I love making music.
It’s nothing else I’d wanna do. Like I couldn't picture anything else.
This is like my last option pretty much.
Like making beats.
I mean I grew up playing drums in church.
I always had rhythm.
Everywhere I go I'm always like tapping.
That's how it comes.
With The Martianz they sent a lot of loops so like you get a lot of different vibes when
you cook up with them.
That’s the coolest part about collaborating.
Endless opportunities, so many different vibes that could come from it, you know?
So many minds going together.
It’s so easy ‘cause he could just send me something, and I just hear something and
finish it.
Send it back, and vice versa.
We just keep going.
This was a whole night.
Like I was just trying to get a kit out, like tomorrow.
So I was like, just pressing loop, loop, loop.
Not even paying attention, pretty much.
Just like in the zone.
Just going, going, going.
Loop, loop, loop.
And it just became what it is.
I’m kinda influenced by EDM, like house music and stuff that I listen to a lot.
All those kind of arps and everything, that’s the kind of vibe that I go for all the time.
Okay, so I pretty much started with this, off of Omnisphere.
It’s like a custom little sound that I made on there.
And I added this arp right here.
And then added this arp right here.
Like ear candy.
You know how you usually have eye candy?
I would call it ear candy.
So this one, this brings it all to life.
The melodies are always just like the base.
Like, the whole vibe of the beat.
This melody, the main melody of the song came together, I was just making a loop kit.
So I made probably like 100 loops just over one night.
Sent it over to Smash David, and he just took it from there.
Yung Berg hit me up to make uptempo beats.
And then I hit up Martianz and a couple of other people to send me a pack of loops.
I worked on like, six to eight different loops, and as I was making them I would send them
to OG.
Grab the loop, add some drums, make a simple little beat, and then send it to him and then
he did his thing.
We did like, a good six and that's how this one came about.
I mean I was just playin' the loop.
And as I was playin' it, I mean, I always start with the melody first and since that
was already done, I started adding the hi-hats.
Then after that I added the clap.
Then I had a little rhythm going, so I started adding the percussion.
Which is the little rim in the back.
Then I added the kick.
And once I had that I just gave it a turn up vibe with the 808.
After I had this I just sent it to OG and then he just did his thing.
When I first heard it like, I don't know I just got like this feeling like, just somethin'
about it was just like I know this could definitely be a hit.
When he sent it to me, he had the 808 pattern a little different.
When I got it I was like, for the second half of the hook, I'ma switch it up, so…
And then I knew it needed like a strong synth to like set off the second half of the hook.
So, that's when I added this sound.
But when I heard it I was like, it needs something.
So I went to this plugin called Effectrix and I put a loop on it.
So basically like, I don't know, I guess it gave the beat kind of more character.
It was just missing you know what I'm saying, that piece to complete the puzzle.
That gave it the vibe.
So it was a sound in a VST called Nexus.
It's called a contagious pluck.
It's just a random synth that I just, I don't know.
After we sent him the beat, he sang over that pluck, which I feel like gave it a even stronger
melody and you know what I'm saying, definitely sticks in everybody's head when they hear
it.
I was making music with one of Chris Brown's homies called, his name is Bobby Luv.
We work a lot so we were working on his tape, and then he was like, "I'm about to"
"go to the studio with Brown, send me some beats."
So I sent him some beats, and like, I mean I didn't know if anything was gonna come from
it.
And then he hit me the next day and was like, "Yo, Chris Brown got on like seven out of"
"the ten beats you sent me."
I didn't believe it at all.
When he told me, I didn't believe it.
I was like, there's no paperwork.
I don't believe nothing.
That's not real.
Then when he told me it was for sure and it came out, I mean, we were just blown away.
I was driving.
I was going like a 100 miles per hour with my girl, she was scared as hell.
I was just screaming "Oh, shit!"
"Chris Brown, Kodak, all these people."
It was crazy.
Yeah, like when the song went platinum I had just woken up with my phone blowing up.
This is crazy like, I've gotten a lot of plaques off this one song.
Every time that I hear this beat, I just see those girls like at the water park.
Like it's just lit.
I mean, it's more of a add-on.
We already have platinum plaques so just another one.
It's another milestone.
Just trying to keep going really.