{"id":383952,"date":"2021-12-20T22:38:14","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T19:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/popstar-benny-wants-to-make-your-favorite-artist-get-weird\/"},"modified":"2021-12-20T22:38:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T19:38:14","slug":"popstar-benny-wants-to-make-your-favorite-artist-get-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/popstar-benny-wants-to-make-your-favorite-artist-get-weird\/","title":{"rendered":"#Popstar Benny wants to make your favorite artist get weird"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4153976eb90\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg 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class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/popstar-benny-wants-to-make-your-favorite-artist-get-weird\/#Prolific_versatile_and_curious_the_emerging_producer_talks_inspiration_his_breakthrough_songs_and_how_he_pushes_artists_to_try_new_things\" >Prolific, versatile, and curious, the emerging producer talks inspiration, his breakthrough songs, and how he pushes artists to try new things.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Popstar Benny wants to make your favorite artist get weird<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Prolific_versatile_and_curious_the_emerging_producer_talks_inspiration_his_breakthrough_songs_and_how_he_pushes_artists_to_try_new_things\"><\/span>Prolific, versatile, and curious, the emerging producer talks inspiration, his breakthrough songs, and how he pushes artists to try new things.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-227503\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Popstar_Benny_withoutalien_ix6qqc\/popstar-benny-photo-by-withoutalien.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Popstar_Benny_withoutalien_ix6qqc\/popstar-benny-photo-by-withoutalien.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Popstar_Benny_withoutalien_ix6qqc\/popstar-benny-photo-by-withoutalien.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Popstar_Benny_withoutalien_ix6qqc\/popstar-benny-photo-by-withoutalien.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Popstar_Benny_withoutalien_ix6qqc\/popstar-benny-photo-by-withoutalien.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Popstar_Benny_withoutalien_ix6qqc\/popstar-benny-photo-by-withoutalien.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Popstar_Benny_withoutalien_ix6qqc\/popstar-benny-photo-by-withoutalien.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Popstar_Benny_withoutalien_ix6qqc\/popstar-benny-photo-by-withoutalien.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Popstar_Benny_withoutalien_ix6qqc\/popstar-benny-photo-by-withoutalien.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Popstar_Benny_withoutalien_ix6qqc\/popstar-benny-photo-by-withoutalien.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Popstar_Benny_withoutalien_ix6qqc\/popstar-benny-photo-by-withoutalien.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Popstar Benny wants to make your favorite artist get weird \"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Popstar benny. Photo by @withoutalien<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-227504\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            The night before this interview, Popstar Benny was up late putting the final touches on a project. At 4 A.M., he suddenly dropped <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/popstarfm\/sets\/farrisbenny\"><i>farrisbenny!<\/i><\/a>, a sample drill mixtape with Bear1boss inspired by the wave of 2000\u2019s hit-flipping that\u2019s taken over New York. It was something different for Bear, the Buffalo-born, Atlanta-based artist Benny manages, whose music typically sounds something like throwing the Rich Kidz, Lil Uzi Vert, and a scoopful (or four) of sour gummy worms into a blender. I ran through it once when I woke up to take some notes and prayed there wouldn\u2019t be any other surprises that morning. And then, an hour before we hopped on the phone, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/popstarbenny\/status\/1468998187474161668?s=20\">Benny announced that his own album was on the way.<\/a> It\u2019d feature Bear, longtime collaborators like Tony Shhnow, and, unexpectedly, a brief <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earance from MIKE whose sepia-tinted raps couldn\u2019t be further away from Benny\u2019s bold, colorful universe. This hectic, seemingly mercurial release schedule is a monster of the Atlanta producer\u2019s own creation, but he wouldn\u2019t have it any other way.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            \u201cIn my spare time, I just be listening to hella music,\u201d the 26-year-old producer says. \u201cSo it goes full circle. It\u2019s me being bored, making the stuff that I want to hear, and putting it out \u2018cause it\u2019s not gonna do me any good to just sit with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            Benny says his music is \u201cthe soundtrack to a video <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> that doesn\u2019t exist.\u201d His beats roam from <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/snowmanservin\/not-you-cash-cache-eddie?si=f133826fc44d43c681dfd890a5b91be7&amp;utm_source=clipboard&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=social_sharing\">atmospheric takes on plugg<\/a> to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/popstarfm\/sharc-bear1boss-pink-t-p-owwwls-popstar-benny\">Zaytoven tributes filtered through a Nintendo 64 sound card<\/a>. On some songs, he\u2019ll dabble in pluggnb, a sultry offshoot of the sound created by the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/beatpluggz\">BeatPluggz<\/a> producer collective that pulls from 90s R&amp;B. On others, he\u2019ll turn the aggressive, synth-heavy rage beats innovated by producers like F1lthy into sparkling crystalline towers. Benny\u2019s eccentric production has made him a fixture of Atlanta\u2019s sprawling underground, where he started out as Larry League\u2019s DJ. In 2016,  he branched out on his own to start his own independent label Popstar FM to release his compilation tapes and one-off singles highlighting the community he\u2019s built around himself. <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            Benny has always been prolific, but in 2021, he shifted into high gear, and it\u2019s been his most successful year yet. In August, he contributed to the deluxe edition of Rod Wave\u2019s <i>SoulFly<\/i> (\u201cTake the Blame\u201d), which marked his first-ever contributions to a soon-to-be platinum album. While he was proud, it\u2019s not where his energy was focused for the majority of the year. Of the nine mixtapes and EPs Bear1boss has released this year, Benny\u2019s name appears in the credits of all but one. During our phone call, Popstar Benny spoke about being inspired by Cashmere Cat\u2019s remixes, seeing his music pop up in leak\/snippet collections, and pushing artists out of their comfort zone. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-227505\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>The FADER: When you quit your last job in 2019, did you have a moment where you realized that you were like, \u201cnah, all I want to do is music\u201d?<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            I had that moment early in my college career. I was just getting different opportunities that had me distracted when I was in class. I dropped out to focus on it. So it was always in the back of my head, but my thing up until 2019 was keeping it goal-based. I was like, \u201cif I go hard enough, I can get to a point where all I can focus on is creating art.\u201d I think it was that summer I got my second album placement with Rod Wave. When that advance came, I just quit and was freelancing from there.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>Where do you get your inspiration from?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            In 2013, 2012,   I was the hugest fan of Cashmere Cat and Fool\u2019s Gold [Records]. Them taking the electronic-leaning styles and dabbling into remixing, blending the two worlds where it&#8217;s still spacey and weird EDM, but the drums would tie it together. That&#8217;s the thing that always struck me, where no matter how strange it gets, if the drums are what they&#8217;re supposed to be like, it&#8217;ll tie it together. Anything that sounds cool to me, melodically, I&#8217;m not afraid to fuck with it &#8217;cause I know the right drums can like still tie it together.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-227511\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1107389503&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/bear1boss\" title=\"BEAR1BOSS\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">BEAR1BOSS<\/a> \u00b7 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/bear1boss\/mojo-p-hotsauce-popstar-benny\" title=\"Mojo (p. Hotsauce + Popstar Benny + 14 Golds)\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Mojo (p. Hotsauce + Popstar Benny + 14 Golds)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-227506\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>Do you think that people get caught up in trying to define microgenres and subcategories?<\/b><br \/>A lot of the microgenres that came up are really just extensions of main things that already have a thing. Pluggnb is just R&amp;B leaning plugg, you know? Rage you could say is plugg beats with a little more electronic leaningness. I feel like that&#8217;s just an internet subculture of folks wanting to identify their own little thing. But I think in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>, a lot of things [are] offshoots of each other. That&#8217;s the thing that I fuck with. I feel like if you understand the root of them, then you&#8217;ll always be good with whatever side thing comes out. \u2018Cause it&#8217;d be like, <i>oh this is just that element from over here, you know, slightly did with this twist.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>            <b>Whenever I stumble onto someone from Atlanta&#8217;s underground and feel that their name is kind of familiar, I go and look through their past stuff and I see your name pop up in their production credits. <\/b><br \/>I&#8217;m a huge Pharrell fan\u2014that was really my whole model with this going in. Of course I want to aim for bigger names, but I always fucked with when [the Neptunes] would find people and help them build their sound. It might be someone completely unheard of and they&#8217;ll do three, four songs on their album and then they\u2019ll turn around and do Britney Spears, and then they&#8217;ll do some rock shit. I\u2019m just trying to be in as many realms as I can be in.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-227512\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/886743373&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/10kdunk\" title=\"10KDunkin\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">10KDunkin<\/a> \u00b7 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/10kdunk\/tables-turn-popstarbenny-tylur\" title=\"Tables Turn [Popstarbenny + Tylur Ocean] 10KDunkin + Tony Shhnow\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Tables Turn [Popstarbenny + Tylur Ocean] 10KDunkin + Tony Shhnow<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-227507\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>Bear1boss has been everywhere this year. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>            The crazy thing with Bear is I was just a fan of his music for a couple years on some random \u2018I saw him on Instagram or SoundCloud\u2019 type shit. I would send beats to the email, but nothing really stuck. I think at end of 2019, I was DJing at his show and his DJ couldn&#8217;t make it so I had to spin his music. I saw him perform and he literally sung, danced, rapped for 30 minutes straight. His DJ made like a mix for him since he couldn&#8217;t be there. It had like all the drops, all the horns and everything. He knew every exact thing, like if it&#8217;s seven seconds of silence, he&#8217;s ready as soon as it drops. I was like, &#8220;yo, this nigga&#8217;s insane.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>            It might have been like 15 people at that show, but he was performing like it was Coachella. After that I was a super-duper fan, but then randomly months later in the year, me and Ziti were making a whole bunch of beats. He was like, &#8220;yo, I got session with this dude. Can we send over those recent shits we did?&#8221; And then he recorded &#8220;Xan!&#8221; and another song with him the first night. And then he was like &#8220;yeah, he don&#8217;t got nothing else going on this week.&#8221; Over the next two weeks we just recorded pretty much every day or every other day and did 20-something songs, dropped that as <i> America&#8217;s Sweetheart<\/i> and that\u2019s what got the ball rolling. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-227508\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>You&#8217;ve been working with Rod Wave ever since <i>Hunger Games 3<\/i> in 2018. How&#8217;d you first get stuff with him?<\/b><br \/>It was an A&amp;R at Alamo. We had Lil Wop on some of the Popstar FM albums and then he signed with Alamo later that year. And I was on like a Lil Wop tape, too. He had just been seeing me throughout that summer. He was like, some of the artists from Alamo are in town and if I wanted to come through for a session and play some beats I could. When I got off work me and my homie Mike had slid. Rod was in one room and the other artist was in like the other room. I think Rod was like midway through a song, so I just started playing beats for the other artist. <\/p>\n<p>            I didn&#8217;t even have a folder. I just had my laptop and, bruh, I swear, every single beat that the first nigga heard, like he was like, &#8220;no, no, no.&#8221; He let me play like at least 50 or 60 of them and within like 15 seconds it&#8217;d be like &#8220;nah.&#8221; I&#8217;m like, &#8220;Bruh please just be like, I don&#8217;t think we vibe.\u201d But Rod&#8217;s manager, he would hear some of them when I was playing and be like, &#8220;hold this to the side for Rod.&#8221; When I finally got in the room with Rod, some of the ones that the manager had picked out he loved. He pretty much freestyled &#8220;Pressure&#8221; when he heard the beat.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-227513\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/991805935&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/popstarbenny\" title=\"popstar benny\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">popstar benny<\/a> \u00b7 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/popstarbenny\/alexander-slang-access-granted\" title=\"alexander slang - access granted * p. maru + benny\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">alexander slang &#8211; access granted * p. maru + benny<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-227510\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>There&#8217;s also that one song you have with him, &#8220;Rock and Roll&#8221; that\u2019s been floating around as a leak.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            When the album dropped, I started tapping into one of the fan pages. They was showing me the &#8220;Rock and Roll&#8221; [snippet]. And there&#8217;s another one, I think called &#8220;Be Free,&#8221; that folks been waiting for. I was checking TikTok, they got this shit with literally hundreds of thousands of likes on it! I was watching this NPR Tiny Desk and he threw in the lyrics for it at the end. So he&#8217;s been teasing it over the year. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-227509\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>Does it feel weird seeing your music ending up in these leaks?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            It does because I used to be like that for other artists. I just didn&#8217;t know that it existed for Rod Wave. It&#8217;s just some cool full circle shit. I&#8217;m used to being on the other end of it, tracking down the little exclusive rare tracks for my favorite folks. I&#8217;m pretty sure I might have some low quality Uzi snippets in my DJ folder.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>The beats you give him aren\u2019t really the kind of stuff you expect him to hop on. It\u2019s not really riding that sad guitar wave.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I guess that&#8217;s why he still reaches out. I know how to get within that zone of stuff, but not have it be a complete duplicate of what he does. I got  family in Florida, so I&#8217;ve been there over the years and fuck with the music heavy. Just knowing Florida music a little bit gives me an edge with making beats for him.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>How do you get artists to trust you with these weirder beats, like the ones that are basically all negative space and 808s? Do you have to convince them to get on those?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            It&#8217;s the Pharrell effect, man! I watched him do it with all the folks. He used to be like, &#8220;Alright, you&#8217;re known for this sound, but there&#8217;s a whole space that you haven&#8217;t touched. So how can we overlap?&#8221; That&#8217;s like my perspective. I know what drums are gonna move folks. If it&#8217;s knocking, they&#8217;ll be a little bit more willing to take it there. &#8220;Hollaback Girl,&#8221; that&#8217;s just like a stomp clap. But it&#8217;s groovy enough and hard enough to make people fuck with it. At the root, weirdness is a factor, weirdness helps. I could definitely make the baseline ones that are hard, but I would rather make weird ones that are still hard just because it\u2019s what I would like to see in the world.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-227514\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/669758417&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/popstarbenny\" title=\"popstar benny\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">popstar benny<\/a> \u00b7 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/popstarbenny\/closinit\" title=\"lil uzi vert - closin' it (popstar benny remix)\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">lil uzi vert &#8211; closin&#8217; it (popstar benny remix)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Brandon Callender<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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