I was just listening to it one night and said to myself I should make this into a tag and put it in front of my beats so everyone would know I did the track. What I did was I got my niece in the studio, I recorded her just rapping or something and it just came out organically. When I was doing songs with cats they weren’t shouting me out so nobody would know who did the beat. How did you come up with your signature tag? When my partner Meek Mill came out it kind of changed the game in the Tri-State area. Around that time in Philly, they had a NY-type sound when Jay-Z was running the game with State Property, Beanie Sigel, and all of them. I had moved to Atlanta when I was 19 and I went to college in Buckhead I kind of grasped their sound - the down south 808’s - and I brought it back home. After awhile I started making original music, and as I got older I started to get into the clubs and started to see the atmosphere of how the music makes the people move so I started to make a lot of club music and that’s where I got most of my buzz from, making music for the club and the radio. I get a lot of influence from Swizz Beatz to Mannie Fresh and The Neptunes. I started to shy away from the sampling and do strictly original beats. That helped me develop my style that I have now. I was strictly doing sample music -70’s R&B, old rock ‘n’ roll, etc. When I first started, I was sampling-based. How did you go about crafting your sound? Was there anybody you patterned yourself after? Then we started making little mixtapes and giving them out when I was in high school, and that’s when I really started taking this seriously. My pop had given me this program, FL Studio, which is on the PC, and I started making beats on there and then I just got hooked. I really didn’t get into it until I was 12-years old. He had a home studio in the crib and he used to have us cut demos, rap and sing I cut my first demo when I was like 4 years old. He was into music heavy at a young age as well. He used to have a band back in the day so he had a musical background. Jahlil: My pop - he’s a producer and a certified engineer. VIBE: Give us some background on what sparked your interest in producing.
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