I know. Just briefly break down what it means to you all. Where did you look to? As soon as I come home, not really into homework like that, we making beats. Now, you know, trap is EDM music too. Like, âDang, I donât want them to know.â You know, that I do this, and certain people do know. Then I got the actual ⦠I donât know what it was, it was something like a MPC, then I just started messing with that. Zaytoven It was about the importance of branding your actual production in that classic âJust Blaaaaaze!â I canât do that though because Zay has his own sound. Itâs all about timing, man. I got maybe three keyboards, two drum machines, all type of equipment in my studio. I was at the barbershop cutting hair. It made it a lot easier, though. I thought, âman thatâs a accident boyâ I ainât ... That was a good accident. Thatâs a record thatâs ridiculously hard. Originally it wasnât always like that for me. Sonny Digital Good evening. Itâs sitting there. Welcome to Red Bull Music Academy. But having the knowledge of knowing how to sample is good, though because we take, when we do collab with Zay and stuff, we treat like what he send us, like the stems, just like samples. Zaytoven Noz For me, it just kind of came from when I was listening to everything he was doing and Shorty-red and Drumma and all that stuff. Itâs up to yâall, but with a â50 On My Wristâ the way the record came⦠I just do my thing at the crib. Now, just to this point, Iâm okay for the music type shit, or whatâs going to sound the craziest. Torsten Schmidt If I want it to sound a certain way, I just learn how to play it that way. Thatâs a way where you donât even have to deal with all that other stuff. I started producing, but then I started rapping, and I started making beats because I needed beats to rap on. Wildly influential, current titans of the music production game Metro Boomin, Sonny Digital and Zaytoven showed New York this past weekend how the South is running at a … That was one of the songs we were debating on but didnât make the cut. I just signed a messed up deal, it brought me down, I was knee deep in the game so I couldnât really just stop working. How do you guys specifically navigate that eternal struggle between the kick drum and anything else thatâs bassy and how to separate them so that everyoneâs got their room and it cuts through? Like I said, I was already knee deep in the game, people already knew me, and I had like a good support system. Another thing too, hey look⦠Zay too, Zay plays a very vital part. Zaytoven How do you make any money off that as a producer? For real. Metro Boomin A brutal record. What Andrew hasnât told you, heâs been with us for a minute, heâs also got a show on RBMA Radio, and heâs been running a blog called Cocaine Blunts for a minute. Itâs several options. Really, the reason why it happened like that was because I didnât know how to go in there and chop the bass to stop it from overlapping, so I just-. "I got people coming up to me and they don't know if I'm Metro [Boomin] or Sonny, and I've been here for 10 years, so I'm done.". 2018-04-12T12:37:19Z Comment by andui Thatâs how people is seeing songs and stuff now. Ended up in that weird ass predicament. ", As a possible result of his frustration, but a true passion as well, Sonny shared that he's now shifting gears and putting all his energy into a career as an MC. We ainât got no time to be going back and forth. I be back. Keep it like that. I be freestyling all the songs too. You might hear âShitâ and âCovered N Moneyâ or something like that on an album and think, âThis is what he was on right now,â but one of those couldâve been from two years ago. I think backstage we had asked you which record youâre proudest of, and you told us... All the time. They coming in, just getting mixtape placement. I donât know if yâall do. He didnât like really have a drop on there, but he would be on the beginning. Metro Boomin I just do my job. You know what Iâm saying? They wrote this on this last album, so theyâre going to write the song.â Just a whole bunch of stuff. Sonny Digital. I mean, I donât run away from them, but I try to stay away from them. Zay put on another beat then. I want producers to not be scared to like hop on their own beats. I didnât use the tag until later on, when I started hearing a lot of beats that sound like mine. Watch Metro Boomin, Zaytoven and Sonny Digital Drop Knowledge on Production Three of hip-hop’s hottest producers in one room. I donât know. Noz Minus the church. Genre Chief Keef Comment by hopachoups. Oh, man. I think backstage we had asked you which record youâre proudest of, and you told us... âSo Icy.â Thatâs the song that got me in the game man, so Iâm always going to proud of that. I didnât know who Young Jeezy was. Does the hip-hop world need to put some respect on Sonny's name and further acknowledge his accomplishments? You guys got to do the song we came down here to do. Metro, Iâm not going to put you on blast, but I did find what I believe to be your childhood YouTube channel. It was fun, too. Well you know, you hoping for, in this music we always hoping for a big song. This question is very quick for Metro though. When I thought about trap, the reason why I feel the trap music that I started making with Gucci and OJ and those type of guys was different is because when I think of trap, I think of something thatâs unrehearsed, itâs somethingâs that edgy, not too well put together. He do his own thing, but for real. One of the things I want to talk to you guys about is, I guess the word that most commonly comes up in reference to your music is trap music. I donât know how to sample with the keyboard, or put something in. What are your memories of the music in that era? You know what Iâm saying? I really like the beat a lot though. It was fun, too. Where it seems like a lot of the records you guys worked on, become kind of specific blueprints for what everybody does, in the industry. It taught me a lesson to be like, this is what the people want. Noz Metro, howâs it going down there? Produced by Sonny Digital & Metro Boomin. Noz Thatâs a seven day week? Now, with that in mind, how did you end up going south? He used to hit me a lot, though, I ainât going to lie. Ja wurde hier. Yeah, they got to come to Atlanta. To me thatâs what trap is. What were your sources? By Metro Boomin & Tm 88] 08 Metro Boomin - Interlude [Prod. Exactly, and thatâs what people need to understand because they just look at it like weâre just playing a game, or something. I give a lot of credit, I give a lot of credit to Gucci, because he gave me the confidence. Zay can tell you some more about that, if he wants. Shout out. Iâm going to say this one was real significant to my Morehouse experience because it came out when I was still in school. You know Iâm saying? How deep are you involved in the production of the vocals and the tracking? I went through that for so long, bro, like so many years. Metro Boomin Just everything. Like, nothing completely about. I forgot, howâd you come over to my house? Thatâs like infiltrating what weâre doing. It was cool and everything, but you know. Metro Boomin Iâm just saying, where do you keep the balance of doing what youâre actually doing, but still feeling like theyâre heard. Itâs cool. I canât even explain. I feel like by me being one of those kids before, I approach all those kids a different way. Sonny Digital I really donât remember how it got there but it was there. It was a lot with that record but it was a blessing and a curse. I donât know if a human being is really smarter than a computer. But when you crack it, and you really work it like how he was saying, if you was doing anything, you just going to get better, and you going to figure out how to do what you need to do. I mean it come with the stigma though, producer, rapper. Music ⦠I donât know why God put me in to be the trap king of music when Iâm an organist at the church but, you know, Iâm going with it. Can we talk about Migos I guess, I think thatâs a good entry point, something Iâve been thinking about a lot. Their trap music was real theatrical. We had just came off of âRacksâ and letâs just keep on working, it only makes sense. He would be working, recording his own vocal takes, and just sent you the vocals? Definitely like to get into all that. Hoping to make it on the album, or hoping one of these songs blow up, so they can get their time to shine. You know? Or put the right thing on there and itâs going to bring it to life. That was our just breakout song. Itâs good to have even the people in church support what I do, because I still carry and conduct myself a certain way. To his left, we got Sonny Digital, who has produced some enormous hits the past few years. You may know him from being one of the main producers behind Gucci Maneâs hot streak. You get real creative with that, but itâs still ... You know what Iâm saying? Iâm pretty sure he feels like itâs easy, but that shit to me, I be like, âBro! I be like, âOkay, cool.â I said, âIâll be back, It donât matter, Iâll be around.â. Noz Itâs missing something.â Sent the session to Zay and he sent it right back with all the perfect parts. Heâs got it on smash, though. Boom, golden, coming back to me. We got the knowledge of how to work with samples, though, but I just try to kind of stay away from them though. I had bothered a lot of people via Twitter in high school, just to send beats and shit like that. Iâm a hardware guy. Sonny Digital I was young, when you young and you start doing something, it usually starts out as a hobby. Youâve got to use some of them to build your brand and be able to make money off of it though. Zaytoven Sonny Digital I donât even know how to sample. Thatâs what makes sense and I know heâs going to look out for me. Like I said, I was already knee deep in the game, people already knew me, and I had like a good support system. We were in the studio, my publishing company set it up, it just started getting all weird and shit, man. I had to stop going altogether. Really, just working at it, man. On Netflix, I believe. You must have terabytes with ad-libs lying around the house, right? He had charisma so I think the trap music that we did was something totally different. One of the things thatâs really nice having the three of you on the couch is seeing ... You guys look like family, like youâve known each other forever. I donât even care what they sound like, Iâm just making them. It wasnât a job for me, it was something I just liked doing. Not with a specific artist but with a writer. Iâm sorry. But when you crack it, and you really work it like how he was saying, if you was doing anything, you just going to get better, and you going to figure out how to do what you need to do. It was cool, it just made sense. I was always like, âOkay man, at least I got it.â You know? A lot. Like he said, if Iâve got my own lane, or Iâve got a sound already that people, they like, and theyâre accustomed to, Iâm just really sticking to my sound, adding new pieces, and a few new sounds, but for the most part, doing what I do. We had never even met each other before, though. Being creative, and making your own shit is the harder thing to do. That trap or die was a big part in it. You still are going to try but, you know. Thatâs big in itself. I like to make music fast. Like hop on that shit up. Stream Digital Boomin Mafia Mixtape by Metro Boomin, Sonny Digital, 808 Mafia, Lex Luger, DJ Spinz + More Hosted by Parker Layman A collection of super-producer collaborations between the hottest producers in the game. You know what Iâm saying? It was like, âYeah, thatâs my boy.â We were crazy. It made it a lot easier. I guess before we go to the music, earlier on when you said that music sounded so hard, I think thatâs something where every young producer struggles because theyâve got this idea in their head, and whatever theyâre playing back to themselves just doesnât sound that well. His crib is very vital in the community. It comes from me working with a guy like Gucci, who felt like I could do no wrong. This song, man itâs kind of ugh.â Heâs just going to go and make it happen and just put something on there. What you mean? These are all of our scales, our melodies, all this shit is from scratch from our brain. It was like, âAll right. You donât make it to Zay crib, you ainât nowhere. Iâm a church musician. No leaks. You ainât got no equipment.â Thatâs what really threw me off. Zay the type of person I can call on and be like, âMan. You know what Iâm saying? Thatâs why I feel like that song was a blessing and a curse, because it was so much newness coming through the door at one time. You know what Iâm saying? When I get up in the morning, I might take my kids to school, then I might make five, ten beats. To bass? I want people to understand that, itâs just a smarter business move to hop on your beats and do your own stuff and thatâs a hundred percent right there. Yeah. Thatâs how I keep up. Weâre very excited to have three of hip hopâs greatest producers right now, I think, with us ... Weâre going to get into it with them in a few. Later on down the line thatâs when it came back in my life again. Zaytoven When youâre working on a song like that with Future, do you just pass him the beat and be like, âGo for it,â or does he have an idea in his head that you help him execute? Also, I think a lot of these guys also come from the same pool of producing for Gucci, Young Thug, just this network of super-talented Atlanta artists. Sonny Digital In the music industry, itâs a lot of stuff thatâs manufactured hits. I respect this shit too much to even like let anybody else hear what -. Whatâs going on? It was dirty, it had a real, dirty edgy feel to it. Keeps me competitive. Thatâs when I get to really see and connect with a lot of those people, and make them feel good, because they make me feel good, at the end of the day. He didnât like really have a drop on there, but he would be on the beginning. The vibe was totally different. 50 Cent ft Justin Timberlake + Metro Boomin + Sonny Digital = Ayo Technology by duncan gerow 4 published on 2020-05-15T21:52:36Z w/ ILoveMakonnen "Tuesday" The stuff Zaytoven was making was when you were a little kid. We donât really try to separate it like that. Thatâs a way where you donât even have to deal with all that other stuff. Torsten Schmidt Letâs give it a listen for those of you who havenât had the chance to hear this. Iâm not going to lie. I just enjoyed just having the Zaytoven approval, I was like âshit, man, Iâm in there. Itâs good for everybody, âZay going hard, Zay the truth.â Then you start listening to people asking about Sonny Digital, then âI need some Metro.â Itâs like, âWait a minute, hold on, what you mean? We really was ⦠We sent stuff through the emails and stuff, thatâs how we was working, because everything we was making was just coming back gold. We can still even call Zay and be like, âyou replay this over right quick, bro. I thought about going back and diving way deeper back into the piano thing again. A writer done had some weird issues. Weâre very excited to have three of hip hopâs greatest producers right now, I think, with us ... Weâre going to get into it with them in a few. Zaytoven For real. How do you guys keep having that friendly competition going on instead of having it devolve into unfriendly? With Future did you, at that point, see him getting as big as heâs become? So the music that we was making, the music that you was talking about that you listen to in your fifth grade, it means that we were in there making songs that we wasnât trying to make perfect. Any suggestions? Everybody was in Atlanta too so it was cool to me. They the guys that really keep me relevant. I didnât make beats to try to make it ... You know, be a big producer. Noz You know what Iâm saying? Why was this record in particular significant to your Morehouse experience? Thatâs how we keep up. Sonny Digital I know. Zaytoven Sonny Digital That was a big thing. How do you maintain that vibe once you get called to New York, Los Angeles or whatever, and people go, âWe want some of that.â, No. I went through that for so long, bro, like so many years. Sonny, I know that youâve been rapping before you started producing, but you just started getting significant as a rapper right now. This nigger just sent me some fire, nigger. That was our just breakout song. Metro Boomin At some stage, some lawyer will sit there and go, âOkay, what is the writing split on this?â Everything fair down the middle. I mean, even if you donât have a drop, I just feel like you should bring yourself somehow. Noz When they see Sonny Digital â50 On My Wristâ or something like that, they might think itâs somebody else, and might not even know itâs me, and before they figure it out itâs me, they might say itâs cool. & Metro Boomin. âSo Icy.â Thatâs the song that got me in the game man, so Iâm always going to proud of that. I was just going to let it slide. You know. I donât care. Ainât nothing else. You know what Iâm saying? How do you sustain that? I was cutting hair years after Icy came out. My bad, what did you say Zay? Are there other scenes that influenced whatâs going on in Atlanta right now, whatâs the pre-history of all this? Real G.O.A.T. I just signed a messed up deal. Everything Zay do is hard.â I made a West Coast beat because Iâm coming from the West Coast. I went home and I went back and listened to it again. How are you doing? Heâd be like, âYeah, boy,â and I just feel like that was one of the dopest things to me back then when I was younger. Yes. Sonny Digital Yes, sir. Then I could stay back at home and just keep on making them too, thatâs how much we was working. We put them in a folder and he starts from the bottom and just does them all. I was just trying to fulfill my role and shit though, I was just trying to, they set it up, I was just trying to be a team player. You know what Iâm saying? Brought that Fruity Loops over there. He birthed all of us, for real. Metro Boomin I went in with Nipsey, with Nipsey Hussle. If it was a function, it would be out of control. Metro Boomin I didnât even know him like that though, but I didnât know him so I kept him at bay. Iâm real grateful for that. Thatâs the reason Iâm even in music. He started coming over every day, so we doing songs with each other. It got both our names hotter. No doubt, definitely, man. Noz Noz Could you recall? We good.â. I kind of go to bed early when I can and I get up early. Yeah, I just throw whatever in there. This is just somebody else that I fuck with. I was going in the store, like âHey yâall know I made the Versace song, can I get some shoes or something?â No, they ainât want to do nothing but take some pictures, they ainât want to give me no clothes. By … Metro Boomin I did it myself. Well Sundays, I get inspired more on Sundays. 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