(thumping hip-hop music)
- What's necessary to make a crazy beat,
a dope beat, a good beat, a hit beat,
it's just the vibe, you know what I'm sayin'?
Every song, it's a different key element
to different songs and different producers that they have,
you know what I'm sayin'?
Like, it might be a flute, it might be a 808,
it might be a clap, it might be a snare,
so it is gonna very, but I just say, like,
when it's time to make a hit beat,
you just gotta have that vibe.
I'm JetsonMade and you watching Making.
Me and DaBaby really liked up through a mutual,
a cameraman named Savani, you know what I mean?
Savani was like real instrumental in like
help him building up the scene
in the Carolinas at the time, so.
We were tryin' to expand out of South Carolina
'cause I then had South Carolina on lock,
you know what I'm sayin'?
Musically, so, we was like, man,
we need to tap in with whoever big in North Carolina,
and at the time, DaBaby was the only rapper who was big
beside J. Cole, you know what I'm sayin'?
He was the only big, he was the biggest upcoming rapper, so,
Savani was just like, man, write with him.
So I'm like, all right, cool, let's do it.
It was time for that new hit, like,
you don't really wanna come in the game as a new artist
and be sounding old, you get what I'm sayin'?
So, I just went in there with a mentality like,
okay, he need that Jetson, you feel me?
And I was like, this is my time to sh,
you know what I'm sayin'?
To really show, like, what I'm really on.
So, I knew it was for him 'cause we made it together,
to be honest, you know what I'm sayin'?
Like, he sent me over and I really cooked it up in his face.
And creating "Sug," man, that was a quick beat.
And that was like 10 minutes, I think.
Bro was like texting me, you know what I mean?
So, I know it was one part of, I did,
I put one 808 in it and he was like,
man, nah, take that out.
But then after that, I took it out
and added a couple more little things,
Poo added a couple more little things
and we was lit, kinda like 10 minutes, 10, 15 minutes.
So, it really wasn't, it was kinda like a no-brainer beat,
he was just there and I cooked it up.
I realized "Sug" was a hit when,
after it was recorded, like,
right after we listened to it about 20 times.
So, that's when I knew it was a hit.
DaBaby first reaction to "Sug"
was just like everybody else's reaction in the room,
it was like, yup, we got one.
I made "Bop" at the time while I was like,
okay, I'm gonna pipe in there,
I want everything to be pipin'.
I was like, I want a whole new drip,
you get what I'm sayin'?
I always like to elevate, so when I did "Bop,"
it was just, it'd be times when I'd just come in
at the crib and I'd make 15 to 20 beats in a day
just to have beats, you know what I mean?
Everybody be blowin' me up, whatever, whatever.
So, I just ended up sendin' 'em like 30 beats one day
and he sent me "Bop" bit.
I realized "Bop" was a hit soon as I heard it, you feel me?
Like, as soon as I heard it, I was like, this the next one.
I started really producing seriously when I was 12.
That was when I was on the computer, you know what I mean?
12, I started on Footyloops,
then when I turned 14, for Christmas-
Oh lord, this is amazing!
My folks bought me my first Mac,
so I switched over to Garage Band
and they Elijit for Coupled it couple of years, so.
My interest for music initially came from
just being around it so much
and actually goin' to the studio, you know what I'm sayin'?
For my first time.
That's what like really gave me my interest in makin' beats.
But musically, I just always been in church,
I always been around music, I always loved music.
So it was kinda natural, like,
my mama told me when she was pregnant with me,
she used to sing in the shower with me,
so I always been into music,
like, it's just how I was born.
Growin' up in church, like,
it helped me develop my ear, you know what I'm sayin'?
As far as for like, soulful, you know what I'm sayin'?
Just chords and progressions and stuff like that.
So, when I was in church,
I was playin' the drums every Sunday
and I kinda like was teachin' myself the piano
'til my mom put in my piano lessons for a little while.
So, church definitely helped me out a lot
'cause it gave me that time to be creative and soulful.
When I make beats, I always switch up,
you know what I'm sayin'?
Every 36 months, you know what I mean?
Just because I always elevate
and I'm always on something new.
I had a lot of favorite producers growin' up,
Timbalands, Atoven, you know, I can name.
Brian Leslie was like one of the key people
because it kinda like locked me in visually and musically.
When I started really makin' beats and got serious,
it was like the trap era, you know what I mean?
Like, the heavy trap era,
so that's what everybody wanted to hear.
And I'm a Leo, you know what I'm sayin'?
My sign a Leo, so I'm really like stubborn,
so I ain't goin' for, I'm like,
people like, man, I want mine something like this and this,
I'm like, man, I don't make beats like that,
you get what I'm sayin'?
So, that kind of put me, locked me in the dungeon
even more to just develop my sound even more.
So, just in the beginning, it was just,
you know, it was kinda hard sellin' beats,
you know what I mean?
The moment that inspired me to make the beat for "Sug"
was, for like, my career I always been tryin'
to put myself ahead, so, I just seen the direction
that DaBaby career was goin' in, you feel me?
And I was so tapped in, like,
I just told myself, like, I'm gonna attach myself to this
'cause I know it's gonna be something.
And once I know it was gonna be something big,
well, I could help it become something big,
so I just went in the studio,
I had a hit mentality on my brain.
So I'm like, this the last day I'm here,
I gotta make a hit tonight.
So I went to the studio and that what I did.
Craziest experience that I had was earlier this year,
I was in Paris during Fashion Week,
and I'm in the Uber, I'm like super scared kind of
'cause I'm like, I'm by myself at the time,
so I'm like, man, I'm ridin' through Paris,
I don't know what's goin' on.
And the guy played the radio, and there's "Bop" playin',
and I'm like, wow.
And he really liked singin' in his little accent.
I'm like, wow, like, this is real, you feel what I'm sayin'?
Like, this music connect me
with people all across the globe.
Like, that was one of my times where I was like, wow,
you know what I'm sayin'?
I had to call my mama.
Like, the main thing I took from my experience
with working with DaBaby is, should do you,
you know what I'm sayin'?
Like, you can't really follow up what nobody else doing,
you gotta stick down your path, you get what I'm sayin'?
You gotta continue to work no matter what,
and you gotta realize, like,
the music business is the music business, you feel me?
So you gotta stick down your path.
♪ Go, I want good, good (Oh lord, kissed the baby) ♪
♪ Whatever you want, just do it (Another one) ♪
♪ Huh, I'm a younger, yo ♪
♪ Sug, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪