That’s just how my brain processes stuff.” But that goes for when I’m making beats, I can make a trap beat- whatever y’all people call ‘trap’- and then I can go straight R&B, I can go straight weirdo lane or whatever.
“I’m an Aries but I be thinking I’m a Gemini sometimes because one minute I’m thinking like this, and five minutes later I’m thinking like that. TM’s mind seems so awash with ideas that he has to switch it up every now and then out of necessity, not a desire to pander to different artists: The former is expansive, epic and lush, while the latter is grimy and cold.
Two were highlights, one coming in on the Chris Brown and Migos-assisted “Moses” and the other on “5 Mo” featuring Travi$ Scott and Lil Durk. Such was the case on French Montana’s recent Casino Life 2, to which TM contributed a few beats. He turns in such wildly varying beats that even when two end up appearing on the same project, they’ll often sound nothing alike. In contrast, TM’s never really had a specific sound that’s his calling card, and his longevity in the game might be because of that. Ultimately though, Luger’s simple-but-thrilling formula fell by the wayside, and his output has dropped off quite a bit these days. So I mixed the scary shit with the hard knocking 808 to give you that feel, the chest pump, that feeling like you wanna get drunk or whatever.” However, he did look up to Lil Jon, an ATL icon who had risen from a background role to the forefront of tracks like “Get Low” and Usher’s “Yeah.” “Everybody wanted to be like Lil Jon,” TM says, “I saw him everywhere.”Īlthough he wasn’t technically a member of 808 Mafia, Lex Luger was the first guy in TM’s circle to really break out, producing most of Waka Flocka’s scene-defining Flockaveli in 2010 and collaborating with Kanye West and Jay Z less than a year later. “I love old hip hop, ‘cause it reminds me of when I was a kid,” TM says, “But I don’t want to make it. That interest in old-school horror soundtracks over the soul, funk and rock that provided the sonic blueprint for early hip hop is key in modern trap music, where heavy synths, eerie piano lines and synthetic percussion have taken the place of dusty loops and drum breaks. So he showed me, and I made my first beat and went around the whole neighborhood, playing it out of little boomboxes and shit.”
#BEAT TAG HOW TO#
He was making a beat, and I was like, ‘Man, I wanna make a beat, show me how to make that Michael Myers’. “I woke up and walked to my cousin’s crib one morning, and I seen in his room that he had a program called Fruity Loops.
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