Blueface: Yeah aight!
Scum: It took honestly for Blueface to do with he did with “Dead Locs 1” for me
to actually start taking it serious.
Because, I was doing this shit for so long and ain’t nothing happen.
I didn’t really know what Blueface style was at the time.
I just sent it, and was hoping for another hit.
He made a hit.
Scum: So when I sent you that “Thotiana” beat, what was the first thing you thought
about?
Blueface: Shit...some booty shaking.
You feel me?
Some bussin’ down going on.
Shit man, I was just on some player shit.
You know?
I’m every woman’s fantasy.
Scum: Blueface moved to Santa Clarita.
He moved to my apartment complex and went to my same high school.
This when he was lil’ Blueface, you feel me?
We called that nigga Sticks.
Me and him, we had a football relationship before anything else.
Interviewer: Why were you guys so successful offensively?
Blueface: Uh, we just came out, we practiced real hard during the week.
Scum: So I’ll say a couple years after I got out of high school that’s when me and
him linked musically.
He came to the house one day, and he just knocked on the door and was like, “Ayy bro
send me beats.”
So he said that, I’m thinking like, “Nigga.
I don’t know you to be a rapper.
Like when’d you start rapping?”
Basically.
So he was like, “Man just send me something.”
So I’m like fuck it.
I sent him some throwaways.
Like “Dead Locs” was a old beat.
When he sent it back to me, I had to get used to it.
I’ma be honest, I wasn’t the biggest fan of it until I really started listening to
him and how he actually worked and put his little art together.
And the stuff he was saying was actually dope as hell.
He was pushing it.
He’s going to high schools, performing on top of his Benz and all that shit.
Just fucking his roof up and all that.
So, I was like oh okay he’s serious about it.
So when I sent Blueface “Dead Locs,” I wanna say a couple months after that, that’s
when he hit me asking for another pack, and within that pack was the holy fucking grail
“Thotiana.”
When he sent it back, the first thing that came to mind was, “This nigga is off beat.”
I’m thinking like what mic did this nigga record on, who is his- But then, I started
listening to the shit.
More and more, the shit started to grow on me.
“Thotiana” was like the third beat I made on Logic, having no idea.
That’s why y’all don’t hear my tag in it.
But it still worked out.
The first thing I did on the “Thotiana” beat was the Rhodes.
That gave me no choice but to go the West Coast route, make it a West Coast beat.
And this is where I brought the keys in, now the keys is West Coast that’s...come on
since Dre.
On top of that, that’s when I had the lead.
That’s actually a saxophone, I took some of the highs out, little reverb just to make
it a little wetter.
It’s not the most West Coast sound but it’s damn close to it.
With the three main sounds, it was basically like to fill in the empty spaces.
And that little pause right there, that’s where the Rhodes come in to fill it in.
And then the lead, it was just something that I wanted in the background.
It’s like you’re paying attention to these keys that’s loud as hell then the Rhodes
that’s smooth, then you have this high-pitched sound that just comes and really fills it
in.
It’s like they all compliment each other.
The drums is just cake from there.
So once I get the main sounds down, I come in with my 808, my baby.
So after the bass, I did the kicks.
I basically followed the bassline.
Simple, the better.
Especially for him, knowing what type of artist he was.
The next sound that I used was the claps.
But the main sound that brought it all together, believe it or not, was the simplest sound
was the open hats.
But when I do it with the 808s I think this is what really got them going crazy.
And this was the rimshot.
This whole beat has eight sounds, the rimshot was the last sound.
This is basically the song.
All those artists jumping on the remix was dope as hell.
I liked the Blueface & YG one, because those is two ratchet motherfuckers.
And then once Cardi B got on it, I was like “Oh shit.”
Like it’s bigger than what the fuck I really think it is.
We got Desiigner, we got Young M.A., we got Tyga dissing Soulja Boy.
I’m like, “God damn!”
Scum: Who did the best remix you think?
Blueface: Uh, shit.
Well the one with Cardi and YG is probably the best overall but the Young M.A. one was
pretty hard too.
Scum: It opened a lot of doors for me.
Blueface, he’s only gonna get bigger I feel like.
And now, me and him, we’re under the same management and we’re actually gonna be a
team team.
It wouldn’t make sense to do it with nobody else.
We Shaq and Kobe.
Can I give y’all a sneak peek of the “Thotiana Pt. 2?”
Alright, I ain’t gon’ do too much though.