This was the first beat we made.
For the Cardi pack, really.
That was the first beat and that was the
only beat.
When we made the beat...
One was just...
Yeah, we just sat there and we looked at each
other and was like yo, it's it.
That's it.
We know it's it.
Me and 30 vibe like big brother and little
brother and we finna get a bag together, type shit.
I’m the big brother, and you’re what?
The little big brother.
Sonned him again.
There we go.
Keep that.
So one day we were at a beat battle and they
went down the list it was like, "30 Roc,
somebody else, somebody else, Cheez Beats."
And I looked down I was like, "Hey, nigga.
I've been looking for you."
Been my brother ever since, really.
A lot of people don't understand that or
a lot of rappers and artists don't understand
that it's really about the bounce that will
make your fans go for it or won't go for it.
While we created this beat, it don't sound
nothing like "Bodak Yellow."
You know what I'm saying?
But we still kept it in the club.
We still kept it in that region.
You know what I'm saying?
That night it was just on some, “Yo, let's
link.”
I walked to the studio 'cause El was like
“Yo, let's get this pack to Cardi.”
So we just pulled up the keyboard and we started
going through some sounds and shit and really
it was just magic, man.
Like, we just knew that this beat was gonna
go to her though.
We probably made the beat around like August
28th or something like that and you know
"Bodak Yellow" was like on fire right
now.
So it was kinda like, we had to come with
that next one.
We started with like a pad and I'll play without
the gross beat first, and then play it with
the gross beat.
So this is without gross beat.
And then we put a gross beat on it with the
reverse on it, so this is it with it.
So from there, we added a piano, which was
underneath it.
We added the snare.
Which was, I think the Pyrex out of Johnny
Juliano.
From there we decided to bring in the first
two sounds that we do have around the snare.
And we decided, “Okay."
"We definitely gotta add like a high hat so
we can get a bounce.”
It was just a night where I was drawing everything
in and he had the keyboard and he added like
this little bottom part, which was like, “tap
tap.”
Sometimes I really be hearing something, but
in this I think I was just fucking around.
He really get on my goddamn nerves.
I might’ve just been sitting there smoking,
and he just....
Getting on my goddamn nerves.
To fuck with him.
What you gonna do?
Don’t play with me bro.
I swear I’ll leave this interview.
Leave it.
Wrap this shit up.
No, but basically after having all them sounds
we added a open hat.
So then from there we took it and we added
a 808 with the sounds that we had.
And with the 808 pattern, which was kinda
so special about it, we actually went through
and you know, I added two notes and he went
in and added like a couple like four notes
and then I came behind him. Pause, came behind
him. Pause ... Then...
Followed up.
I followed up and I added like a couple more
notes and then we basically just made it work,
so I'll just play the 808 pattern by itself.
The only thing that we added in the second
part of the hook was a simple high hat, which was...
We took the verse and we was like, “Man
we gotta turn it up, but we wanted to keep
it in the pocket.
We just basically changed up the 808's.
Like, throughout the hook and the verse we
just kinda like swapped 'em and just tried
to keep everything in the pocket so when she
got on it, she was able to get in, get out,
get in, get out. You know what I'm saying,
but make the song fun.
It took us about two months to get the beat
to her.
About seven weeks to get the record done.
When I heard the finished product I was like,
“Hell yeah."
"This bitch gon’ go.”
You know when you got a hit, you got a hit.
But it's like…
You gotta keep it moving.
Yeah, you gotta keep it moving and…
You can’t get comfortable with this shit.
Sometimes you don't even know what the hit
is capable of doing for your life.
Me and this nigga, we sat in the studio was
like, “Yo we gonna make these niggas pay
attention this year.
We gonna make everybody know that like, “Yo,
we 'bout to have this run.”
A lot of people doubted us.
A lot of people who didn't believe in the
situation.
And me and him took it upon ourselves to,
“We’re gonna make the world believe.”
You know what I'm saying?
Anything that you hear from me or him, whether
separate or together, we proving a point.
