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  • I linked up with Kendrick through Zacari.

  • As simple as it sounds, one day I was just like, "Yo, when you gonna let me play Kendrick

  • some beats?"

  • He was like, "Oh, you think it's that simple?"

  • I was like,

  • "Yeah, if you put me in a room with Kendrick I'm gonna get something placed automatically."

  • Usually people expect you to go to studios, like huge studios.

  • Go across town and all that.

  • I do the opposite.

  • I rather work from the crib.

  • I wake up in the morning, watch a movie, roll up, pray.

  • I'm real simple.

  • I don't like to do too much.

  • I'm an in-house person forreal.

  • I'm more than just a beat maker.

  • I'm not the guy that's like, "Oh, I'm finna make 30 beats today."

  • Naw it's more of a lifestyle to me.

  • It comes to me at a certain time.

  • For example, all the songs that I have out right now I made at the crib.

  • I met Zacari basically I was working at Bryson's house.

  • He actually wasn't a singer. At least I didn't think he was a singer.

  • He had a saxophone in his hand and he's dope at every instrument.

  • I never really knew that he could really sing until we actually started working together on a

  • regular basis.

  • We made a lot of records, but when we made this we were like, "Oh, what is this?"

  • We knew that this was crazy.

  • I first started off this beat by putting some filtered keys, just to give it the right build

  • up that it needs really.

  • It's like a Rhodes.

  • Like a regular piano.

  • If I was to explain the effects I have on here it would take all day, but I put layers

  • of effects on all my instruments to make it sound like a total different instrument.

  • If you was listening to my beats you would think that I'm really good at the piano, but

  • I'm not good at all.

  • It's more of just me like...I mastered FL Studio.

  • I say the second thing I added on this beat is the sample that me and Zacari basically...we

  • made something original from a lot of content that he had.

  • Just to build on top of that, a simple kick.

  • After I did the kicks I did the hi-hats and the snare immediately.

  • I basically enhanced every instrument I heard in the original sample.

  • I love this bass.

  • Again, it's real simple.

  • I do simple things so if you put it together it sounds complex.

  • I'm gonna play the kicks and the hi-hats and the bass together.

  • It has to flow.

  • Everything has to be cohesive.

  • I treat it like a house, like I'm building a house or something.

  • I'm playing a game.

  • It's not like just making beats.

  • This my favorite one.

  • I don't even think nobody know this is in the beat.

  • It's my voice.

  • It's like a whole bunch of different stuff.

  • I hear a lot of beats and it sounds like a certain person made it, that's one of the

  • reasons why I don't have a tag.

  • I want people to know a certain sound that I'm using that like, that's a Teddy beat.

  • Zacari had like a vocal chop.

  • I put a crazy effect on this one.

  • The last one.

  • Just to give it that bounce.

  • Obviously like Kendrick caught the bounce of it.

  • His lyrics was actually responding to my vocal chop.

  • After I added the vocals, it was pretty much done to me.

  • But I wanted to make something pop out a little bit more.

  • I added these keys.

  • So the last element that I added to this beat is these crazy snares that I got.

  • I basically just put like a regular snare there and put like a lot of distortion on it.

  • To be on some like, 'Watch The Throne' shit.

  • The funny part about this beat is that it's not that many instruments.

  • Everything's simple but once you put all the instruments together it sounds like a full song.

  • I think one of the reasons this song has been big is because for one I don't think nobody

  • ever heard Kendrick on this type of vibe.

  • The crazy thing about it is I wasn't even playing this for Kendrick.

  • It was Kendrick asking me, "Hey, play something you're working on."

  • It was just him being curious of what I'm listening to or what everybody else listening to.

  • I was just playing this lowkey just showing off what I got.

  • He just said it was a great song.

  • He didn't really react until the next day really, until I found out that he liked the

  • record and he wanted me to come back.

  • After he dropped 'DAMN.'

  • I could see why he picked the beat.

  • It definitely slid perfectly.

  • It was almost like it was made for him, honestly.

I linked up with Kendrick through Zacari.

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