I can make a beat anywhere. I just gotta find the right inspiration, just have it in me.
I’ll make a beat sitting on the toilet, like…
Just like everybody else, Choppa found it on YouTube and he kind of recorded the song
before even reaching out to me, already made a video and all that. By the time he reached
out to me, he probably already had like five million streams on his video. Told me, I changed
his life and he wanted to make sure we did more business.
When I first started making beats, I was putting them on YouTube. I made a beat one time and
it just sounded a certain way. It had a certain sound to it and I noticed it did crazy numbers.
I made another beat like that. It did better numbers.
And then I made a third one, “Shotta Flow,” and it took off.
NLE Choppa: I was really just at home looking for a beat, scrolling on YouTube. I had went
through a few beats and I finally stumbled across Midas’ beat. And it was to be “Shotta
Flow 1” now. And I was just stumbling across it, and I heard it. I heard how the beat dropped
I just heard the feel of the beat, the flow, the tempo. Everything about it, it just hit
me. And I was just imagining how it would flow on a song. I wrote to it, took it to
the studio, and made a hit. And now we look at “Shotta Flow” as the OG.
I usually start with a melody. Kind of get myself inspired on how I'm gonna do the hi-hats
and the claps.
But this alone was enough for me to just go crazy on the beat.
The VST I used for the piano is Purity, one of my favorite plugins. It has everything.
It's the only thing I have to use. I don't really need any plugins other than that. I
was definitely looking for something that bounced, something that would get people moving.
The simplicity of the hi-hats just comes from simplicity of piano for real. Sometimes simple
is better.
I just added a standard clap with a little snare behind it.
It's a TM88 sound.
Inspiration.
The 808s are my favorite part of the beat. I always get creative with the 808s. But on
this one it was like, they're simpler, but I could still have some versatility with it.
When I make the noise higher like that on the 808s, just something about it. It gets
me excited. I know it'll get other people excited. I just feel it, just feel it in my
soul for real. I can't really explain it.
Yeah I think the chopping, the repeat of the 808, I feel like it's a Midas thing. I didn't
start hearing that until after “Shotta Flow.”
For the intro, really simple. All I did was apply Gross Beat, and I half-timed the piano.
I knew it would hit crazy. Just the beat starts off slow, and then it comes in with a crazy
bass and kind of speeds up.
I saw the official video first. I saw the freestyle maybe sometime after that.
NLE Choppa is more of like a harder artist. It’s almost like the beat and him were a
perfect match because of the vibe of it.
Seeing the song hit the Billboard and hit the charts like that, and just do so well,
everyday it inspires me. It helps me see that I’m doing something. You know? Like I’m
making progress, I’m moving forward. If I get discouraged and I go through a block,
I just think to myself like, “I sat here and made a beat that I didn’t even like
and it went crazy.” So I just gotta keep pushing.
Originally I was an artist, rapper. Everybody find your beats on YouTube. You know, it's just
a thing I did and just look for my beats on YouTube, whatever. But I would notice just
wasn't the type of beats I wanted. It wasn't hard enough. They didn't bang enough, so started
making them on my own.