Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What insights does HitBoy share about his collaboration process with artists?
No worry about it.
So hey, question. What was the record when you felt like nobody can't fuck with me?
Chapter 3: What led to HitBoy's viral rant about Kanye's album rollout?
The newest shit I'm finna drop. Like the latest shit is my greatest shit. That's how I feel, you know what I'm saying? That's the zone I'm in, period, right now. I feel like... I mean, you know, I've had certain people hit me like, bro, you like the most versatile nigga to game to really ever seen.
Chapter 4: What is HitBoy's perspective on Quentin Miller's contributions to music?
It's just been a development thing. But I don't know, man. I just feel like where I'm at right now, my latest is my greatest, man.
You felt like artists went to you in the beginning more on the, let me go to him for my single or the parachute and what was the Drake single? The Trophy shit. Trophies, like they went to you on that way and now I feel like you only do albums with people.
It's tough to just get one-offs with you. I mean, I just did Don Toliver's single. I only did one on his album. He got a number one album right now. So it's like, I still do this shit, but certain artists, when they really come through and they see what I'm doing, they like, nah, I can't leave you. I gotta stay.
Like, look at, you know, Nas, first Grammy, you know, come around, just fucking around, bro. We just having fun with this shit, you know? I'm just trying to allow them to like, to still be them, whether it's Sean, whether it's Nas, whoever I'm working with. Just do you to the max. I'm going to do me. Nigga, we both know we good. Like, this shit going to go somewhere, period.
Chapter 5: How has Big Sean evolved as an artist according to HitBoy?
That's how I look at it.
What you prefer, though?
Do you like getting in to do one joint? I like to make music, bro. I can't even call it. If I could have did Don Tyler for a whole fucking album, you think I wouldn't have? Of course, yeah. You got a great album, by the way. Yeah, crazy. Yeah, his album's crazy. Melodies bar none. Yeah. I had 10 songs with the nigga. At one point, they was talking about using six of them. They only used one.
Chapter 6: What challenges has HitBoy faced in his career and how did he overcome them?
That's how the game going. That's what you just got to take in stride. Before, when I was the younger me, would have been probably... Felt some way about that.
Felt some way.
Like, oh, these niggas going to tell me to hold all these beats and then don't use them. It don't matter, though. Make what you can, nigga, and keep it pushing, bro.
But with that strategy of working with the younger artists like Don Toliver and then also working with Nas... Do you switch in the mode of, all right, I'm kind of Yoda to the younger guys, but Nas is Nas to you?
Is it a different approach in how to make those records and where to overstep and when not to say certain things or let people do shit or be like, yo, let me show you how to make this record?
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Chapter 7: What lessons did HitBoy learn from working with legends like Nas?
I mean, I feel like even new artists, they got... damn they're more confidence than the OGs because they don't give a fuck they think everything they do is stadium arena level shit which is beautiful for me because I'm working with you know what I'm saying niggas who got records that's popping now and I'm like damn these niggas come in the studio like yeah nigga this shit
out of here on first rip right and i'm working with the ogs and they'd be like hold on let's think this shit out a little bit so it's a nice balance to see both sides and i just got man so much knowledge bro like to apply to both sides from this shit because i can take the energy of you know a young nigga that'll come in and do three songs in an hour versus a nigga who like finna write out all the lyrics and make sure every line perfect like i could balance that shit out
Did you learn working with a legend like Nas, like what was something you learned creatively that you took from Nas and the way he creates and added it to the way you create?
Man, a whole lot, bro. A whole lot. But be super intentional about everything that you're saying. Make sure this shit is facts. Make sure this shit is solid information. And going back, listening to it. I mean, I was young when Nas was, you know what I'm saying? First coming out and shit. Fucking didn't even imagine me making music.
But going back hearing this shit, I'm like, damn, he always been...
this critical thinker he always been like he written this on the past and he able to put it in context and guide you through that shit it's just crazy man so I don't know I just I learned plenty from him bro so you actually went back and started like listening to a lot of his old shit once you started creating with him yeah for sure
Definitely, man.
Like when we was doing the first King's Disease, I remember just one day just listening to all the intros from all his albums and just like making sure that like the energy, what he was saying, what I was doing on a production was going to make sense. And I'm like, yeah, this shit lined up like this where he had in life. Now he not fucking 20 some years old. He is however old he is.
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Chapter 8: How does HitBoy view the current landscape of music production?
And I just got to let him do him. And I'm a compliment that shit.
I feel like with Nas, and I don't know Nas, but just from watching him my entire life, I feel like Nas probably don't really fuck with people like that. And I don't mean that in a bad way.
Nas, he's Nas.
He don't have to. Exactly. Of course not. But even when he didn't have to, I feel like Nas probably just still didn't fuck with people like that.
Like, he kind of kept to himself and did what he wanted to do. But when he fuck with you, he fuck with you. Like, bro, like, then came to my mom birthday parties and shit like that. Like, it's like niggas in the game. It's niggas that's, like, super in my age group that won't even do shit like that. And he like, nah, I really fuck with this nigga.
He see the energy and the seriousness, the time I'm putting into everything we doing. So he like, man, like, I'm really about to embrace this guy, which is beautiful, bro, to see.
But did that spark from personality, though? Like, because I also feel like even if you have the hottest beats, Nas still wouldn't sit and do an album with you. Like, was there some type of friend connection that y'all hit? Because, of course, the music is great on both sides.
He a Virgo. He a Virgo, for sure, right? Yeah, of course. I get along with Virgo niggas. Like, my nigga Chase and Cash started the surf club shit, came up in that shit. Man, like, I don't know. I just always got along. I get along with 2 Chainz, that nigga Virgo, too. Like... It's just something, I guess, creatively, I just connect with them type of people.
You know, we ain't really with the gossip shit, right? So when the Ye album came out, and I wanted to text you about this, but I was like, when I see Hit, I'll just talk to him. But you had some interesting things to say. And to be fair, I understood what you were saying. And in kicking it with you, I'm like, Hit is not... you're not the guy that's going to say something for clickbait shit.
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