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Seeing that "A Milli" beat breakdown at 6:05 blew my mind. It's one of my favorite mainstream beats. Thought it was way more complex than that! Seeing how most of these beats are done in a single pattern (essentially) is a good reminder to not to overthink or overcomplicate.
All you need is a vibe. Let the artist do their thing. Also artists will add to your beat. That eee-yeah on Fukumean by Gunna was added by him and his crew
@@Phosphor_Sco honestly the bar has only gotten higher now the market is saturated, back then it was more about if you had connections and could make something half decent
@ScottThePisces the part of the market that is saturated only makes mid beats that we've all heard over and over again. To make something unique but still inspire an artist is the balance we need to find. My opinion at least
For a second there, I thought we were getting that Mannie Fresh breakdown video! We didn't, but this works just as well! Pay your producers! Thanks, Navie.
Awesome to hear at one point Mannie only used 8 tracks! I'm still using Ableton lite (8 tracks/2 returns) - that's really all you need for a solid beat I think
I 100% agree that 8 tracks are enough. I use Ableton lite (8 tracks) or Polyend tracker which also has only 8 tracks and a lot of limitations, fortunately
I remember this when it happened. Mannie Fresh lost out on even more Millions$$$ because other artist and records Labels where reaching out to Cash Money for him to produce for them. Mannie Fresh found this out years later when seeing all these people at different events. Cash Money never told him anything.
You could see how he instantly became a hitmaker when he left Cashmoney too, making the flagship singles for both Jeezy's Thug Motivation and TI's King.
Damn that is a super f****** shame now it explains why whenever people ask me if there was one person I would have to say influenced me wanting to make my own music that gave me the idea while Kobe is going to give me a perfect down time and they'll be tons of resources probably not available usually and next thing you know I mean it's not like I'm a complete noob I spent three years always getting pulled in on my brother and his buddies projects to help pick samples tell him what's wrong basically so I didn't blindly just jump off a cliff saying I have no clue if I can make good music and hear whether it is
I tell you man it gets to be so bad with how much I love once you get under 115 BPM almost anything I make I have to change things after an export I always go that way
So many of the best beats, are some of the simplest! And, yes, treat the producers right! In the long run, building solid relationships will only help.
Had no idea about any of this, thanks for the consistent hip hop 101 courses, brother! And the beat recreations of course. Great format and concise, entertaining result, my dude. You're def in a group of like maybe 7 people I click on every time I see thier thumbnail pop up.
Great video. Could you make a video on RZAs production. The way you explain everything is really helpful and i would be more then happy for a RZA video.
This was a very dope very. I was a big Cash Money and No Limit fan back in the 99-2000. Can you do a video on Beats by the Pound (Medicine Men) that used to be with No Limit. Btw they didnt get paid properly either.
I remember Bangladesh saying he never got paid for the A Milli beat. Thats terrible considering how that song was the hottest song in 2008, was all over the airwaves and won Wayne a Grammy. Hell even R&B artists did remixes to it. Shows how shady the industry is with producers.
That's all Birdman. He wasnt paying his own artists right lol. Turk left. Juve left. BG left. Wayne stuck it out until he wanted to leave in like 2015 because Birdman was stealing millions from him whom he called his son. Birdman is a snake
Grew up with that joint, that was the go-to song to show off your car stereo and sub. I remember all my older cousins blasting that era of Wayne, shit is dirty.
Another layer to the Milli drama - the beat was actually produced by Chal-lo who was signed at the time to Shondre (bang) Thats why milli dosent sound like any other Bangladesh beat but that was Cha-lo's whole minimal sound - he also produced the drop for rich boy for polow da don.
3:16 the tone here is based on the early chirp Nextel phones. And the drums with the reverb where Chads weapon of choice. Listen to any early Neptunes production.
His beats resonate far more on a guttural level than the beats of many of those producers, he just doesn't serve artists who are considered "high art" in hip hop, but how well the Cash Money music traveled speaks for itself.
This video is great my man great explanation, but Lil Wayne shouldn’t be on the title when Birdman was the one that owned Young Money records at that time
hm. neptunes did eventually work with wayne after that with 'yes' and 'aye man', 'troublemaker' and a few other records it is also worth noting that birdman had a verse the first version of clipse 'champion' with mack maine from til the casket drops. all of those records ended up being leaks
There’s nothing unusual about the clap placement. It’s called swing. If you don’t want your beat to sound terrible; it’s one of the things you can use to make it sound better.
Well being from New Orleans Mannie didn’t leave over money he left because he wanted to do more work actually in R&B and not Hip hop but not getting paid by Birdman made it even easier for him to go out their by himself and leave. Now probably one you should do a deep dive is KLC which produced for No limit than whole bunch of Atlanta, Memphis,Texas rappers. Cool thing about Mannie back in the 90’s during all my underground hip hop days Mannie was coming to underground shows to check out what was gone on a lot of us were friends with one of Mannie Cousins who did underground hip hop and also punk rock music he would get Mannie to come out.
lots of people in hip hop do shit business (i can say this i’ve worked in hip hop for half a decade now). it’s more rare to see someone who doesn’t do shit like this
2:26 the clap placement you say is “really unusual” but if you know New Orleans, it’s based on bounce and booty music. I see where you’re coming from in terms of Mannie Fresh’s greatness, but yea, not unusual for the region at all.
Drag em the River was This Shit that open that door! And Dj Jubilee's song "Back That Ass Up" was Stolen! I heard it and he won! But u is Absolutely Right!!! About a lot what u said!!
He was really the first person I can think of that I can always identify a song Manny fresh did I mean there's so many but I really loved how he would genre bend two things sample wise that you shouldn't believe would go together like mariachi band trumpets with operatic elements
@@custompetitivex2821 crackle is from ur cpu being under heavy load. either upgrade cpu or close some plugins, background programs, etc. Sometimes u have a plugin minimized but its not rly closed and it can take up resources as well.
In my personal opinion, I’m not all that crazy about the “A Milli” beat. I’ll find it hard to believe that people would care about that beat if Wayne didn’t have a legendary verse on it. It’s good to have simple beats. It’s good to have not too much going on. I’m just not feeling that beat. When I think of “A Milli,” I think of “I’m a young money millionaire, tougher than Nigerian hair.” But that’s just me.
I remember listening to hot97 and ciphasounds said how he sent Wayne a beat, that he loved but Wayne wrote president Carter to it and had someone else make the same exact beat so they never gave cipha his credit (or money)
It's crazy how many billboard hits in hip hop literally had 5 sounds or less in them! It's not that shocking to me though. Lord knows out of the thousands of instrumentals I've produced over the years many of my best beats follow this same (KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID) logic! Producers really need to do a better job with asking themselves.. "does this instrumental need MORE than just vocals added to it at this point?" If you can't confidently say YES and you keep trying to add other elements that just don't seem to be working, often times you'll realize the only thing it's missing is the vocals!
Typical corporate restructuring. Smart creatives make the business work and create value, then the administrators take over and force out the creatives - because they're dull and boring whatever their IQ.
interesting how today those beats would be considered to have too much going on, even with only 8 sounds 😂 now we use double the tracks, and try to make enough room for an artist to get on it.
All of us producers don't get enough credit at allim sick of it i know a few rappers told me they don't pay for beats i don't understand but i do know this been happening before My time
