. And I'm like fifteen. You know what I'm saying. I'm like, fuck with me, man, I got the beats. He's like, oh yeah, to the beats. Went in the lounge, put a man, him and Fabo in the lounge is freestyling on the beats, you know what I'm saying. So then I'm outside the room and I'm just listening to it. I'm like, that's hard, Like I hope they record something. So next thing, you know, Gucci come out there. He like, hey, man, you shot

it with the beats. Boy. He bring me up there. He get my number. He tell me he needs the session for the beats. He like, man, let me get your number. Nah, I got his line. I got somebody trying to buy some beats. Like he just noticed this young dude calling his phone. But he fucked with me. This one. He was doing features for like like twenty five hundred, like five thousand, like you know what I'm saying. This trapped out Gucci like this way back in the day,

so Boom, he had got locked up. When he got locked up, me and Walker randomly meet each other. We don't even know who each other is, you know what I'm saying. So we're in the same club. He got a cruel people. I got a cruel people. One of his guys came in my face throwing up something. My guy pushed him back. Boom, and I was about to be on. Next thing, you know, my boy Obs and Walker come out of nowhere. Walker jump in front of his guys and now my boy Obs. He come, he

come up, he and he like dat Walker. They're standing in front of us. They wap up. So I'm looking at ours because my boy Obs had just moved down from New York. So in this in this time of of like Atlanta clubs, like we're fighting in the club, like you know what I'm saying. So like when when Oz like tapped up, I was like, hold on what you know what I'm saying? And Walker was like, man, aren't you from New York. I'm like, nah, he from New York. You know what I'm saying. And he was like, man,

bro cool man. He had New York had them, and he told his guys like, hey, man, y'all back up, brou you know what I'm saying. Then they then they all went the other way. Then me and Walker ended up running into each other in the bathroom. He leaving out. Then when I leave out, I see him right there in the hallway and I'm like, all right, boy, was just me and him in the club, you know what I'm saying at this part of the club. So I'm like, man, I might have to hit with this dude whatever. He

won't even know there. He just put his arm around me, like, hey, bro, I'm just young and just defensive. I'm really too young to even be in the club for real. He put his arm around, like, hey, bro, some holes in here. Bro like, man, bro, this y'all try to y'all stay out here. I'm like, hey, yeah, I'm like, yeah, we stay out here. He was like, man, I'm not really off from He was like, man, we're from the South Side, my word. And then I tell him, I'm like, man,

my bad about earlier. Bro. Man, we just been trying to get to the money. He was like, yeah, my boys was tripping.

my number. Then we connected. Then he ended up connecting me and Gucci. You know what I'm saying. When me and Gucci ended up connecting, like I used to come to the studio, shot a red fat boy, all them they might be in the studio. These all the producers I'm looking up to. So next thing, you know, like Gucci just put me on blast like it might put the beats on. I'll be like, man, hey, no, you know what I'm saying. So and he was like, man, yo, don't do all the nervous stuff. Man, put the beats on.

You know what I'm saying. So I'm like, I put the beats on. They started freestyling to the beats, but he never got on them. So that day right there, the Mike Will made it Gucci man slated part. It was like that was the first day he called me up to the studio boom and we did star Status. I played the beat and he walked in. He was like, he was like, man, yo, might will on that beat right there, buddy, start status sayings Nigga straight celebrity baby.

I'm like, oh shit, And Nigga turned me up. You know what I'm saying. Then in his verse, he said that Mike Will made it, Gucci Man slated start sat this nigga. Everybody upgraded from there right from that point right right there, Like when that song came out, everybody was like, Mike Will made it, that's your name, because at first I was going by Mike Will. When they heard that, I was just like, all right, Mike Will

made it. That's really where the name came from. We ended up doing like twenty songs, Gucci not even listening to the beats, Like he just pulled up the next Mike Will go in the lounge to listen to the last song he did, walked straight into booth, turning to Mic on he don't even listen to the beat. Mike Will just picked the beat, just going in a freestyle. That's how we were doing No Pay, No Pencil. That's how we did Guappaholics, And yeah, that's where it all started.

Like Charlamagne heard it. He fucked with it. He was like he was like bet and they played on Breakfast Club. It went up. Then they shot the video, So that might be what you're talking about. First day out the Fans when he was in the house, he couldn't even leave, yeah, for real. And then we did Black Beatles. Now you know me and Coots, man, we always rocking like for real, man, we got to that's like one of them you know

y'all know them dynamic duos. Man, for real, that that team work where he just ain't even really got to say too much to a person. You know what I'm saying, y'all, just give and go. He past.

Little John was a heavy influence where It's like I respect that how he had the city and the chokehold on all spectrums. He had to turned up club records, the Crump records for passing try and then he had the bankers with us. Then he had the joints with Loutter. Then he had the joints for you know what I'm saying.

his own sound. And then Drummer Boy like he brought that Memphis sound to the A and like I was just seeing it and it was like all right, cool, like now this is like the South sound like the eight Awaits and you know what I'm saying, different stuff like that. So then I started building my team the ear Drummers, And when that happened, Yeah, Ear Drummers came about in two thousand and seven, and it was just me,

you know what I'm saying. And then I was going to high school my brother plus and then boom, he was the first one with ear drummers. And then I saw it like I always was trying to, like in my mind, I always wanted to build this team where it's like there's a bunch of producers that's thinking outside of the box. It's like thinking on my level, you know what I'm saying, where I look at them like, man, ship, Man,

you could do this on your own. But the way I'm thinking, like, man, we do this shit like this, like we could change your game. So it's like, man, I felt like a team like that. Everybody on there was like it was like the Gladiators, you know what

I'm saying, Like plus P Nasty Mars J Bow. So we started coming with this sound where it's like, man, Okay, we're gonna put the you know what I'm saying, like the beats und there filter, you know what I'm saying, We're gonna have to eight away its hitting in a distorted way, and we're gonna take this the future and we're gonna take this Gucci, We're gonna take this to two chains like you know what I'm saying, We're gonna

take this to trouble. We're gonna take this to dump like everybody who we were rocking with, like you know what I'm saying, and and like boom, I was just like the underground Atlanta sound. But it was like our sound was known for, like Okay, the beat gonna sound like it's going under the water. The base gonna sound like it's distorting. It's gonna have this different kind of sound that it's gonna break like this, and it's like, man, we just kept coming consistently that on every track and

all our beats was always just different. Always a lot of times the artists would be like, man, I don't know how to get on this one, and I might have to tell him like man, just do you like the same flow, Like even when we did itching like rock and with Pluto, Like you know what I'm saying, I'm like when you heard the beat, he like to beat hard. B If you get on this and just do that, we win and flow bro, it's out of here,

like you know what I'm saying, because we win. In one of my favorite Pluto songs, like my Nigga June got life forlow ninety nine years, were popping about us every day, you know what I'm saying, Like like just that voice, that tone, like how he was just cutting through on that song.

beat to the studio. And I caught him on a good night he had just did Tony Montana and then he did Anyway Around It the same night. You know what, I'm saying, but it was like he turned that beat down so many times, but I could just hear him on the beat. I knew he was on that beat, and it just ended up being like a classic, you know what I'm saying. At that time, it was like, man, we were trying to make a name for ourselves. So it's like just knowing, like now this beat is for

this person. No, lie, this is for two chains. We ain't gonna get this nobody right now, Like I gave it to a couple of people, you know what I'm saying. But I knew that.

I'm arguing with the mixing engineers like they're showing me on the board where it's like, now we can't crank that it away up anymore because of this, that and the third, and it's like, but that don't matter. I'm talking about how I feel like you know what I'm saying, Like I'm trying to create the new rock and roll, Like you know what I'm saying, hip hop to me, it is the same thing as rock and roll. It's just this is our rock and roll, like you feel me.

So it's like, now let's break the rules a little bit, like let's make it distort, like you know what I'm saying. Distortion always been art, you know what I'm saying, Like people love distortion when they listen to rock and roll. So it's like, man, like just always breaking those rules

and just being out of pocket. I feel like, you know what I'm saying, and not just coming with that same boom boom boom, like you know what I'm saying, that the same you know what I'm saying, Like you know how it's gonna drop, you know how the high hat's gonna go, Like not not trying to do that.

And in school, like we was always around the same ape. But I always knew school corrap, like you know what I'm saying, Like he was always hard. So then it was like boom, we're moving around resting piece of bank like I was moving around at this time. I would be in La and then I'll come back to Atlanta and then I'll be like, man, all right, boom, like because I'm always thinking about like what I'm gonna do for it, like we gotta do it for the city,

Like what's gonna be like another like city win. So it was like bank Roll. I was like, man, I'm locking with bank Roll, like and then we did a couple of songs on my Ransom project and then like we're we're working on some stuff and then boom, he had passed. And then it was like School. I would like keep in touch with School and he would like send me songs here and there. School would either be

focused on music or he's not focused on music. So I'm telling School like, bro, I'm here, Like you ain't got to keep telling me send you beats. I'm here like whenever you want to focus, Like you know what I'm saying, Like I'm here. So then next thing you know, School started dropping different mixtapes and I was hearing on it. I'll be tapping in on his mixtapes and I call him like, brouh, you went crazy on this on the mixtape with you and told me you went crazy on

this mixtape that I had. Bro Boom, Man, my boy Ducko gonna come to the studio. Man, y'all, y'all boys, cook up something. I'm'na be back in town this week. They did big God. I ended up using that on Ransom too, and I was like my favorite song, Like, like how he kept that motherfucker. So I was like, Man, I told school. I was like, Bro, when I get back to you, hey, bro, we just got to like lock in, make a sound. You just put it out and then Bro like, man, people gonna come to you,

people gonna gravitate to you. Bro, like cause you hard. Bro. I don't know what you know what I'm saying. I don't know what it's gonna take or what Like, you know what I'm saying, Like, let's just whenever I get back, like, let's just lock in. So he was like, all right, Beck so boom. I was at Tree siund one night, was like twelve or one in the morning. I thought about it. I was like, damn wants to hit school. I hit him. I'm like, Yo, School, what here you at.

I'm in the city. I'm I'm about to drop you the address. Pull up to the studio, send him the address. He came out to the Tree sound. We did bring it back as soon as he walked in the room, I was making to bring it back beat. As soon as he walked in the room, he was like, I said something, my Motherfuckingry Diamond's on a young nigga dancing. You know what I'm saying, Like, hey, man, load to beat up, hold to beat up. I'm like, bro, I ain't even down to beat you know what I'm saying, Like, man,

load that ship up. Bro, that shit hard. I'm like, man, record the beat man, let him get on it. So he got on it. Did you do those thing which one No, we ain't do, Dophin, Yeah, that's what that album, the last album did. Yeah, they didn't do no thing, but man, those were hard. No thing was hard.

And then we're coming through the game and you know what I'm saying, Like like we're saying anywhere around it and and Dirty Sprite and itching. I was all twenty eleven, so twenty twelve it was that's for a future, you know what I'm saying. And then with two changes, it was Got one and Lila twenty eleven, twenty twelve, it was music as you made. I don't know how you remember this, because this was a significant part in my career. I was hungry. I was like starving like literally like

I ain't have no management at this time. I ain't know nothing about the music business. I won't getting no music, I won't getting no money out of music or nothing like that, you know what I'm saying. So like Booing twenty twelve, it was like no, lie U turn on the lights and bands make a dance. I was like the breakout year. I still didn't have no management. That's when I met my management, you know what I'm saying. And then Boom. After that it was like uh Rihanna

poured up, you know what I'm saying. That I met with Miley's label Boom. Then we did We Can't Stop twenty three. That was twenty thirteen, and you know what I'm saying, Now we're cooking with now we now we're cooking like our executive produced Miley album. I'm right here moving while with Pluto we dropped Move that dope. I ended up meeting with Jimmy Ivian like every day, like from twenty twelve to twenty fourteen. When I signed my deal,

like I was, really I was. It really took me like a year and a half, two years to even sign my deal because I was just nervous about that shit. I'm like, I'm winning. I'm winning when it comes to production. I got thirteen songs on the radio. Do I want to turn into an executive? You know what I'm saying. I ain't want to do anything where I was gonna lose that. So I was nervous at that shit. And then that's when that's when Jimmy was just telling me, like, man, yo, man,

you can't lose. You're not a loser. You know what I'm saying. You can either learn to earn. And that shit stuck with me. You can either learn to earn. And I just signed my deal. First artist, first artist we signed was Ray Shrimmer. You know what I'm saying. That's Ear Drummers backwards. Like you know what I'm saying, Jimmy and Swae Lee, they were already stars. So I'm like, man, bro, I never knew that it's still going on from Pepperhead

I was. I was ten years ago. So my record label, Ear Drummers I started two thousand and seven, you know what I'm saying. When I came with the record label, I was like, man, I'm gonna have a rock and roll side. You know what I'm saying, and I wrote down, what's ear drummers backwards? So I wrote it down and it was Ray Shrimmer. I was like, I'm gonna start a rock band. You know what I'm saying. That's crazy.

And then when I met when I met Jimmy and Sway, they were rock and roll artists to me when I saw them, they straight from Tupelo, Misissippi. My boy P Nasty had them at their cribs. Yeah, I already seen him a couple of times. They came to the club with us a couple of times. They were young, you know what I'm saying. And I know they were songwriting.

But when I saw them, like in they artists mode and like Sway Lee rapping and Jimmy but the streaming ad libs or like rapping with him and then Jimmy are jumping start rapping and Sway he got the same energy. I'm like, bro, I don't know what I lean I remember I leaned on the wall. I'm like, bro, he dudes, they some real rock stars, like and I told him this ship. I'm like, bro, y'all some real rock stars. So boom. Next thing you know, their name was Sway,

so it was Jimmy Swaying and sway Lee. I was just telling them like, man, my man is sway in the morning. So if I go to stat like you heard that new ship I got with Sway, You're gonna think like you got something sway in the morning. Like damn, that's crazy. I ain't no Swaying to morning to be rapping. You know what I'm saying exactly. You know what I'm saying. Like it might not register, but I'm like, man, what y'all think about the name race Shremmer? So they were like,

what's that? I'm like, man, that's drummers backwards. They're like, oh, ship, that's hard. And then they're like, man, yo, we'll fuck with that. Hell yeah, man shrim Life. I'm like, that could be the name of the album. See with them, I already knew they gonna make anything cool. So it's like, man, they could they could be that rock band. And it's like, man, Yo, it's gonna take people a long time to even catch up with it, and they ain't gonna know how to

say it. But it's like, man, we don't go to these other countries and tell people like man, yo, we only know how to speak English. You know what I'm saying, Like, speak English, Like nah, you learn their language. You move how they move, you eat how they eat. You know what I'm saying. So it's like, man, boom, if they like y'all records, y'all got all these hits, they gonna learn how to say ray Shimmers. They'll learn that there's Beckwards ten years later. You know what I'm saying.

what I'm saying, Like, should be out of here. And I'm like bro Chris saying like I hate when people say, like, man, you know, if I had Black Beatles, just give me black Beatles, man, I hate Yeah, I just hate that. So that but it was like it was like this beat that my boy Jabo had made that was exactly like bands make a dance. Like you know what I'm saying. It was like another version. I was like, man, y'all really want that? I bet bo when I played the beat, tryan.

He a hell of a rider, you know what I'm saying. So he just goes straight in, start catching the vibe, you know what I'm saying, and then boom, Chris Brown come to the studio and you know what I'm saying. Chris Brown come to the studio and he here. He like, You're like, man, yo, shit reheard this. I was like, man, she ain't heard it yet. He was like, man, I'm gonna tell her about this one. And I was like I'm like, man, that's hard. Man say let's you know

what I'm saying. Next thing, you know, Rihanna called the next day called Obam, was like, Yo, what's the song Chris talking about that? Mike Will got you know what I'm saying. Next thing, you know, boom, she hears pour it up. She cuts that shit last minute for the album. I didn't even know if I was gonna make the album.

You know what I'm saying. Shout out to Karen Kuak for flying us out there having us work on that, and you know what I'm saying, that was like a beautiful thing, like and it was crazy because Rihanna she never had a record like that at the time, you know what I'm saying, Like, she never had like a strip club record, like a club record, So it was

like that was an all the way new sound. And that's what I try to do, like when I'm producing these records, like I always want to make that record world person remembers where they were at when they heard they ship or what they were like what year was. That's why I can read off these years like that, you know what I'm saying, because I want to you want a person to feel like that, Like yeah, Like I remember, Bro, I was.

I didn't work with Rihanna, Beyonce, Miley, everybody. You know what I'm saying, But like I got that number one, but the person who gave me my first shot and the artists my first artist, Yeah, you know what I'm saying. First number one hot, one hundred. That was crazy in the whole world. Bro, it was only that and the pandemic made the old world freeze, you know what I'm saying. And I was crazy and it was like that beat. I felt like that beat wasn't ever. It wasn't even done,

and that just showed. That just speaks to like Sway Lee how much he's like how much he's an instrument, you know what I'm saying. I thought that beat one done, but I ain't know what I needed, so I just sent it to him like, man, man, this beat hard. I'm gonna ask something else, but just get on there. He was like, man, this shit hard. He did the Black Beat, the hook, send it back. Gucci just came home from jail. I'm like, bro, listen at this song. Sway just sent me, like, bro, get on this joint.

Gucci got on that joint. Boom, Jimmy got on that joint. You know what I'm saying. We had already turned in the album. I was like a last minute joint right up.

so yay. First thing, first day I meet him, he was like, man, I got this song, just needs you to put your drums on that shit cause you know what I'm saying, Like yeah, like I need to put your drums on this ship here, like man, because I fuck with your drums here. Like there's a time in music.

So I respected it because he came to me and said, like, Yo, there's a time of music where, like you know what I'm saying, a producer comes through with a certain sound and a certain frequency and they just need the right artists with the right tone to just cut through on that ship. And right now, you that guy. And this was my first day meeting him, So I'm thinking like there's so many different producers around. I'm thinking, like, man, one of his a and I probably just flew me

up here. He ain't gonna know who I am for real, like you know what I'm saying. But when he said that, I was like, damn, that's hard. So I'm like, all right, Bet, you know what I'm saying. So I was really more focused on, like I really wanted him to get on like some these beats that we had. But then like he played Mercy and he played it with no drums, and I was like, Damn, this shit is hard. You

know what I'm saying, This shit is a hit. Bro, Like, all right, Bet, he let me hear the one with drums. He was like, I like this version, but I feel like this version is kind of like doing the drums that you do. Like, so I just want you to go in and do you know what I'm saying, put your touch on it. So I'm like, all right, Bet did some drums on that. And the next thing, you know, like he took it to the radio with another song Boom went on the radio. That shit just went up.

I was like, damn. I was like, At the same time, no life came out same time, turning on the lights, got on the radio, same time. Juicy J just put out bands make a dance. So it was like all this shit just happening like quick. You know what I'm saying. I'm like, man, you did this. It's twenty twelve. I did the bare minimum with these drums. But it's like that yeah effect, Like you know what I'm saying, like that, Yeah heavy shook that ship.

I'm like, what the hell he talking about? He did a set up in the kitchen, Like I'm like, send it to me, un so boom he sent me. He sent me the song man. I heard that ship, I was like, all I saw was Magic City d o A Onnest. I'm like, bro, I already know what to do with I was out of town. I was in LA. I was like, I know what to do with this. I called him. I'm like, hey, we got hit. I'm like, as soon as I get back to Atlanta, it's gonna

be the biggest song in the strip club. Like, bro, I promise, you know what I'm saying, Boom, next thing, you know, go back to Atlanta playing the joint strip clubs, shit go up and it was just juicy on there. You know what I'm saying. And then I played it for a couple more people. We were trying to figure out who we wanted to get on there. He had set Wayne. Wayne got on there, Two changs got on there. The rest was history. RE released it on my mixtape and then boom.

what I'm saying. So my boy Mars had sent me a couple of options, and I was like, yo, man, this beat hard, like hey, do this and that on the I'm on the phone with him telling them different edits to make d and then next thing you know, Mars sent me over to beat. I'm in the studio with Miley. There's two people from Coldplay right here. They had pulled up just to like hear different beats, you

know what I'm saying. And then I heard Miley said ad lib so that and that Beach is Better as an ad lib that I took from like Miley session and put like an effect on it and put it on this beat that Mars has sent. Then I sent it the Big Sean like, bro, this this gotta be the one, Like you know what I'm saying. We put the extra juice on this one, like this gotta be

the one. So I never heard from Big Sean. Then the next week I had the session with Hole, so I was locked in with whole the whole week and then boom, so I'm playing on different beats and my man Ryan Press was like he bro playing that Big Sean. I'm like, man, I can't do that the Big Seane bro like, yeah, he's gonna fuck with that. He was like, Bro, he was like, man, just playing for him, like you know what I'm saying, Like at the end of the day,

you don't ever know, like playing for him. I was like, man, y'all, I got this beat, that idea for Big Sean, but I'm waiting to hear back from him, you know what I'm saying. He was like, oh, yeah, let me hear. So I played the beat. He heard that shit. He was like, yo, yo, so what Big Sean say. I was like, man, I ain't heard nothing, you know what I'm saying. He was like, Yo, We're gonna get Big Sean seven business days, you know what I'm saying. I was like, I'm like, all right, say last you know

what I'm saying. And so I have reached out to Sean. I was like, man, bro, what we're gonna do with with the tender team? He was like, no, I had I had this other version that I like. I was like, oh, for Rel was all right, bet. I was like, that's all my brother, that's my areas brother. You know what I'm saying. Too. Yeah sure, so yeah, for sure, you know what I'm saying. So next thing, you know, like hope I got on that beach is better. I remember Cala had called me like yo yo, Hove did a

record on that one beat you left him. He was like, man, I'm trying to get him to put a second verse on him, like this ship is going to be a problem. And then everybody kept I will hear about it. It was like, you know what I'm saying, I would hear about this record. They finally said it's going on the album. So then boom whole It's crazy because Whole rock with his engineer like the long way, like Guru, you know what I'm saying, Guru a goat. But at this time

I'm trying to like really stamp that sound. Like so I don't want anybody to like mix any any records of mine because you know what I'm saying, I had this injury there that I worked with Jason Joshua, and you know what I'm saying, Like with him, it was like we already went through a thousand songs already and we didn't already he like we got this sound, now, we got our product supply chain going. So now it's like, yo, Big John, man, I need I need my man to

mix the record. Big John like, look, Mike, this ain't the time to be difficult. Man, like this whole man like just send the files, like, don't don't try to be difficult. I was like, broh, listen, I'm not trying to be difficult, you know what I'm saying at all, Like if hole fuck with guru like Google mixed the vocals that my man mixed the beat. I just need to beat the sound how it's supposed to sound like, you know what I'm saying. So he like, man, I'll

high light him. I see what's up. So boom. Finally they say like okay, cool, go ahead and do it. Boom. We mixed the beat, you know what I'm saying. They send the vocals over that's mixed, We put it with it, they send it back. They're like, yo, man, this shit is crazy. You know what I'm saying. So next thing, you know, they ended up reaching out to my man, Jason. Jason ended up mixing a couple more songs on the album.

That shit ended up playing out. You know what I'm saying right up, which is better.

like you know what I'm saying. I feel like every song is always different because sometimes like like with a super producer, right to me, like a super producer is like somebody who could be like hands on or hands off with the record, you know what I'm saying, and go through the whole process. Like you can make the beat, you can write the lyrics, you can engineer, you know

what I'm saying. You can mix the song, or you can be hands off and get the right engineer to mix it, or get the right person to make the beat, or get the right person to do the melodies, and get the right person to do the drums. Or get and be able to communicate with the engineer and see it all the way through. You can't even communicate with the engineer if you don't understand what revert delay. You

know what I'm saying. All that kind of stuff is, you know what I'm saying, like verify or you know what I'm saying, the tempo or speeding it up a couple of bpms. All that kind of language is like you can't even communicate or even know what you're looking for right there if you don't even if you're not if you're not that you know what I'm saying. But like I feel like with a super producer is automatic,

you know what I'm saying. You can communicate with anybody from like I said, the musician in the room to the drummer, to the person that's on the beat machine, to the songwriters to the artists and knowing like put this artist with this artist because this is rare, and like you know what I'm saying, this is going like Midas Cyrus whiskyly from Juicy Jay is like they don't see Midy Syris rapping, you know what I'm saying, Like they don't even know who to go to get to

write a rap for Miley Cyrus's song or you know what I'm saying, who to get to get that beat and make it super futurist, you know what I'm saying. So it's like being hands on her, hands off of that shit, like cause like black Beaters, Like I made that beat quick, you know what I'm saying, Send it right this way, booms, you know what I'm saying. So it's like it's different processes on producing every song, like and you got different ways, Like the new joint I

just did with Sexy Red, perfect match. That was a song that she already had in her head, so she just went in. She she wrapped it a cappella and now I made a beat around it right there. You know what I'm saying. At the studio, just doing your process and just knowing, like I'm big on a product supply chain. Now that's what I picked up over these years. It's like just looking at everything like the product supply chain,

raw material supplier, manufacturer, distributor, retail consumer. You know what I'm saying, and knowing that I need to live I like perfect it and I live over here in the

left space, like in the raw material supplier manufacturer. So sometimes I'm the raw material where I might make the beat and then it might go to the studio and be the supplier and bring that beat, or sometime the artist might be the raw material and like Sexy Red, like have this song that she wraps a capella and then she supplies that and then I make the beat around it and then add different features on it. She added two more features on there, and you know what

I'm saying. So, and then you have certain processes where it's like I got a whole production team, you know what I'm saying, where it's like I pull up on P Nasty or I pull up on Mars. I'm like, bro, I hear this person on this beat, and then I'm the supplier. I'm taking this raw material. I'm the supplier and I'm bringing it to this and we're manufacturing something right here. And like like move that dope was like

a sound like that. It was just like like different pieces, like you know what I'm saying, Like it was like Future laid the hook and then I had an old Future verse, you know what I'm saying, And it was like we were trying to wrap up, honest, so I had this Future hook on this one beat, and then p Nasty had a hook on the same beat that he was that he was writing for Shrimp. That's not popping bottles? Don't it make you feel good? Like him?

And Shrim wrote that. So like Boom I was like, man, this is sound hard under this one hook that Future did on the same beat. Pee, you know what I'm saying. So Boom took that made that the ad libs took this old Future verse, put it right here. Let Pharrell here. Pharrell like, oh shit, bro, I gotta get on this. I'm like, all right, bet Boom ad Forrell on here. I'm not even telling Future the whole time, Like you know what I'm saying, Like add Forrel on this joint

the next thing. I'm not next thing I know. I'm like, yo, bro, man see it. Push your ad verse on here. You know what I'm saying. Push your get on their body Forrell, send another verse back, like y'all man, how to go harder? You know what I'm saying, Push you on two phrases. But I like parts of Pharrell's first verse. So Boom I took parts of pharrell first verse in the second verse and piece that shit together and send it and I sent it to Forrell and I'm thinking he heard it.

I'm thinking like, cause he gave me the thumbs up, so I thought he heard it. Man, he ain't even hear it. So when the song came out, he was like like, what the hell? Like what is this?

I about to start this home. I want to just pull up on you early and start the album early. So boy, we pulled up at the crib. Man listen to a bunch of beats, grabbed a bunch of beats. I'm like, man, damn, I hope I miss his next album with whatever he talking about. And then he just had this one week where he just locked in and then he did Humble, he did DNA, and he did XXX, and he sent me the He sent me like videos on his phone. I'm like, damn, man, it ain't going crazy.

I can't wait to get to LA. Went to LA. I couldn't even wrap my mind around like XXX. Humble was like an automatic banger like XXX. I couldn't wrap my mind around in a good way. I was fucked up. It was like that innovational process or stage, like you know what I'm saying. DNA. I was like, Yo, this is a single right here, like this, how you come back and just go crazy? Like and me and him were like Dad sat on that and he was telling me like Humble. He was like, man, Bro, I'm I'm

gonna let you get Humble for Ransom too. I'm like, hell no, like Humble like him, Humble was a banger too. He was like, yeah, but it just don't fit my album. I'm like, Bro, you tripping, bro, like but I take it, but like you tripping, like you know what I'm saying. And then he was like, man, I think that's the one. I'm gonna let you know, but I think that's the one gonna let you get for your album. I was like, all right, bet so. Then I left the city. I

was like, bron, I was telling my boys. I was like, man, Kendrick got this hard ass song.

hell of a rapper. They already know that, but they gonna get that regardless. Yeah yeah, and like he dropped that Humble, That shit just exploded. He dropped. He shot that crazy video. She just went crazy.

be like single ladies level. This gotta be like you know what I'm saying, It's gotta be like up there. So I was in the car with them and I was like, man, bro, I was just playing beats. I'm like, man, we need to make the next man female anthem. Bro, Like, man, we gotta make we gotta go single ladies level. Yeah, I was like, man, we gotta just turn like we gotta turn the females up, like bro Like, Man, we

gotta do. I was just throwing that out there, and then swe was just like nahn for real, y'all can write a female joint. Y'all ain't even got to think about who is Forger's, but like what'll be like a chant like they just looking for, like that that sweat that y'all coming with, cause it's like y'all different, like you know what I'm saying, y'all coming in a different pockets. So Man Sway started freestyling to the beat and then next thing you know, I heard him say, okay, lady,

and now let me get the information. I'm like what you just said. And he was like he was like okay, lady, you know, let's get it in for I'm like bruh. I turned out, pulled out the voice notes. He rapping that shit. And then next thing you know, and Jimmy came to the studio. He heard him. Jimmy went in the booth, laid some shit down, and I was like, that's all y'all got to do. Don't even worry about making it the song or nothing like boom, So I

took that that reference vocal. We started working on some other shit, and I sent like four records of Beyonce and then I had went to I had went to a Laker game and like Brian was playing. You know what I'm saying. This before he was on the Lakers. You know what I'm saying, he was playing with Cleveland. But I saw Brian playing out running the Rich and Rich had already put together the commercial that I did for Brian in twenty thirteen with the Nike commercial, so

boring saw Rich. We staying at the same hotel. He was like, man, come get some dinner. You know what I'm saying. After the game, I'm all right, bet So he had called me later and then I was down there eating with them, him, Brian, everybody, the team, and then next thing you know, hoven Be just pulled up, you know what I'm saying out of nowhere. Then everybody down there were just passing the os, just listening to Ship. And then next thing you know, b was like, yo,

I like one of those ideas you sent me. I was like, for real, And then I was like which one. She was like, man, that formation. I was like, man, I was hoping that, you know what I'm saying. She was like yeah, yeah, Like I fuck with that, Like I'm gonna write some stuff too. I'm gonna go in do some verses and this and that this, And now I was like, oh yeah, like that's hard. So next thing, you know, I go to New York licking with her for like a week, and then we just putting the

final touches on that. But now she has like a real record, like she just took the okay, ladies, now let's get information. She took like certain like like a little line or two that she that she got inspired by and then wrote her verses and now it was like a whole record about like not only female ampowerment, but like black empowerment, her people empowerment, her family empowerment. Like you know what I'm saying. She just yeah, it's

just like some boss up female viobes. And then so we just stayed up there in New York and meet her plus her engineer, you know what I'm saying, and we just put like the final touches on the record or whatnot. And next thing, you know, like bro, we get formation. That's crazy.

and showed that range. Quincy like this man, he had such a vision I feel like as a producer, as a as a as like a dope producer, like you you got the vision, You're able to see the unseen.

So like Quincy was like real dope at that from from my understanding, I don't really know him like that, but I ain't never really worked with him or met him, but just like like studying his projects, like and he knew how to be real strict and he knew how to make that ship cut through, like you know what I'm saying any producer that does that, like for real, Like you know what I'm saying, Timbo, Kanye, you know what I'm saying, Like like then you got other producers too,

like like Mark Ronson and yeah, you are all kind of different people, quick man. It's yeah, I don't even know why you ask that. Shout out to all of them. Shout out to all the producers that's changing the game. That's original, and that's you know what I'm saying, doing their own thing, that's out of pocket. Childhood crush, childhood crush. I had a lot of them, you know what I'm saying.