The energy and the momentum around Dreamville is something that’s just too special.
It’s hard for me to see who can match these guys, honestly.
The fun part was bringing everyone together and saying, “Hey.
Let’s really build a complete body of work.”
And it was really dope to see that it worked.
Dreamville got the juice.
What's really something to appreciate about Dreamville is every artist kind of comes from
their own planet, and just brings this different kind of power to the table.
To be in those sessions every day was super inspiring, super motivating.
I was just trying to work with everyone.
I was hopping from room to room to room, meeting as many people as I could.
To do that for 10 solid days with, you don’t know who’s gonna show up.
You don’t know what’s finna go down.
I really love that kind of mystery.
I like to call it a good Southern-fried beat.
It feels like you want to get in your whip, got subs in your trunk, you want to ride down
blast that shit.
First, I’m gonna play the original sample.
It’s called “I’ll Be Waiting For You,” by The Argo Singers.
You heard that, yeah you heard that.
I heard the sample from Nice Rec.
He came to the Revenge sessions and he had a whole pack of samples.
You know how we usually work.
He’s got samples, I got drums to make it work.
Then he chopped it up into the arrangement.
I put some drums on it, and I wasn’t really feeling what I was doing with it.
Luckily, Pluss was in the room next door.
I just felt like he would definitely do something appropriate.
I put a drum fill in between the two sections of the
samples to kind of serve as like a turn around, or transition from one to the next.
I basically took two different drum breaks and combined them together.
The first drum break was this one.
I thought it was enough of a rhythm but I felt like I could beef it up a bit more.
And so I put another drum break on top.
And this is what it sounded like.
And once those drums hit it became a whole different kind of song.
As we were playing this beat and making it, Cole walked in.
He heard it, was like, “Yeah I wanna fuck with that.”
It was super dope to be the song that Kendrick and Cole reunite on.
I’m big fans of both of them you know, and I know that it’s a historical moment.
There was a lot of respect in the room too.
I don’t think a lot of people would have met up.
At least for me, it was definitely like a, “Oh we’re finally in the room together.
Let’s do it.”
One person in particular I was really impressed with, T-Minus.
Motherfucker crazy.