Mike Will Made It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp1NoS0fxqg

this billboard article says mike will worked with katy perry, anyone have any idea what he's talking about

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-juice/5908369/dj-mustard-how-the-producers-ratchet-revolution-became-the-sound

no idea. the grantland article on mustard has even more head-scratchers than that though.

yeah that article was weird as hell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGFio2Bs4A4

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Gucci and Juice freestyle over a nasty beat that is actually produced by a young cat name Mike Will if he has more heat like this shawty redd and zay better look out

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<3 Mike Wilmer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkiHbmreLaQ

Jeezy "4 Zones" may the greatest Mike Will (and P-Nasty who co-produced) track thus far, and def. the best this year

Mike Will beats that sound like they're beamed in from another planet > Mike Will slowin-it-up in da club

"4 Zones" is weird, like Jeezy was the only southern rapper who didn't warble in AutoTune when it was the thing to do 5 years ago and so he finally does it and it's exactly as awkward as you would expect

it was inevitable that Mike WiLL wouldn't be able to keep up the pace of 2013 but it's almost weird the degree to which he's disappeared this year. "No Flex Zone" his most notable track lately and the beat feels more secondary to the appeal of the song than w/ most of his productions.

idk I get where you're coming from esp. w/r/t to the hook but I really love the track, got a great otherworldly vibe & I like how Jeezy goes on the first verse, matches things nice

the ATLienization of Jeezy

wait he is ATL my bad. I suppose he's not nu-ATL though

"Way Too Gone" off the last Jeezy album was the first Mike WiLL track that made me go holy shit, no topping that imo

BTW speaking of another Jeezy track (that I'm not sure I've heard yet, it's a Best Buy bonus) does Polow go by Hot Sauce now lol? Thought I remembered something like that

and yeah "Way Too Gone" is amazing, my favorite Mike Will track the whole time he was popping even though it's not from when he was popping. I really don't mess with the songs he was running the radio with tho, idk what it is, too much of a "depressing strip club" vibe for me or something lol. This year got me thinking he may have a Neptunes/Pharrell-type career where IMO he becomes more creative even as his popularity declines

oh but I do like most stuff he did with Future and at least a couple of those were reasonably popular, I think

lol listening to "Addicted" Best Buy bonus with T.I. and YG right now going in expecting the obligatory "buzzaonthebeathoe" drop and instead it's this happy-go-lucky shit heh. Kinda dig it

Def. the best Childish Major track there, he kinda stinks up the main album

anyway sry not to derail thread topic

i don't think Polow is using a different name now. he co-produced "Anaconda" as Polow.

I thought he was Hollywood Hotsauce on the Diddy-Dirty Money album but I may be getting my producer aliases crossed up

wiki says Hollywood Hot Sauce is a completely different dude who co-produced a lot of Polow tracks circa 2009/2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Hot_Sauce

what was Polow's rapping alter ego? 'Gorgeous Jones'? lol

You know I was kinda wtf@"4 Zones" being left off the regular version but like you said maybe Jeezy relistened to the hook and was all naaah that ain't me lol

"Awesome Jones" btw

awesome possum ondabeat

starting to think "No Flex Zone" is a total classic. sucks for those dudes that they'll be remembered as a kiddy act even tho they're like 20

eh its part of their style though. also their new one is gonna be a hit too

swae lee's gonna have a solo career too i bet

http://instagram.com/p/tbvdierUDY

nooo why are they letting austin drag them down

starting to think "No Flex Zone" is a total classic

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this

theres sick production on this but not sure any of the songs are great, some good verses def tho

nothing is promised is a jam

all the Future ad libs just make me wonder if it would've sounded better as a Future song, it seems more suited to his voice than Rihanna's

Yeah he wrote it and it really just sounds like a future song w rihanna's vocals.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/11/how-mike-will-made-it

I did not know Swae Lee wrote "Formation"

pretty weird timing for a mike will super producer trend story...

The author seems a little out of touch. A lot of the piece reads like it could have been filed in 2013, just after Bangerz came out.

The angle to me feels like it could have been Will's commercial resiliency. Wasn't all that long ago ppl were suggesting Will had been rendered passe by DJ Mustard, but now it's pretty obvious which producer had the longer shelf life.

Also odd that the piece was written for readers who have absolutely no knowledge of rap music about a subject that only readers deeply interested in rap music would ever care about

but he hasn't really shown much commercial resiliency, "formation" aside... rae sremm album got pushed back after the single flopped. mustard prob has the bigger hit ("needed me") this year.

Still, Mike Will is just about the only ATL producer atm who seems to bring the best out of whoever it is he's working with.

what does that even mean

It means that whenever Future or Thug collaborate w MWMI they sound inspired, that all the new Rae Sremms have been great + MFN Right is a banger. The Rihanna song would have been better as a Future song but it's still good, and no, he isn't really charting atm but the spark's still there.

It means that whenever Future or Thug collaborate w MWMI they sound inspired

examples?

rae sremmurd have only ever worked w/ him so i don't see how they count

Rae Sremmurd count because they seem to be developing healthily whereas Future and Thug are sort of threading water atm. He brings out a poppier sound in them whenever they work together and I need more of that.

* them = future & thug

and the best new gucci is over a mw beat