So I go into the studio and literally
I was playin' the "Dior" beat.
Then the engineer hear it
and he was gettin' happy,
he was gettin' gassed with the beat.
He was like, "Yeah, this is sick,"
but then I think he
was lookin' at me like,
"I've heard this beat before though."
You know what I'm tryin' to say?
And then Pop Smoke turned
around and was like,
"Hey man, I got a tune, I
got a tune with this beat."
You know what I'm tryin' to say?
He was like, "Yeah,"
then he played it to me,
and I was like "Oo, shit, this
guy ripped it off YouTube."
You know what I'm tryin' to say? (laughs)
I feel I met Pop Smoke
through he emailed me first.
Like just random guy, his
email wasn't even Pop Smoke.
And then a couple months
later he DM'd me on Instagram.
He was like, "Oh yeah, yeah,
I wanna use one of your,
"this Welcome to the Party beat."
And from then it was
like we were just tight.
So when I first started
the "Dior" beat, literally,
I found a dark violin
sample online, and I put it
into Slicex and then reversed
it and chopped it up.
So the next sound is like a snare.
It's just like a low sound.
I should have even muted it,
you know what I'm tryin' to say?
I think they should've
just been off the tune,
you know what I'm sayin'?
But it's in the tune.
I literally found this high hat.
It was just literally
in a normal drum kit.
You know what I'm tryin' to say?
So it's not anything special I'd say.
I space my high hats
out because I feel like
it gives them space to add their
little ad libs or whatever to it.
So the next snare, I'm not gonna
spill the source for the snare.
I may release it in a later drum kit,
but no one's gonna have it yet.
I moved onto the kick.
On the master I threw on a soft clipper
to make that kick hit.
'Cause if it's not hittin'
I don't wanna release it.
So next I added the 808s,
this is what makes the tune.
This is what make a UK drill beat.
If you hear the slides on a UK drill beat
then you know this is gonna be a hit.
It's gonna go crazy, you
know what I'm tryin' to say?
No one really hears a
808 slide in normal tune.
You know what I'm tryin' to say?
Like in a trap tune, you
know what I'm tryin' to say?
The most I can compare a
slide's with like a trap style
is WondaGurl, she does a
good slide in her tunes.
You know what I'm tryin' to say.
But with UK drill beat, if
you don't hear the slide
it's like is this really a UK drill beat,
you know what I'm trying to say?
So what I did to add this slide effect,
I literally just went in here,
and clicked this button here
and accept it, and that's
what creates this sound here.
With a 808 Melo beat I
like to have various 808s.
It can't be just one 808.
On this beat I have three 808 patterns.
I don't like a simple beat.
These beats have to be complex for me.
So after the 808s I just added
a little bit of sauce to it,
like the chirp sound.
I added the money machine
sound 'cause it sounded
like just a normal sound, but
it's like it add a perk to it.
It adds like a drum pattern to it,
it's not just a random sound.
'Cause this beat is just so iconic,
it's like people wanna know where
do you get these sounds from?
And this specific sound
is from Caesar Beats,
and he's in a group that
I was previously in.
It's called Trap House Mob.
The final vox sound.
For the verse I had to add something.
I had to add something 'cause
obviously it was getting
a bit repetitive, you know
what I'm tryin' to say?
So I had to add this piano.
It gives it a Beethoven kind of feel,
you know what I'm tryin' to say?
So onto the strings, I
put it into the hook,
and that's how it created that dark vibe.
So movin' on to the stump that a lot
of UK producers use on a drill beat.
When you take low ends and then literally
we put a delay on top of it,
and that's what makes that sound.
So after the Melo beat tag
this is how the beat sounds.
I knew when it was a hit when
celebrities like Kylie Jenner,
Travis Scott, Sheck Wes were dancin'
to this in clubs and stuff like that.
Even in the UK I was
hearin' it in the cars,
you know what I'm tryin' to say?
Like everyone was bangin' the
tune and everything like that.
Even on the train, you know
what I'm tryin' to say?
I can hear people, overhearin' people
listening to this tune, I was like,
"Yeah, this is world wide, yeah"
After all this I just have
to say that rest in peace
because he made me who I am right now.
You know what I'm tryin' to say?
I'm here because of him
and we worked together,
you know what I'm tryin' to say?
We built together, so I'm just happy that
I met this guy and he
was the perfect match
for my type of music.
If it wasn't for him this
whole thing wouldn't become
what it is today, you know
what I'm tryin' to say?
His legacy will live on,
you know what I'm sayin'?
I will make sure of that as well.
This Deconstructed, literally,
it's like a lot of trap beats
and this is probably the
first UK drill beat on here.
You know what I'm tryin' to say?
