The day that I made this beat right here I was in L.A. for two and a half weeks doing
16 hour sessions everyday.
So I started making a beat. I'm like I'm gonna give another beat to Skies.
As soon as I made it, Skies is just like, "Bro this shit's crazy like instantly."
He sent me a text message.
He's like "Bro, you got one" and then the engineer hit me and she's like, "Yo this is crazy."
It just happened to be the one.
Internet producers do everything ourselves.
We design our own graphics.
We drop whatever beats we want.
We kind of develop the industry because all of the sounds that we make … The drum kits
the industry producers get, the sounds and everything all comes from the Internet so,
we're like the first people to ride the wave.
I started selling beats because I needed money.
I dropped out of the seventh grade.
My mom had cancer.
We’ve been poor our whole life, that type shit.
I had to find ways to pay her bills.
I was making half a million dollars online a year, selling beats through "type beats."
That was the first dollar I ever had, never had a job, never had nothing.
The fact that the internet made that possible for me selling beats regardless of if I was
gonna get placements or not is just crazy.
The most important thing when making a beat is just feeling, like a vibe or a groove or
something, like a bounce.
When I made the beat, pretty much I was just going through the kits I got from my website,
WavSupply and finding melodies and different loops and shit like that to work with and
I came across this melody right here.
I noticed it was too simple so what I wanted to do at that point was find something that
adds some bounce to it.
So I pulled up the same sample and reversed it.
And I mean, that's cool but whatever I did then, it needs more bounce, especially if
I'm just gonna add drums on top of this.
I use this plugin, Filter Freak by Soundtoys a lot, whenever I'm trying to establish bounce
or a feeling in a certain melody or whatever.
I use the preset Stepped Up Suite.
It just adds something different to it.
So that together with the actual melody, with the effect and everything put on it …
What I normally do after I do the melody is straight 808 because it's still a melodic
instrument. I just normally follow the pattern of the original melody.
I didn't use no effects.
I didn't put nothing, no compressors.
I just keep it pretty bare.
It’s all in... the actual sound.
The kick pretty much hits on a lot of the same notes the 808 does but I have the 808
kinda stuttering on certain parts that the kick isn't and the kick is stuttering on certain
parts that the 808 isn't.
So like, together…
And then the hi-hats…
I used the MIDI kit from our site that Nick Mira and I literally just dropped the MIDI
in there.
It just worked, you know what I mean?
Who am I to say no?
At that point, I felt like it needed more bounce, so I added this last thing, just a
simple hi-hat.
Then, the whole beat together …
People over complicate beats, most of the time.
The most simple beats are the ones that work cause it gives the artist the room to get
in there and do whatever they want to do.
Being in the studio with Skies, what makes him fun is the fact that you know a lot
of artists will just get in there and make music just for the sake of making music.
They don't care what the beat is or whatever like that.
But he's very particular in what he does and he wants everything he touches to be great
in some type of way.
I really respect that from him.
Of his whole album, this is probably Skies' most energetic track.
You know what I mean?
It's a good song to open up a show with.
A good song to open up his album with.
I'm just glad I was a part of it.
There’s no favorite lines from the song.
He did say, “Shittin’ on these haters, you could say I'm constipated,” which doesn't
make sense but alright dog.
100% Skies.
Do your thing boy.