I'm living in Harlem.
I been working with Ferg, Marty Baller.
Marty called me like, “Yo, Ferg got the
session at Quad."
"He's booked it for the whole week.”
So we would always go there early or whatever
and just play our joints.
A bunch of artist came through like Andre
3000, Cam'ron, Migos.
Rich came through.
I just played the beat and he was just like,
"That's it."
When I'm making a beat, the most important
thing is my mood and how I feel, 'cause I
feel like every beat I make is through my
emotion.
When I was making "New Freezer" I was into
piano melodies.
I was thinking like 2 Chainz "I'm Different"
or like "Bitch You Guessed It."
My homie Brandon, he made that beat, "Bitch
You Guessed It" and that was one of his biggest
singles, so that's another reason that made
me want to just keep it simple.
I started with Omnisphere.
I was going through the sounds or whatever.
I went to guitars and went to Baritone A.
I think I started it with just this though.
And then I filled in the other notes.
E minor I think is the chord.
I EQ’d the guitar a little bit.
I just took the highs out I think.
Usually I would go crazy with the 808's, but
now it's just like, "Know what?
I'ma just do that one hit.
Doom."
I had a vibe kit 808 and I just let that shit
rock one time, like.
And then I added kicks.
Simple snare.
The percussion, it's not even like a snare,
snare.
It's like a percussion.
I was kind of random with the hi-hats.
I was just like, I might do that shit randomly.
Literally, one, two, three, four, five sounds
in this beat.
Rich don't write.
He just went right in the booth.
Like, just started punching in like bar for
bar for bar.
And it happened mad quick, like, just as fast
as I made the beat, that's how fast he recorded
that shit.
Like, it happened right away.
He called me to go to Quad again.
And we did like three more joints.
And he told me about like, "Yo, Kendrick wants
to get on it."
Universal e-mailed me saying, "Oh, you own
a part of this song," and they actually put
Kendrick Duckworth on the split sheet and
I was just like, "Yo this is crazy."
This was one of my throw away beats.
I told you, my man told me, “That beat fire.”
That’s the reason I even thought it was
cool.
Simple beats do be working, but I had no idea
it was gonna go this far.
It opened up a door for people to know who
I am a little bit more.
And now I have a chance to really show people
what I can do.
