News Anchor #1: Two men are in jail this morning
including an up and coming Florida rapper.
Both men are in charged in a double murder.
News Anchor #2: YNW Melly as well as another
man are being held here at the Broward County
jail this morning.
They are each charged with two counts of first-degree
murder and they’re also accused of…
SMKEXCLSV: When I first heard about the allegations
I automatically knew that it was fake news
‘cause I know Melly.
It’s not a confession.
This was already a song that was made like,
three years ago.
This has nothing to do with what Melly’s
going through right now.
I just know him, and he’s not like that.
I actually got inspired by Soulja Boy.
Ever since he dropped that “Crank That,”
that’s what got me started into making music.
At that time I was still in school.
My routine was just to come, home, make beats,
and that’s what I would do.
I had a friend was into music, and he knew
about Melly so he told me that I should get
in contact with him.
So, I hit him up on Facebook.
The first beat I sent him was “772 Love.”
“772” came to be just as him sending me
a video of him singing it.
You know, banging on 
the door.
I took that, imported it into FL, and it was
a wrap from then.
I didn’t even meet Melly at that point.
I was just making beats and after that, I
made “Murder On My Mind.”
At that point, I was selling my beats for cheap
but he was at jail at that point, so he couldn’t
really pay me.
I had to literally give him the beat free.
Melly pays me now so we’re good.
I started off with the piano.
It’s literally a stock plugin that
comes with FL.
As soon as this melody was laid out already,
it kinda gave me that dark vibe so that’s
what I wanted to go with.
When I’m making beats, I either go from
melody to 808 and that’s exactly what I did.
That’s when I started just adding the clap.
And then the secondary clap.
Snare.
After that the perc.
Secondary snare.
And then the hi-hats.
And then a chant.
Then here’s it with a kick.
And finally the 808.
After that I added this vocal.
It’s literally a stock in vocal.
You just go to packs, vocals, and it’s this
one.
The first thing that I added on this was a
reverb.
After that I wanted to make it a little bit
louder so I added distortion.
I added an EQ to cut out the low ends.
Finally I just added this Gross Beat.
And this is how it sounds like.
Everybody wants to know what the siren is,
and it’s literally London On Da Track’s
signature tag.
I just added some reverb.
I like making my hooks different than the
verse, and this is it.
It’s actually Gross Beat.
I felt like it needed something else, so I
just added this flute that I found in Symphonic
Orchestra.
This flute actually reminded me of “Lux
Aeterna.”
It’s like an orchestra song that you can
look up on YouTube.
And this is how the whole project sounds.
The final version of the song, me and Melly
didn’t really get to listen to it together
‘cause he was at jail at that time but we
already knew it was gonna be a hit.
I feel like me and him are like Metro and
21.
Me and him make a lot of stuff and, ends up
being his biggest hits.
Melly is a genius ‘cause he can do any type
of genre that he wants.
He just hears a beat and kills it.
The “Mind On My Murder” beat is literally
the same beat.
It’s just slowed down.
Melly had called my manager and my manager
had told me he wanted to do a different perspective
of the one getting shot.
It just made me look at Melly a different
way ‘cause he's so creative.
