I never thought there was a possibility of a Grammy.
And, yeah, we all kind of lost our minds.
I don't think anyone expected that.
I’m Conor.
I’m Ivan.
We are Brasstracks.
We’re gonna show you how we made Chance The Rapper’s “No Problem”
Yeah, we've been making music for, what, two years?
And everything we've ever put out, we get so many people saying that Chance the Rapper
should get on it and one day I tweeted that
exact thing.
He retweeted it.
Then he followed us.
So we DM'd him.
We played it for Chance when it was very demo'y and that was the one that he gravitated towards
most.
It was kind of like inspired by old Kanye sampling kind of stuff, you know what I mean?
He's used choirs in so many instances and we knew that we wanted to do something similar.
And we knew that we wouldn't get the sound that we wanted just by recording a choir.
It's not just about that.
It's about manipulation of those instruments.
Just to clarify, and get rid of any lingering misconstruments - there are no samples other
than what we recorded ourselves in this song.
I’m gonna take out Chance for a second.
Sorry Chance.
The choirs, we recorded like four versions of every choir so it sounded like sixteen
people everytime that we did it.
And then, we took those, and we pitched those up and octave and down an octave.
Everything got pitched a little bit, so it would sound like a sample.
"Herefore, I will speak noble things."
They say that three times and then "All the words in my mouth are righteous."
So, that is pitched up six semitones, I believe.
That’s stupid!
Stupid.
She can sing.
My god.
There's a mixture of programmed and live drums in here, but the way the mix went afterwards,
you can't hear the live drums too well.
But it just adds to it like a tiny bit.
it's not that crazy.
A kick here.
The tambourine.
Live drums.
Snare.
808 snare.
Shaker.
Some programmed hats.
Two congos.
There are no plugins on our original production.
Yeah only whatever is in Ableton. Only built in Ableton plugins
You don't have to buy any plugins to be a producer.
That shit is stupid.
Bassline is all live.
This a $600 bass.
It is not a nice bass.
No, it is a nice bass.
It's a Michael Tobias designed bass.
But, further going into the fact that you do not need to have ridiculously nice expensive
things to make music.
We got some auxiliary organ parts from a friend who was touring with Bilal.
So he sent us some really great organ parts.
They're tucked into the mix.
It does not sound like an organ at all, when you solo it.
But, when you put it in the mix... it actually ends up sounding like an organ.
Now there's another organ part that Jake recorded that's the real deal.
That's James Frances who's playing piano.
He's just like an absolute monster.
Unfortunately, that part didn't make it.
We were sad.
But, he killed it… so I’ll take that out.
So when the song was done, the main name they were talking about was André 3000 being the
guest feature on this.
Fast forward like two months, we get a call from Nat, our manager.
and it's like, "Yo.
I'm gonna send you this link.
You can only listen to it one time, because it expires after you listen to it once."
So, we listened to it on my phone and it was Chance and 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne, and we
were like 'Whoa!
Total opposite direction of what we thought this was gonna go!'
But it made so much sense.
Anything to add, con-con?
No.
I dont think so.
It’s a gospel hip-hop beat.It’s a gospel hip-hop beat, circa Kanye Late Registration