I was going through a crazy situation.
I lost my nephew in a fatal car accident so
that just pulled everything out of me.
So I put everything into the beat and that’s
where that came from.
So one day I pulled up to the studio and 40
was like, “I need some beats.”
So I just did what I had to do.
Sat down, put a folder together for Drake and the rest is history.
First thing I did was take the rhodes and
that chord progression
and then I applied gross beat to it in FL studio.
And that’s what gave it that slow vibe.
So before that it was like this [Plays beat].
So I applied gross beat [Plays beat].
Before it was Reason and New Window.
Or Cubase.
But now it’s strictly FL Studio and ProTools.
I played all of that.
And then I slowed it down half time.
So when I combined the two now [Plays beat].
This sound right here so this is actually
a stock sound.
And i just think it sounded so crazy like,
it was the perfect blend. Everything just
made sense.
And then what I did to this baseline, I added
decapitator to it and tweaked it a bit just
so it has that extra.
So basically what I did, I went back to the
rhodes, the same rhodes that I had brought into
the session and I then I reversed it.
Once I got to this point, I was like this
is over when I get to the drums.
I swear.
And then the bass…
Right here, when it did that sound, that’s
when I knew it was crazy.
Like little things like this.
That…
So for the hats, it’s pretty simple I made
a simple pattern but then what I did after
is like I ran it through effectrix which gave
it that vibe.
I just added the snare and kept it simple
and the kick.
And the clap.
Then an open hi hat.
Just kept it simple.
Everything is melodics first.
And then the drums.
That's like the easiest thing for me.
So I try to find that sound, create melody and like all of that vibe.
And that's pretty much it.
