Name: What Lil Tecca Needed to Make ‘Ransom’ a Hit — Nick Mira, Taz Taylor, Cole Bennett | Diary of a Song
Uploaded: 2020-04-13T16:56:38.000Z
Duration: 8 min 36 s
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“Was your 16th year the craziest year of your life?”

Singing: “I got black, I got white, what you want?

Hop outside a Ghost and hop up in a Phantom.

They try to take my flow, I take they ass for ransom.”

“Did you ever think that this song could be top-five

I'd never been to the studio until, like, last year.

So before that, all my music I was recording it myself

“And where were you getting the beats?”

Singing: “Yeah I know you see the drip and you like it.

Wanna text me but your pride tryin' to fight it.”

in Long Island that had like a wave going on.”

“Who's the hottest rapper on Long Island?”

“You're really hot in these streets.”

I knew he was going to be a global superstar.

His place was to be at a major label and partner with one.

We just became like really close off rip.”

“We consistently just try to focus on like breaking artists

and building artists, and if we never did that,

“It all started because we were on the internet,

I was just like, man, y'all are cool kids, man.

a year, you know, just selling beats on the internet.

Tight beats is a way that you can just use

The minute the door cracked just a little bit from that,

I just kicked it open, brought everybody in with me.

Then, Nick surpassed everybody and started becoming

“This one is 'Lucid Dreams' going one on hip-hop songs.

Got some more down here for just like Billboard ones.”

“Too many plaques to hang on the wall.”

“Yeah, not enough wall space, really.”

“Tell me about discovering Lil Tecca.”

But then, I think I heard like 'Love No Thot.'”

A thot is a girl is a girl that can't get no love from me.”

"From that moment forward, I always told everybody,

'Man, I feel like this kid is going to blow up.'”

“I told my mom that a producer wanted me to come

So, like I had to explain to her and stuff first

"Working with Internet Money was an honor

because it was like our first time that a producer as talented

We booked our flight to L.A. the next day.”

I was just meeting a dude and we're going to make some songs.

There was someone in the back making beats,

so I knew I wasn't at the wrong place.”

“He wanted some Gunna Lil Baby beats or something.

And I was like, 'No, I don't really see it.

because my favorite song from him was 'Love No Thot,' which

'Dude, I want you to make some dancehall melodies, like

that you could really see if you like some dancehall drums

too, but I want you switch it and do trap stuff on it.'

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