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And Benny was like his intern.
I had another intern named DJA and Benny and DJA were like the two interns.
And I ended up hiring DJA to be like one of my interns.
And Benny moved to Philly, like started working with Spank Rocks.
That's like the scene I came from.
And then we both signed up Dr. Luke prescription really early.
I was like an offside, like I was like a kind of like more of like a administration deal, but Benny like went full into like the LAC and we've known each other for like, shit, 20, at least 20 years.
I didn't know that.
Me and him like know each other from like, from back in the day.
Like we would, we were like the same projects.
And then he just got way richer than me.
He made way bigger songs.
And I was always like the outsider thing.
So back to my story is that Benny was like true blue.
Like I understand pop format.
Like I understand when you hear some of his records, just like three sounds, like super simple, melodic.
I was always like, let me just go to Brazil and do some dumb shit.
And like, let me go over here and learn about this.
make weird music.
Whenever something got big, like Paper Planes, it was like completely random and by accident.