{"id":615757,"date":"2024-04-05T19:08:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T16:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tdf-is-making-808s-big-enough-to-blow-your-speakers-up\/"},"modified":"2024-04-05T19:08:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T16:08:13","slug":"tdf-is-making-808s-big-enough-to-blow-your-speakers-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tdf-is-making-808s-big-enough-to-blow-your-speakers-up\/","title":{"rendered":"#tdf is making 808s big enough to blow your speakers up"},"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-6a3578155a8f4\" 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 style=\"fill: 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class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tdf-is-making-808s-big-enough-to-blow-your-speakers-up\/#The_Minneapolis_producer_talked_to_The_FADER_about_finding_his_sound_getting_motivated_by_the_haters_and_his_upcoming_album_i_love_you_4\" >The Minneapolis producer talked to The FADER about finding his sound, getting motivated by the haters, and his upcoming album i love you 4.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Minneapolis_producer_talked_to_The_FADER_about_finding_his_sound_getting_motivated_by_the_haters_and_his_upcoming_album_i_love_you_4\"><\/span>The Minneapolis producer talked to The FADER about finding his sound, getting motivated by the haters, and his upcoming album <i>i love you 4<\/i>.<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-261033\" 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\/tdf-main-image_iqwpbh\/tdf-producer-interview.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/tdf-main-image_iqwpbh\/tdf-producer-interview.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/tdf-main-image_iqwpbh\/tdf-producer-interview.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/tdf-main-image_iqwpbh\/tdf-producer-interview.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/tdf-main-image_iqwpbh\/tdf-producer-interview.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/tdf-main-image_iqwpbh\/tdf-producer-interview.jpg 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class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            tdf\u2019s productions can bait a certain kind of rap fan, down to his drops. Littered across his projects <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/onetdf\/sets\/religion\"><i>RELIGION<\/i><\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/onetdf\/sets\/blueprint\"><i>BLUEPRINT<\/i><\/a> are vicious insults sampled from Instagram Live: tdf is a dickrider, tdf fell off, tdf has <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/diary-of-a-wimpy-kid.fandom.com\/wiki\/Cheese_Touch\">the Cheese Touch<\/a>; tdf wants to be Pi\u2019erre Bourne so bad, tdf keeps putting \u201crandom ass n***as\u201d on his beats, tdf is \u201cthe worst prod in history.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t really take that stuff seriously, so I just put it in there,\u201d the 20-year-old tells me over the phone.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            Based in Minnesota, tdf (n\u00e9e Tyrese Jones) mostly collaborates over the Internet. In the four years since he started taking music seriously, he\u2019s worked with some of the underground\u2019s key figures, including xaviersobased, d0llywood1, iayze, Polo Perks, Yhapojj, Maajins, Tana, and zee!. And despite the relative geographic isolation, he\u2019s cultivated a tight-knit crew of friends and collaborators with fellow Minnesotan Okaymar as well as OsamaSon, perc40, wildkarduno, 1oneam, and Smokingskul. \u201c[The fans] call us Slayworld Junior,\u201d he chuckles, a reference to the Yeat-adjacent musical collective.<\/p>\n<p>            Heavily inspired by MexikoDro and yes, Pi\u2019erre Bourne, tdf\u2019s beats combine the lullaby melodies of plugg music with kick drums warped beyond all recognition. When tdf started producing around the age of 14, he was making \u201cPlayboi Carti type beats,\u201d but quickly grew bored as his skills improved. \u201cI just don\u2019t want to be known as a clone. It\u2019s cool to start off making type beats, especially if you\u2019re a kid,\u201d he says. \u201c[But] if you want to go far, you definitely got to make your own sound.\u201d<\/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-261031\" class=\"content_block paragraph video triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adele (feat. ohsxnta)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PX3rNRGtMpU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('261031');\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261032\" 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>            \u201cI don&#8217;t like to really put names on stuff. The way we think about it, we just make music,\u201d tdf tells me. \u201cBut for the supporters, they like to classify us as \u2018dark plugg.\u2019 But I don\u2019t think I make dark plugg. I always tell everybody \u2018don\u2019t box me in,\u2019 I don\u2019t like being boxed into a subgenre.\u201d The end result of tdf\u2019s sonic tinkering is familiar but fresh, more playful than rage but more abrasive than a StoopidXool beat. \u201cHis 808s sound like a fuckin microwave,\u201d per the outro of \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/onetdf\/ohsxnta-lemme-see-prod-tdf?si=a94acf384f09496b90eb428df0a1b0cc&amp;utm_source=clipboard&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=social_sharing\">lemme see<\/a>.\u201d A DJ drop at the end of \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/iloveyou888\/kura-tables-turned-prod-tdf?in=iloveyou888\/sets\/we-make-noise&amp;si=db5f0f1b01184430b571c8f6ef37ad8d&amp;utm_source=clipboard&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=social_sharing\">tables turned<\/a>\u201d announces, \u201cIt\u2019s midnight hoe. We just blew your speakers up.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            \u201cThe whole meaning behind <i>BLUEPRINT<\/i>, why I named [the album] that. This whole little wave? I started that,\u201d tdf explains. \u201cBack then everybody used to be like, <i>what the fuck is he making<\/i> and now you hearing more of my influence on everybody\u2019s beats in the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            I caught up with tdf at the end of March to talk about his musical inspirations, his start as a producer, carving out his own sound, and the impending release of <i>i love you 4<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261034\" 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\/tdf-group-pic_kju8tn\/from-left-to-right-wildkarduno-osamason-perc40-okaymar-tdf-1oneam-and-smokingskul.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/tdf-group-pic_kju8tn\/from-left-to-right-wildkarduno-osamason-perc40-okaymar-tdf-1oneam-and-smokingskul.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/tdf-group-pic_kju8tn\/from-left-to-right-wildkarduno-osamason-perc40-okaymar-tdf-1oneam-and-smokingskul.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/tdf-group-pic_kju8tn\/from-left-to-right-wildkarduno-osamason-perc40-okaymar-tdf-1oneam-and-smokingskul.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/tdf-group-pic_kju8tn\/from-left-to-right-wildkarduno-osamason-perc40-okaymar-tdf-1oneam-and-smokingskul.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/tdf-group-pic_kju8tn\/from-left-to-right-wildkarduno-osamason-perc40-okaymar-tdf-1oneam-and-smokingskul.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/tdf-group-pic_kju8tn\/from-left-to-right-wildkarduno-osamason-perc40-okaymar-tdf-1oneam-and-smokingskul.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/tdf-group-pic_kju8tn\/from-left-to-right-wildkarduno-osamason-perc40-okaymar-tdf-1oneam-and-smokingskul.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/tdf-group-pic_kju8tn\/from-left-to-right-wildkarduno-osamason-perc40-okaymar-tdf-1oneam-and-smokingskul.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/tdf-group-pic_kju8tn\/from-left-to-right-wildkarduno-osamason-perc40-okaymar-tdf-1oneam-and-smokingskul.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/tdf-group-pic_kju8tn\/from-left-to-right-wildkarduno-osamason-perc40-okaymar-tdf-1oneam-and-smokingskul.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"tdf is making 808s big enough to blow your speakers up\"><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      From left to right, wildkarduno, OsamaSon, perc40, okaymar, tdf, 1oneam, and Smokingskul.<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-261035\" 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>Tell me a little bit about where you grew up and how you started producing.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I was born and raised in North Minneapolis. I started making music the last day of school, [when] I was about 13 or 14. We was just trying to find something to do for the summer, and one of my friends was like, \u201cwe should make music and give it a try.\u201d When I first started I wasn\u2019t even a producer, I was a r<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>er. I think it was in 2017 when I started producing. My mom handed me down her laptop and I was using that half-broken laptop for a minute.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>Taking it back even further, before you started making music, when you were a little kid \u2014 what kind of music were your parents playing in the house?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            My dad, when I was growing up, he listened to a lot of Michael Jackson. Then on my mom&#8217;s side, she listens to a lot of R&amp;B, all that good stuff. Beyonc\u00e9, Tyrese \u2014 that\u2019s how I even got my name, because my real name is Tyrese. I was named after [him]. My mom used to listen to a lot of Kanye West. My dad used to listen to a lot of old-school rap, but I didn&#8217;t really get into that. I&#8217;m not really fond of old rappers besides Tupac and Biggie.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>What are some of the first plugg songs you heard that stuck with you?<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            Before that, like in the middle school days, I used to listen to drill rap from the Chicago scene. Like Chief Keef, everybody in Glo Gang, like P. Rico all that. Rondonumbanine, it\u2019s a whole bunch of people. The first plugg song I ever heard might have been \u2014 one is \u201dBroke Boi,\u201d or <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_y5wyRPxQzg\">that song<\/a> with Rich The Kid, Carti and Kodak. The first Carti song I ever heard I think it\u2019s called \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SnHJ-kqGUrc\">No Pressure<\/a>\u201d with Rich the Kid and the other one is called \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Kp-orX3mRR0\">Sauce<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            <b>Was Chicago drill big up in Minneapolis?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Most definitely. The type of school that I went to, that&#8217;s what everybody listened to. It\u2019s like drill rap, Chief Keef, everybody was big on Lud Foe, he had the song everybody used to sing, \u201cI\u2019m Da Man.\u201d<\/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-261036\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lud Foe  - I&#039;m Da Man (Dir. @PassportTrace)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8cvocJvgLAk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('261036');\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261037\" 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>What were some of your favorite songs out of that era?<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            I got a few, you know Young Pappy? I like the majority of his songs, and then Chief Keef \u2014 he got a whole bunch of classics, I\u2019m going down memory lane. \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DdL_e7CtNJA\">Love No Thotties<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XFZVBO940wQ\">Macaroni Time<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U2nBhkWjtFE\">Morgan Tracy<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            <b>What kind of beats were you making when you started?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            When I first started [around 2017], I was making Mexikodro-type beats. I made a few XXXTentacion beats, a few Brent Rambo-type beats, shoutout to Brent Rambo. Basically, Playboi Carti type beats was the main thing. When I first started producing, that\u2019s when Carti dropped self-titled [<i>Playboi Carti<\/i>]. I had just found out about Pi\u2019erre Bourne and I fell in love with his beats. That\u2019s like my main inspiration. Fast forward to now, my main inspiration is [more] plugg producers like MexikoDro, StoopidXool\u2026 I fuck with XanGang heavy too, he\u2019s definitely one of my inspirations. I was like 14 when I first made my first-ever beat. But I didn&#8217;t start taking music seriously until like [2019], when I met my friend Okaymar from that class.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>You mentioned that this was around the time you started taking music more seriously.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Really because of him I ain\u2019t gon lie. We did a song and it got a few [more] likes than it usually do. We was making good music. We was just pushing our songs and it was like hit songs to me, really good songs. And I wasn&#8217;t really sending out beats during that time to get placements and stuff like that, I was just doing music for the fun of it.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261038\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TDF &amp; Okaymar Studio Vlog\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0UY1E0VqufM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('261038');\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261039\" 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>I&#8217;m curious to hear more about how you make the sound that you make.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I was making type beats before and I was like \u201cI don\u2019t want to make type beats for my whole career.\u201d I don\u2019t want to make beats like another man, you know, I want to take this serious, I want to build my own name, my own legacy. So when I first started trying to make my sound, I was taking inspiration from the plugg stuff and inspiration from the Pi\u2019erre stuff and kind of forming it together and experimenting. I would make beats every day just experimenting, experimenting, trying to see what I can do different, see what sounds good. And that\u2019s how, it was all coming together slowly by the time I met Okaymar. And then me and him was just building, my sound would keep on evolving from there. Cuz my beats now\u2026 I\u2019ve always had the sound, they sound similar, but it\u2019s been evolving every single year \u2014 proud of the progress I\u2019ve made since then.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>You used to do the occasional song where you rapped on your own stuff, but now it feels like pretty much everything you do is a collaboration with another vocalist. Is there any particular reason you don&#8217;t make as many songs where you\u2019re rapping now?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            To be honest, I do want to get back to rapping more. There&#8217;s people in my DMs who tell me like, \u201cwhen are you dropping a song again?\u201d Sometimes I just overthink \u2014 I like to perfect stuff. Especially because I feel like I&#8217;m way better now.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>I was listening to <i>BLUEPRINT<\/i> a lot this spring\/winter \u2014 there are all these little interludes or skits that are basically people shit-talking your production. Where did those come from? And why did you put them on there?<br \/><\/b><br \/>It\u2019s people who hate on me. They just hate on me for no reason, I couldn\u2019t even really tell you. And I don\u2019t really take that stuff seriously, like I always say \u201cif you don\u2019t have haters you\u2019re not doing it right.\u201d So I just put it in there. All of those are real Instagram Lives. Fans will screenrecord and send them to me. I don&#8217;t know if you noticed but like me and perc40, we put tags on our beats, like just some random shit. Sometimes it\u2019ll be funny sometimes it\u2019ll be other stuff, but I just wanted to put some more people shit-talking. But yeah all those are from Instagram Lives, none of those are fake.<\/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-261040\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"6 (feat. 1oneam)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PybtkI-K7kg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('261040');\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-261041\" 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 bring up the idea of these [Instagram Lives] functioning as drops or sound effects, and on the tape with Kura you&#8217;re doing a lot of drops that are almost like Gangsta Grillz, DJ Drama talking shit on the beat type shit. And with that tape, you have this <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/iloveyou888\">whole separate SoundCloud page<\/a> for a bunch of your collab tapes.<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            The whole point of that page at first, I just wanted to put together a random tape of throwaways for just for the supporters, just to show love back. And it was doing good and stuff so I was like, \u201cI\u2019ma start posting tapes and collab tapes on here, stuff that wouldn\u2019t go on the main page. And I\u2019ve just been doing that since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>What makes you think \u201cthis is something that I want to save for a tdf project\u201d that\u2019s going on the main page and DSPs? Is there a big distinction, or is it just whatever mood strikes you?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            To be honest, it really depends on the era. I would like to call myself a perfectionist, and I kind of space out my drops, on my main page at least. I like to build up anticipation.<br \/>Everything that I put on my main page, those are like newer beats. I guess you could say that separates it. If I have something that&#8217;s in the vault, that&#8217;s been in there for a while and I want to drop it, or a song on an old beat, [that\u2019ll go on the i love you page].<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>You\u2019ve got <i>i love you 4<\/i> coming later this month, correct? Is that mostly stuff with other people, and what kind of sound are you going for?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Yeah, I\u2019m thinking April. I can\u2019t really say who\u2019s going to be on it, all I know is it\u2019s a compilation tape of songs in the vault. Grails and stuff, just songs people been wanting and a lot of songs I been meaning to drop. Every time I do tapes like those I make like 20-some songs; I\u2019m probably gonna do 25 this time, or something around there.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>Earlier you said you&#8217;re proud of how far you&#8217;ve come, but you&#8217;ve still got a ways to go to get where you want to be. What are you most proud of in terms of your development as a producer?<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            The thing I&#8217;m most proud of is that I crafted my own sound. And I actually have supporters that like that sound and fuck with me for who I am. I remember when I first started, like I said, I was doing it for fun, just out of love. I still do love music, but I&#8217;m just speaking for back then. Back then \u2014 it sounds crazy, but I didn&#8217;t even think I&#8217;d ever hit 1,000 followers on any platform. I swear to God, I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d ever hit 1,000 followers. And I think now I got 12k. It&#8217;s pretty crazy. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m most proud of.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Vivian Medithi<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\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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