In any other circumstances doing this kind of thing would earn you a snotty notice from a lawyer. Jahlil Beats isn’t the only producer to be unfazed by artists reworking his tracks. Mississippi rapper and producer Big K.R.I.T has both remade other artists’ music, and had the same thing done to his own work. “I pride myself on feeling like I can make a beat for anybody, and that my music can inspire people to make dope songs without me having to guide them.” While not every producer feels the same way – Los Angeles super producer DJ Mustard recently took to Twitter to express his anger at rappers jacking his beats – it’s still a widely-accepted practice. Now that a hot track can spawn so many versions, speed is crucial.
Hit songs often have a short shelf life, and a rapper who comes late to the party might struggle to get noticed. They have to pick up on the track, write their own version, then record, mix, master and release it, all in an extremely short time.īrooklyn rapper Joell Ortiz is one of the undisputed masters as far as timing is concerned. Ortiz’s version, Outta Control, was the first one out.īig Sean’s 2013 song Control featured an aggressive verse from Kendrick Lamar that inspired plenty of artists to drop responses on the same beat – particularly those who took exception to the Los Angeles-based Lamar claiming that he was the “king of New York”. “Control came out in the evening,” Ortiz recalls, “and I didn’t know. We got there at about 11 or 12, by two it was finished, and we put it out.” I woke up the next morning, and was like, what the heck is everybody talking about? I heard it at about 9am, and immediately called my engineer, and said, I need you in the studio ASAP. Getting hold of a workable version of a beat is usually a case of finding a segment without vocals, then chopping it up and looping it. That’s how Ortiz ended up rocking over a perfectly formed version of Control less than 24 hours after the original dropped.
said, ‘Let’s leave a little bit of space,’” Ortiz says. We couldn’t reach No ID for comment, but even if we could, we doubt he’d let on.
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