What's going on this is Mr. Wilson, 1/3rd of ByLOFI
and you're about the witness to beat breakdown of 'Lil Arrogant' produced by LOFI and BiggKid. Let's get into it
Funny thing is the beat was originally made for SchoolBoy Q
We had got a phone call a day before we made the record from Tae Beast, shout out to Tae Beast by the way
He's like yo y'all got any records for SchoolBoy, he's putting together an album like say no more
So we was supposed to head to the studio
But my wife ended up having complications with the pregnancy so we ended up going to the hospital
Found out we had to stay overnight. I brought my equipment with me and later on that night
She went to sleep and I got to work. I made a couple of records, we sent out a batch, Lil Arrogant was in that
Schoolboy Q ended up passing on the record
but that's all good because without that happening this couldn't happen so shout out Schoolboy Q by the way.
So I opened up FL studio, shout out  FLStudio by the way gang gang gang gang gang
I pretty much already had the sample of you know in mind that I want to use but a lot of times
I got to start with my drums just to get the feel rocking so opened up battery
And I just loaded up a couple drums nothing you know crazy
I knew I wanted something gritty, but i wanted something simple as well for the artist to be able to shine on
Real simple drum pattern boom bap 90 style joint
so after that i ended up adding a sample I used Serato Sample.
Mean like if y'all are not hip to Serato Sample, y'all need to get hip right now like go get that joint immediately cool
So I ended up loading up Serato Sample or whatever
And I chopped the sample you know I chopped it up in bits and pieces
But what really stuck out to me was the beginning of the sample, so this is what it sounds like just plain straightforward
So as you can hear like the joint is really slowed down I de-pitched it like a lot
I do that a lot with samples because I wanted to sound very gringy.  I don't even know if that's a word
I wanted it to sound dirty I mean and de-pitching it a lot to get that feel so that's a that's a key for y'all
that's sampling. So once I ended up laying the sample, this is what it sounded like together
It was so simple, but it was so hard, and I knew it didn't really need much
But you know in the midst of that
I knew I needed some type of transition that led into something else so what I did was I got a break
I just took the drum roll completely out of it, and this is what that sounded like
So after I pretty much laid the foundation to the beat
I like looped it over and over and over again and like as I heard it
I'm like yo 50 cent will go crazy on this. It's just like some old-school 50 cent g-unit type shit
So the funny thing is that when I first heard Russ' verse. I heard a reference 50 cents
And I was like yo, I know we were on the  same page with this record
That's how you know it's godly when it's just put together like that. It's definitely God
So that was pretty much the foundation of the record
It was pretty simple
But I knew, in order for it to survive in 2018 it had to have something bigger
So I knew it had to have something bigger in the hook some type of bass line and some fill ins here and there
So I ended up reaching out to my homeboy BiggKid shout out BiggKid by the way
Phenomenal producer y'all need to go follow him ASAP
So let's go ahead and jump into this session to see what his process was behind the beat. What's Up this is BiggKid
I'm explaining what I did for my half of the beat for Lil Arrogant, IDK, Joey BadA$$ and Russ
All right, so when LOFI sent me the stems the first thing I thought the beat needed was some more low-end
To really make it knock when you play it in the systems
So obviously it need a bass line so I added a bass line and then a couple of kicks to just fill up that low-end
And what I used for that bass was Trillian cuz it's got a really nice
live sounding bass, and then next I just added some more keys
And I use Keyscape for those keys and then lastly to this section and I added some effects and stuff
But I also added these vocal samples
I just thought the beat sounded real like haunting and any time its like a dark haunting beat like that
I kind of just throw them on their to add some texture and all together
For this section and originally that's all the beat was the beat was just this one section
It was just a loop
But I felt like it needed some diversity like a B section to break the beat up so I went ahead
creating this section
Which is kind of the break between each of the rappers verses, and it just gives the ear something fresh
Fresh and new, so what I started off was actually taking the original sample which LOFI  had flipped and I reversed it and
Chopped up into a new sequence. It sounded like this
I also added this little vocal texture, which you can't really hear, but it
Just helped give more like melodic element to that section
It's real tucked in the back. It's just a vocal synth
And then altogether some couple more effects and stuff of that and all together it sounds like this
