I feel like what me and Baby are doing right now is pioneering the Carolinas.
Me coming from South Carolina, I’m pioneering the sound.
Baby coming from North Carolina, he’s pioneering the image and he’s showing you what you
need to do coming from where we coming from.
We don’t have any like, big outlets supporting us.
We kinda gotta grind times 10 to get into these type of positions so, we like
the face of Carolina right now.
Production started with me just being in church honestly.
Just seeing how the organ player can just change up the chord progression, and just
seeing the people’s reaction to it.
That’s what drew me into wanting to actually make music.
The first image I gravitated towards was the drums.
I think I started just playing after church a little bit and then they just let me start
playing during service.
Me and Baby relationship started through the internet.
He catching wind of what I got going on, I’m catching wind of what he got going on and
he just reached out.
When we were in the process of finishing up 'Baby on Baby' the tape, pretty much all the
songs that we had did were kinda like, intricate.
As far as beat, production-wise.
I was like you know what?
I got Baby to get on my type style.
I was like, I gotta get one to cater to his type fans.
I was gon’ make a simple banger.
Like that was my goal.
The first thing that I pulled up was Purity.
I like using Purity, it’s like a lot of simple sounds.
I just started with the chords.
I use this sound a lot.
It’s just pretty dry.
It’s not too much reverb on it.
So I just wanted like a pluck almost.
It sound like ‘Jaws.’
When we was in the studio we said that.
We was like, “It sound like ‘Jaws’.”
Once I did that, I was like I’m not gonna really add any instruments into it because
I’m like it already got the suspense.
Usually you would have to add a lot of layers to get that feeling but it was just like one
sound brought it.
After that, I just added the claps.
This is actually one of my claps, like it’s extra tight.
After I added the claps, I put the 808 in it.
Those heavy-hitting 808s kinda compliment my instruments.
That part really like turned it up, honestly.
There’s one more 808 change I put in it too.
That’s like one of my signature things.
In every one of my beats I switch up the 808.
I just like to give it different sauce.
I add the hi-hats last.
I originally had them like this the whole way.
Once I passed my laptop to Pooh he juiced ‘em up.
He like the hi-hat God kinda.
After he switched up the hi-hats.
He added two percs.
I don’t know what that is, like an open hi-hat?
So it kinda sounded like this.
Subtle.
And that’s...I think that’s out of a Nick Mira pack, honestly.
Shout out Nick Mira.
And then a perc towards the end.
Just gives it a little bit of flavor.
So along with the hi-hats and the percs, Pooh added these little shakers.
They come every two bars.
When it comes in, it kinda hit your ear a little bit different.
But you won’t even realize it, but it’s there.
I think with the rimshots, I usually put ‘em right here in all my beats.
I think, honestly when I arranged it I put it in the wrong place.
And it just kinda sounded better, but it was too open.
So I kinda built it up.
Then after that it was just kinda like, he was satisfied, I was satisfied.
Baby was really on us.
He was like, “Come on Jet.
I’m ready.”
I was like, “Bruh I gotta arrange the beat first.”
So I hurried up and put everything together.
I put the tags on there.
Me and Baby kinda like the same.
Like, I don’t like nobody really telling me what to do and he don’t like nobody telling
him what to do.
I was like, “Bruh, you gotta say ‘Yeah, yeah.’”
So he just kept saying different stuff, “Yeah, yeah.”
When I put that in there I swear to God everybody was going crazy!
When I first started producing, I was trying to make trap beats and give them to trap rappers
but they weren’t as hard as the 808 Mafias and the Lex Lugers.
So I just realized that’s not my lane.
I’ma give some jolly type beats to a person who gon’ rap trap all the way, ‘cause
it’s gon’ give it a mesh.
I feel like that’s the Carolina sound, it’s just a mesh.
We doing what’s not normal and making it cool.
With the suspense of this song and then Baby swaggin’ it out, it’s just perfect.
It’s a perfect blend.