{"id":666417,"date":"2025-05-02T01:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T22:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-ivvys-and-stepteam-unlocked-new-rhythms-in-rap-production\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T01:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T22:50:17","slug":"how-ivvys-and-stepteam-unlocked-new-rhythms-in-rap-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-ivvys-and-stepteam-unlocked-new-rhythms-in-rap-production\/","title":{"rendered":"How ivvys and #stepTeam unlocked new rhythms in rap production"},"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-6a3bf35b85e8d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span 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class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-ivvys-and-stepteam-unlocked-new-rhythms-in-rap-production\/#The_Connecticut-raised_producer_broke_through_self-doubt_and_type-beat_limbo_to_make_a_sound_all_his_own\" >The Connecticut-raised producer broke through self-doubt and type-beat limbo to make a sound all his own.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Connecticut-raised_producer_broke_through_self-doubt_and_type-beat_limbo_to_make_a_sound_all_his_own\"><\/span>The Connecticut-raised producer broke through self-doubt and type-beat limbo to make a sound all his own.<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-270316\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" 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750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/beat_construction_web_zutkjz\/ivvys-stepteam-producer-interview.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/beat_construction_web_zutkjz\/ivvys-stepteam-producer-interview.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/beat_construction_web_zutkjz\/ivvys-stepteam-producer-interview.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/beat_construction_web_zutkjz\/ivvys-stepteam-producer-interview.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/beat_construction_web_zutkjz\/ivvys-stepteam-producer-interview.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"How ivvys and #stepTeam unlocked new rhythms in rap production\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-270317\" 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>\n            <i>The FADER\u2019s longstanding <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> Beat Construction interviews today&#8217;s most crucial producers and their craft.<\/i>\n          <\/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-270318\" 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>\n            No, you don\u2019t have music playing from two <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>s at once, and yes, your Internet connection is just fine: ivvys actually <i>wants<\/i> his drums to sound like they\u2019re skipping, stuttering and glitching all over themselves. The Connecticut-raised producer and rapper has quietly taken SoundCloud by storm as the de facto face of production trio<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/steppinonnemheads\"> #stepTeam<\/a>, whose off-kilter rhythms seem to miraculously quantize irrational time-signatures. This isn\u2019t strictly true \u2013 watch a few of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rNU3l1mzfV0\">ivvys\u2019s cookup videos<\/a> and you\u2019ll begin to understand how he makes 4\/4 sound so convoluted \u2013 but the jagged, mesmerizing form of #stepTeam\u2019s cadences has caught the ear of everyone from MIKE to tana to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/umru_\/status\/1917376383145177510\">Umru<\/a>.\n          <\/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-270321\" 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=\"ivvys - vibes (dir. brokensippycup)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YSo9iyCFYn8?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('270321');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-270319\" 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>\n            Rounding out membership are the DMV producer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/sxprano\">sxprano<\/a> and New Jersey artist maajins, who had already built significant reputations among the hip-hop underground (sxprano as ian\u2019s go-to producer, and maajins as a highly prolific rapper and producer). By comparison, ivvys\u2019s rise has been synonymous with that of the crew, and so his name is most closely associated with the collective\u2019s stop-start instrumentals. When I call the 18-year-old producer mid-April to ask about the inspiration for his drum patterns, he tells me, \u201crhythm-wise, it would come from a mix of all the ambient [trap] I used to listen to, EDM music, and fucking footwork, bro, I kid you not.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            ivvys first popped up on my radar last fall with the sxprano-produced \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/on.soundcloud.com\/P56REWbc2GvdJNVD9\">juco<\/a>,\u201d a madcap 64 second cut where piercing sirens herald seismic 808s rumbling beneath a martial parade of synthesized chants, stop-start snares, and a whirring, near atonal sample droning incessantly. It\u2019s deliberately intense, but the bass doesn\u2019t quite redline like OsamaSon or blowout like skaiwater \u2014 instead, it forms an uneven metronome, like tides under a full moon or the attack patterns of a video <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> boss fight. That song led me to August prettifun collab \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/on.soundcloud.com\/wheLoa5vMT9xLzwD7\">sephora step<\/a>,\u201d where ivvys takes the basic melody loop of Playboi Carti\u2019s \u201cAin\u2019t Got Time\u201d and stacks precarious drums atop its delicate arpeggios \u2014 it\u2019s a wonder the song doesn\u2019t fall apart under its own weight, but prettifun\u2019s tender falsetto breezily flutters through its polyrhythmic crevasses.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-270320\" 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>\n            #stepTeam has an affinity for cheat code samples from the SoundCloud heyday of their youth, and it\u2019s here that the collective\u2019s production ethos is most apparent. The crew\u2019s drums crib from the ambient trap of DPM (Deep and Powerful Music), but seem equally influenced by the way EDM toys with anticipated drops. Take sxprano\u2019s work behind the boards on xhulooo and 1600j\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/on.soundcloud.com\/YguCZbCDvWnDXzfB9\">step sisters<\/a>,\u201d where he throws twitchy snares over \u201cReal Sisters\u201d by Future, or \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/on.soundcloud.com\/hKY6EVr5UhTzdJyi7\">check please<\/a>,\u201d which refurbishes a long-abandoned Carti leak. Ultra-familiar melodies are rendered bizarre, practically grotesque, by novel downbeats, but #stepTeam\u2019s samples only get stranger when they chop things up.\n          <\/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-270323\" 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<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DI_2vBWRFen\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DI_2vBWRFen\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" background:#FFFFFF; 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DI_2vBWRFen\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by Chris Finesse (@chrisfinesse111)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-270322\" 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>\n            On \u201cvibes,\u201d ivvys turns a segment of Earl Sweatshirt and The Alchemist\u2019s <i>Voir Dire<\/i> into a twinkling backdrop for a caustically dismissive verse. And then there\u2019s the wonky, flatulent instrumental for \u201cblatts\u201d by maajins, which chipmunks a fragment of \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IzDBhKuTprc\">Stop Worry!<\/a>\u201d by MIKE and Sister Nancy into something harder and meaner (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/t6mikee\/status\/1881384132946870645?s=46&amp;t=KhK5H-GityiTyhAsiyqVuA\">MIKE\u2019s a fan<\/a>). Much like nu-jerk music, the unifying thread for the collective\u2019s work is in their drums more than any particular sonic palette, and while you still get flashes of maajins\u2019s Jersey Club roots and sxprano\u2019s trap-indebted sensibility, their production under the #stepTeam moniker is studiously syncopated and distinct from their solo work.\n          <\/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-270324\" 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>\n            ivvys grew up in Bridgeport, Connecticut, though he\u2019s lived down South \u201cnear Arkansas\u201d for the past couple years. Growing up, he says his mom played a lot of Christian rap and gospel around the house, while his dad was playing 03 Greedo and Gucci Mane. \u201cMy knowledge of rap started in third grade when \u2018Black Beatles\u2019 came out,\u201d he explains. \u201cWhen Post Malone dropped \u2018White Iverson,\u2019 I was in the back of the bus \u2013 that shit popped up on my <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> recommended and I was like <i>bro, what the fuck is this?<\/i> This shit is crazy, I gotta listen to more of this.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Just shy of a decade later, ivvys is helping to compose Billboard-charting melodies himself, thanks to a coproduction credit on Ken Carson\u2019s latest album <i>More Chaos<\/i>, though he\u2019s far from satisfied. Over the course of our conversation, I get the sense that the burgeoning producer, who graduated high school last year, is deadset on maximizing his moment by sheer effort. The idea of striking while the iron\u2019s hot crops up a couple times in our conversation, and ivvys certainly practices his preachings. The day after we talk, he\u2019ll drop <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/on.soundcloud.com\/EwTSiL5nHxFtxMhB6\"><i>AUDIO<\/i><\/a>, a short mixtape of collaborations including features from angelus, boofpaxkmooky, and 1600j; over the subsequent weeks, he\u2019ll be intermittently flogging a $50 drum kit and various beat sales on his Instagram story, occasionally reminding viewers to \u201ccome bready\u201d or get blocked.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            The FADER caught up with ivvys to chat about learning to produce from his dad, the foundation of #stepTeam, and the recording process behind his January single \u201cBikini.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-270330\" 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=\"ivvys - madoka (dir. by amor)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5mK3eaAwJgQ?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('270330');\n<\/script><\/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-270325\" 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>\n            <b>The FADER: When did you first start making music?<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <b>ivvys:<\/b> When I was eight, I seen my dad make Chief Keef beats on FL 10. He had the square, boxy, pretty loud Gateway laptop, and it was in the living room \u2013 it never got touched until he was like, \u201cI&#8217;m making beats on it.\u201d Then I&#8217;ll be watching him cook up and I was fascinated.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            So he was asleep one time, he was taking a nap. He had a long day. I was tapping him repeatedly and he woke up. He was like, \u201cYo, what you want little n***a?\u201d I&#8217;m like, \u201coh, I\u2019m just trying to make beats, that shit look pretty cool.\u201d He&#8217;s like, \u201cAlright, bro, but if I teach you, you gotta stay up, you can&#8217;t go to sleep, you can&#8217;t be too bored.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            So little me, I ain\u2019t gon lie I fell asleep a couple times, but he was tapping me like, \u201cNah, you locked in. You gotta pay attention.\u201d And then as I got older, say 14, 15, we just started cooking up together. But I didn&#8217;t know how to use FL at the time for real. I was on [the free in-browser DAW] SoundTrap, believe it or not, until 14. And I would just be doing drums on [my dad\u2019s] loops, and then I found the underground through SoundCloud.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <b>Fast forward a little bit to when you started developing your own personal sound.<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            I\u2019d say a year or two prior. I used to make ambient beats and I would use lots of Timeless 3 [delay plugin], some shit like that. I was just experimenting with VSTs and drums. And I used to listen to a lot of the ambient artists in the community, like ian before he blew up and started doing trap. I listened to a lot of kujo, lot of Izaya Tiji, a lot of Xang. I used to listen to a lot of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/110011110011\">theo<\/a>, shoutout theo.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            So I was learning how they make their drums flow, [but] it was kind of terrible, what I was making a couple years back. But I started working at it, and then I started sampling and other bullshit. I just decided to incorporate kicks and weird cadences and all that shit you see today. When I announced #stepTeam was gonna be a thing, people tried to play me like I was crazy or like I was some clone of n***as I was inspired by, and that shit ain\u2019t really make me feel good. So before everything took off I was really demotivated. I was like, \u201cshould I even continue with this shit?\u201d Shit had me fucked up for a bit.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-270326\" 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>\n            <b>When you sit down to make some music, what\u2019s your process?<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Can\u2019t lie, I first start with trying to find a vibe. If I\u2019m being so honest with you man, the drums are just straight improvisation, bro. I don\u2019t prefire drums, I don\u2019t use MIDIs and all that for my drums. I really just improvise with what sounds good and what could make sense when it\u2019s being penciled in the software. As complicated as step sounds for someone who\u2019s never heard it before now, it\u2019s really not that hard to make. Nor is it easy, but it\u2019s definitely not hard. It\u2019s really simple, you just gotta not overcomplicate it and you can really make like, the best beat of your fucking life.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <b>What\u2019s interesting to me is that you have busy instrumentals, but at the same time, you\u2019re really good about having space on your beats: actual room for the elements to breathe. How do you balance those impulses?<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            I do it by adding <i>more<\/i> drums and sound effects. For example, if I want something totally balanced, I want to add too many kicks more than high hat rolls, or like, I want to have too many more hi hat rolls than kicks. I would always just keep a minimal amount of [one] and then just scatter them pattern-wise to the point where it just makes sense. There\u2019s just no reason to ever overcomplicate drums and all that shit.\n          <\/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-270327\" 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>\n            <b>Let&#8217;s take it back to the founding of #stepTeam. How did you and maajins and sxprano connect?<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            I\u2019ve known [sxprano] three years, he used to make pluggnb, so I met him doing that shit on YouTube. I\u2019ve truly known maajins a bit longer than sxprano but we just never talked because maajins was like Superman in the eyes of little kid producers. [Laughs] N***as had no name at that time, like I wasn\u2019t even ivvys then. I was in no position to be like, \u201cyou tryna work? send mels [<i>note: short for &#8220;melodies&#8221;<\/i>]\u201d y\u2019know? If you DM a producer trying to work with them and you don\u2019t have a plan, bro? Every time you DM someone, always have a plan in mind. It just make everything smoother.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Two years later I was jumping on [Maajin\u2019s] loops, making some hot shit, and then [a couple of my friends] were on a call one day, and they\u2019re talking about my weird drums, and they said, \u201cBro this sound like a step team competition,\u201d like on some wild shit, lots going on. And I was in the call with all my friends and then sxprano jumped in like, \u201cYoo I just got off the call with maajins.\u201d I was like, \u201cWhat happened?\u201d He\u2019s like, \u201cwe were just clowning your beats.\u201d And I\u2019m like, \u201c<i>N***a<\/i>.\u201d And he\u2019s like, \u201cRelax, relax, we were just saying it sounds like some step team shit.\u201d And then as soon as he say \u201cstep team\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cHmm.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <b>It sounds like what you\u2019re describing is you and your friends all make crazy music on your own, and now you\u2019re basically on some casual competition shit with each other to make better music. Is that an accurate read?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Honestly? Yes, but sometimes no. It\u2019s how much chemistry we all have, y\u2019know? This is a chemistry based group, that\u2019s why everything goes so fucking well.\n          <\/p>\n<\/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-270333\" 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=\"ivvys - tek it (dir. zahnolyver)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QwrHp-wH-8Q?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('270333');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-270328\" 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>\n            <b>How did the Ken Carson placement come together?<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            My friend Four3va, he said I should make him melodies, and then the mel for that specific song [\u201cNaked\u201d] I made in December of last year. I sent it to my friend mental and then they made a mel off of it, and then sent the zip file to Four3va. And then he sent that over to Ken. It was crazy.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            <b>When you\u2019re recording music or making beats, do you usually finish an idea in one sitting? Or do you go back and edit a lot?<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            When I think of an idea for a crazy ass song, right? Like \u201cBikini,\u201d I was bored on FL one night and Sammy texted saying, \u201cyo, Synthetic sent loops\u2026 go crazy.\u201d I heard the mel to \u201cBikini,\u201d [and] something just spoke out to me. It didn\u2019t sound like how [it does on the song] the first time. So I had to pitch it down, speed it up a little bit. As soon as I made it perfect, I stayed up for a good six hours. I didn\u2019t sleep that night. I did not let that idea slip my damn head until I got it in the most complete form.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Once I have an idea, it\u2019s either I do it the best possible, like with the best meaning possible, or just not at all. I\u2019m not a fan of returning to ideas, but at the same time it\u2019s probably better if I start doing that, because [my skills have progressed].\n          <\/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-270329\" 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>\n            <b>When you think about the music you\u2019ve been making over the past year, where do you feel like you\u2019ve been growing and evolving?<\/b>\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            It&#8217;s definitely the consistency of everything. Back then, when I assumed nothing would take off because it was type beats and shit, I was getting demotivated. I wasn\u2019t really making as much as I should, pushing myself as much as I should. It was kind of terrible. But at the same time, I always saw that one glimmer of hope and direction of shit like, <i>Dude, you know this is your life<\/i>.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            I just winged it, started getting more consistent. And when I started getting more consistent, I seen my sound change. And when I listen to music, I study <i>the hell<\/i> out of it. Everything I listen to I\u2019m not gonna love, [so I] get inspiration from random ass things. It sounds weird, but every single thing I do to incorporate rhythm was a weird thing I just did.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-270331\" 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=\"ivvys - amIhuman (dir. ri6geee)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lx_Cet-7xdA?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('270331');\n<\/script><\/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<\/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<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/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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