HILLARY: Two of Drake’s biggest songs in 2018
have been heavily influenced by New Orleans bounce,
and these songs wouldn’t be what they are without the producer, BlaqNmilD.
BLAQNMILD: We love to take R&B music and we love to put it with a bounce beat.
We love to mix it with the Triggaman.
HILLARY: In 1986, The Showboys released “Drag Rap (Trigger Man),”
which sampled the detective show, “Dragnet.”
“Trigger Man's" drum pattern is the key to New Orleans bounce.
We’ll get to its importance on “Nice For What” in a minute but first, let’s look at what Blaqnmild
did with “In My Feelings.”
BLAQNMILD: The energy on “In My Feelings” when I first got it,
I ain’t think it was gonna be what it turned out to be. I ain't gon lie.
When I first got the record, it sounded like this.
BLAQNMILD: It didn’t have a lot of beat in it and it was very slow.
The record was slow.
The tempo and the energy is a little down from “Nice For What.”
Me and Drake decided to speed it up together.
The Magnolia Shorty sample come from a record that me and Shorty did.
It was on top of a Jadakiss and Jasmine Sullivan record called, “Smoking Gun.”
BLAQNMILD: Before she died, she was one of a kind only one that's gonna ever have that sound.
If you listen to the record, to what Drake is saying,
the Magnolia Shorty sample fits right there.
He says, “Kiki, do you love me?”
She come back, “You the only one I love!”
That just fitted perfect.
BLAQNMILD: This beat right here is called “That beat.”
BLAQNMILD: It’s like a bounce loop that we have.
It’s like different bounce elements mixed together to make that beat.
You’ll hear that beat right there under a lot of bounce music right there.
BIG FREEDIA: This next song I got, it's called Gin In My System.
BLAQNMILD: That breakdown part, right before the Wayne comes in, he has a blank spot right there.
I don’t know why that was blank.
That for some reason is empty on some of the versions.
I don’t know if that was a mistake that they did or whatever when they put the record
out but it was originally…
Drake was like, “It would have been nice to have Wayne on this one.”
I kind of surprised him with that or whatever.
I said, “You know what, since he spoke about it, let me go ahead and yes Lord it right quick.
Found some Wayne vocals on the internet.
The claps came in right on Drake’s verse and I added a little scratches.
HILLARY: “In My Feelings” is Drake & BlaqNmilD’s second collaboration,
and its rise up the charts suggest it’s probably the bigger hit.
BLAQNMILD: 40 told me instantly he felt like it was gonna be bigger than “Nice For What.”
In my mind I’m like, “40 alright, I hear you.”
HILLARY: And even though “Nice For What” doesn’t have a viral dance challenge,
the fans loved it so much that it seemed like the world was ready for more NOLA bounce.
BLAQNMILD: Once we heard the Big Freedia up in there already that they had in there,
once they had the Lauryn Hill sample up in there, that was right at home man.
That’s what we do.
We took it back to the studio with us or whatever.
We worked on it.
Before he says the angles part, you hear him say, “Gotta make that ass jump.”
With the bounce music, I came in.
They had other pioneers, DJ Duck and DJ Mannie Fresh and other DJ’s or whatever was always mixing.
HILLARY: Mannie Fresh produced one of the first bounce hits to break nationally,
Juvenile's "Back That Azz Up" in 1999.
It peaked at No. 19 on Billboard's Hot 100.
BLAQNMILD: But when I came in the game, I kind of sped the tempo up.
I started doing a little extra to the bounce music.
I was chopping the vocals up.
This what it really sounds like.
HILLARY: You can thank Bounce pioneers like Magnolia Shorty, BlaqNmilD and New Orleans
in general for Drake’s “In My Feelings.”
And they’ve got one question.
BLAQNMILD: Kiki, do you love me?
Are you riding?
I didn’t do my dance challenge yet.
They ain’t ready for it.