Mike Will Made-It (56:20)
Come on, man. Fat boy and Anzethoven, like, all of them. All of them were like, this is like the gladiators. So I'm in there. I remember the first time I ever went to the studio with Gucci. All them were in there. And then I'm just like, damn. I'm just. I'm hearing all that beats. I'm like this crazy. Like, I'm about to go home and go crazy. Like, then Gucci like, hey, this my young right here, man. Hey, put your beats on. I'm like, hell, nah, bro. Like in here with all these folks. Like, hell no, Goose like, man, what you nervous? Like, man, you a star, bro. Put your beats on. I'm like, boom. Put my beats on, man. Goose start freestyling and everybody in the room bobbing their head. And then I remember, KO had pulled me to a side and was like, man, you know what, man? Bro, what you may be song. I told him. He was like, bro, all you gotta do is focus on your kick and your snare. Everything else gonna fall in place. I was like, damn. I'm like, all right, bet. And so, man, me and Gucci Ended up doing, like, notepad, no pencil, Guapaholics, like, a lot of mixtape records. And I remember Gucci was like, now he had all these mixtapes out, but he's trying to, like, level up. He had called me to the house one day, and then, man, I had this bcd. I just know, like, it's like this, like, the notepad, no pencil 2.0. This, like, the. I'm just knowing, like. Cause all the songs that me and him did were, like, going in, like, the young nigga clubs, like, the clubs I was going to, like, the teen parties and all that shit. And so I'm like, man, I'm just knowing this. This. This is like the beat cd. So I pull up on him, he just skipping through the beats, and he like, man, you know what, Mike? I'm gonna tell you like I told Zayto, I'm trying to level up, bro. Y' all boys got to start giving me, like, some single type. Like, I'm trying to take my career to the next level. And I'm like, what, man? Goose, you on the Hollywood, bro. Like, man, these beats is it, bro? Like, man, this like East Atlanta six. It's like that. He's like, man, all these beats hard, but you need to give him the, like, Walker. Like somebody, you know I'm saying, somebody in the squad. But, man, for me, I feel like I'm trying to start leveling up. And I ain't know what he meant by that. And at this time, me and walking with each other every day, I was telling. Walking like, man, goose, somebody, he want to level up. He talking about these beats ain't ain't hard enough. Like. And then. And then walk a. Like, walking like, man, yeah, he been saying that lately, man. And the next thing you know, Gucci started coming with songs like Lemonade and I Think I Love her and all this type of shit I'm hearing, I'm like, damn, this what he mean? Like, like, okay, I see what it means. So now I'm starting to try to push my sound. But now my brother Walker, man, I know I've been pushing him to start rapping. And I know a lot of people were like, man, bro, you need to rap. You need to rap. But he wasn't trying to rap. So he finally started rapping. He called me. He do his first song. He like, man, Mike, hey, bro, I did my first song, bro. Man, listen at this. Put that. Put the. The phone to. To his headphones, played the joint. First song he did was we on the Way with Southside. And then he was like. He was like. I'm like, who the hell made that beat? And he like. He like, man, bro, it's this young name. Southside, bro. I gotta introduce y', all, boy. Like, man, I think. I think we're gonna. Man, he got to be part of the squad. And, bro, he remind me of the old Mike. Will he remind me, like, when. When you came on the scene, bro, like, with that hard, aggressive. Bro, like, your sound getting to Hollywood. And now I'm like, bro, Goose told me to level up. He like, man, that bro, man, man, getting way too Hollywood. So these are two. Two guys that, man, I look up to, like, rocking my big brother. I'm with him every day, seven days a week. And then Gucci, like, my big brother that's rapping on my beats, that's turning me up, that gave me the mic, what made it name, like, you know what I'm saying? So I'm like. I'm torn in between the two, and so that I feel like that's where my sound lies at. It's like, that pretty hard. It's like that out of here. But it's. It's always gonna make you like, God damn. Like, this is knocking, like, so it's like, oh, every song that I do, it's like, that's what I'm thinking about as far as, like, my sound in the eardrum or sound. And it's like, I feel like we've been putting it down in Atlanta for, like, 18 years now. 20 years now. Now it's considered, like, the Atlanta sound or, like, an old school Atlanta sound. But it's just. It's just like me being me. So it's like, I feel like advice to give other producers or artists or anything like that. It's like, man, make your own sound and believe in it even when you don't believe in it. Like, Gucci made me believe in that shit. Like, Gucci made me play my beats in front of all these dudes who I look up to, who I. Who I would have been like, if it was my choice, I would have been like, nah, I ain't gonna play it right now. Or y' all play it. I'm gonna leave or. And Gucci made me play it right there with my chest. You feel me? So it's like, boom. Doing that and. And doing that at a young age. Like, Gucci might have a whole session with Shawty Red, Fat boy, all these guys all day, and then the last hours, like, man, Mike will go turn some Beats on. You know what I'm saying? Just go in first. Yeah, yeah, just go in and freestyle on the beats and just go crazy. So shout out to Wap. But, yeah, I feel like it's all about consistency and wanting to be different and everybody that's on here, like. Like, even with. Even with Young Thug, like, like, Thug is just so. He just so unique. He got so many different styles. So it's like. Like, with him, he might be on this style right now. He might be on that style right now. He might be on that style right now. And I got. I got songs with Thug. I got so many songs with Thug that ain't came out, but I got every type.
