I was 16 years old at the time.
Actually dropped out of school just to focus
on nothing but music.
I always wanted to work with Future.
That was my favorite artist so when I sent
him some beats, I was sending him trap beats.
He called me and was like, “You know what?
Don’t send me no trap beats.”
He said, “Send me something as if you wasn’t
even sending me something.
If you was sending another artist something.”
We got off the phone call, I went straight
back to
the computer, and started on “March Madness.”
For me to not have been making beats that
long and for Future to hit me up wanting to
work was...I felt like it was a sign from
God.
‘Cause I always wanted this.
I was looking for a sign from God ‘cause
I’m like you know what?
I made a mistake and dropped out of school.
So after Future hit me up asking for more
beats, then I just knew that this profession
was for me.
When I hear “March Madness” I feel like
it’s outer space really.
I feel like I made this beat on the moon.
Even though I made this beat in the projects,
once you got those headphones on, it don’t
matter what’s your surrounding.
The music just takes you to another place.
The first thing I did when making this beat
was opening the VST called Purity.
Purity has a lot of sounds like, ambient sounds.
After I found the sound, I then put Gross
Beat on it.
The 
Gross Beat just adds the “umph” to it
‘cause you know 808 Mafia, we extra.
A lot of Atlanta artists, they’re known
for having bells in their songs.
It’s all about the vibes with me so the
feeling I wanted you to get from this sound
was an out of body experience.
This sound, it plays in the background.
No Gross Beats, no nothing.
I just let it do it’s own thing.
I left it happy.
That’s what it is, a happy sound.
I didn’t slow it down.
I just wanted to give it a...it’s a mixed
emotion beat, basically.
Bipolar.
Okay so the next sound is the 808, which is
everybody’s favorite.
I distorted it.
It puts more boom and more, like a punch.
I knew this song was gonna be played in the
club.
Every beat I do, after do the 808s I have
to do the hi-hats ‘cause they compliment
the 808s.
Like partner-in-crime, 808s and hi-hats.
People go crazy over my hi-hats.
After that, it just kinda gets easy.
Like I said I don’t like to add a lot to
the beat ‘cause then it just takes away
from the originalness of it.
Like it goes from, “Okay that’s hard”
to “Okay now you kinda doing too much.”
Like, take that out.
So just a simple chant.
One of the most classic sounds ever.
One day I was listening to a beat, and I was
like you know what?
Southside’s my big brother so I’m pretty
sure he wouldn’t mind if I used a old tag
that he used to use so…
I feel like this, the rise, it sits you up
in your seat.
Like okay what’s about to happen.
I feel like that rise was just the cherry
on top of the cake.
Future is a melody himself so I just knew
that this beat was right for him.
It was like a collab really.
Like he helped me make this beat just by the
person he is.
Like he’s challenging.
LeBron James is my favorite NBA player so
it’s just like, what the hell is going on?
Like I already have a song with my favorite
artist, Future.
And then, my favorite basketball player which
is LeBron James, this was his favorite song.
Just to know that was one of Kanye’s favorite
songs, J. Cole, like these big artists that
I would kill to work with, it’s exciting.
It’s a different feeling.
It just puts me in this place.
It actually inspires me to open my laptop
up and just go make some more just like it.
I feel like the beat is still relevant ‘til
this day.
It just puts you in this place.
Maybe, like I said it’s a drug so maybe
people are still on this drug.
People are addicted to it.
