The fact that you put up a real, coming up producer with Mike WiLL, the GOAT, then you've
got me on the phone with another artist.
They don't even know each other.
Shout out, HP.
Y'all did your thing with this production.
When it comes to making music, collaboration is key.
And in the digital world, technology can make all the difference.
That's how Genius Home Studio started.
We wanted to give everyone the chance to make something special.
It started with a sound pack.
We sourced drums and loops and built the Genius Home Studio soundboard.
We also decided to make it interesting.
One rising beat maker would get a chance to workshop their beat with super producer, Mike
WiLL Made-It.
Kelley Janae called in from Nashville, Tennessee, to talk to Mike in Atlanta.
And the beat started to evolve.
Well, good morning, Mike Will.
How are you doing?
What it do, what it do?
So, after I got in the Genius Home Studio pack, I went through some of the loops and
this particular medallion loop really stood out to me.
I knew that I wanted to throw in my guitars since I'm a guitar player, so I just played
like a phrase and reversed it.
What would it sound like if the intro came in as a verse?
Just go straight in?
Yeah, if it comes straight in.
And then, how you got the intro right now?
If that started out verse one.
The beat sounds good, though.
Thank you.
I'm just giving you all the options.
Move the kick and the 808 to 35.
Pause the clap, too.
And the crash.
My bad if I'm fucking up your beat.
You're not.
I want to know if there's anything or any lessons that you've learned, just over the
years, that you could share with somebody like me, there's up and coming.
Don't let nobody tell you what you can or what you can't do.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, sometimes you have a vision in your head and you have a goal in your head that
you want to get accomplished.
And a person might not be able to understand it until you make it a proof of concept, until
you bring it to life.
Next, we had to add some lyrics.
Cantrell is a rising rapper from Georgia.
So it seemed only right to pair him with the hottest in the South.
Offset.
She did a thing, dog, Kelley Janae.
It was good before, you know what I'm saying?
Mike took it up a level.
That was your first time working with her, right?
Yeah.
I had never heard of her.
That's what's crazy about all this.
I had never heard of her.
She probably had never heard of me.
Once I heard the drum line and the beat and I listened to the cadence that he put on the
beat, it's hard.
I feel like he just needs a little exposure.
I don't think for me, heart bent, ice cold, chilli is like a dismissal.
It's more like, now I know who I am.
I remember who I am.
You're saying that bars were keeping a flow there for you, so you ain't losing the people.
I usually write, you know what I'm saying?
Like, I'm a pen to pad, fingers to phone type dude usually, but this shit, brother being
locked in, I been just getting real comfortable, just sitting there with the mic and figuring
it out like that.
You don't never sound like you're getting too comfortable.
So, how do you keep that where you're at?
Just-
Because in the game we in now, you can't do that no more.
Right?
It's a thousand people coming up.
So, I can never be content because you have somebody to question it that just turned 14
because they heard I don't want to name nobody else.
There's other people doing that flow.
There's so many people that, when you get in front of them, they try to not to respect
the work you put in.
Don't even worry about that, though.
That's just like, you've got to just stick to your craft and do it.
Maybe that person will figure it out in the next couple months when you on TV.
Don't nobody care till you get on.
Finally, it was time to add some visuals.
First we asked the NaeNae twins to choreograph a dance.
When we first heard the song by Cantrell, we was like, oh my gosh, this flow is so dope.
We had to hop on it.
The song kind of gave us like, an Atlanta vibe.
So, we were just trying to incorporate technical moves, but also at the same time, trying to
make it like fun and turnt up.
Then, we reached out to Glassface who's directed videos for Lil Yachty and Tobi Lou, amongst
many others.
We wanted to see how he could take it up another level.
After I'd gone on their TikTok, I saw they had this like tie-dye jumpsuit look that they
used.
So, I asked them to bring one just solid color outfit and then bring that tie-dye look.
Really, I've just been wanting to use this paint effect on something.
Basically what we did is we shot it one time, didn't move the camera at all.
Just kept them in the same exact spot.
Shot the lead in to the dance move.
And then I was just like, pause right here, had them run inside and change.
And then we compared it to the original frame and just made sure they were exactly in the
same spot.
Basically, the way this effect works is there's a 3D model of a person added into the scene.
And then, in Blender, the paint effect is added on top of those.
So, it's basically erasing the video and replacing it with the paint effect on top of that.
The whole experience was amazing to me.
Usually when we're in that type of setting or on set like that, we're usually behind an
artist.
That was our first time where we were like, being the artists on set.
Right.
So, it was like a magical moment for us.
Watch how each part of the song came to life and listen to Ice Cold Chilli in full on homestudio.genius.com.