It’s not easy making videos and trying to have enough content to go out every day makes it even tougher. Secondly, it’s like a form of giving back. So I decided to be that person that I would have wanted to at least give me some tips when I was starting out or when I just didn’t know what to do next. I used to reach out to some people and wouldn’t get a response or if I did it wasn’t anything helpful. First, when I was just starting out I never had anyone to help give me tips or guidance on what to do, what not to do, etc. What made you want to reach out to people and create videos based on production, helpful tips, etc.? You upload videos daily on your Youtube channel which has over 12,000 subscribers. I went from being someone who would bug someone to pay attention to my music to now they want to use the beats I sent them three years ago. I remember exactly where I was when Wiz dropped his remix and I listened to it over and over. Wiz, Jeezy, and Wayne, to name a few did remixes.
There were remixes from artists I used to listen to every day and just hope and pray that one day I could hear them on my work. Then there were the many different remixes. I was amazed by how many people loved it. Once, she released it and it grew, I knew that this was what I was going to be doing. I was just trying to find a way to make something happen with my music before I went to find another job. I had lost my job a few months prior so money was low, and stress was high.
I felt like I was at rock bottom before “Try Me” had blown up. But she was using a nice amount of my beats.Īfter that, my life changed drastically. Prior to Dej only three people actually used my stuff and that was maybe only one track. I loved it and I was happy that she actually used something I sent. Fast forward a few weeks or so, she sent it back to me and asked me what I thought. I made it, felt like she may like it and sent it. So in that time frame, I had lost my job and was sitting home one night and decided that I wanted to make a happier beat than what I usually would make. If you really want to work with someone, do it. I wanted to include that so other producers will see that it’s not all about the money. Keep in mind I wasn’t asking for money or anything. If I made something, I would ask myself how would she sound on it, and send it so she had a lot of my beats. Over the course of 4 or 5 months, I was sending her about 75 percent of the beats I completed. I had tons of beats that no one was using, so when she replied that she liked one specific beat and wanted to hear more I sent a lot. I followed her management at the time and saw that they were looking for beats for upcoming projects, so I sent an email.
When I heard her voice and style, I immediately wanted to work with her. I heard a few of her tracks back on the IBGM mixtape. How did the Dej Loaf situation come about? How did your life change after you saw how fast people were catching on to the track? Not only did people want to know who was that pint-sized girl singing the catchy hook, but they also wanted to know who was the person behind the production of the song. “Try Me,” by Dej Loaf was the biggest breakout hit of 2014. If it wasn’t for music I don’t know what I’d be doing. But once I went to school for graphic design I lost my love for it and fell deeper into music. I made a nice amount of money doing that through high school so I thought that I was going to be a graphic designer. During the MySpace days, I used to sell custom layouts that I used to design. I was always working on music in my spare time. Honestly, I made music for years before earning any money from it.
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