

We got parts from Ty who worked on the Drumline movie, Nick and Africa Asaf Rodeh.

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Similarly, with the choir for “Home,” we had to figure out how to make it sound like a marching band. The equivalent to that is when an HBCU band is playing and the football team is running into the stadium with the highest confidence - that emotion is what we built into “Industry Baby.” There’s a certain way that HBCU band horn sections play that is specific for the way the music is arranged. Was that HBCU-inspired?īaptiste: We were figuring out how far we could push these songs in specific directions, like celebrating becoming a champion and really believing in yourself. You directed Lil Nas X’s 2021 VMAs performance, which sounded like a marching band. So when we used the loop of the beginning brass in “Industry Baby,” he immediately snapped into full inspiration mode and essentially freestyled the entire song. You had all this momentum and you stopped putting out music.” Nas, who played trumpet in school band, wanted a trumpet when we did “Rodeo” there’s a thing with brass that he really gravitates toward. Things were coming across the internet that turned his emotion 180 degrees. We were feeling uninspired, and Nas wasn’t feeling too good. We have tactics that allow us to turn any situation into a song - or attempt to - and we have an in-case-of-emergency folder if there’s a lull in our creative process.

Part of our job as producers is to set the stage for whatever can happen throughout the day. I had asked Nick if he could make something that sounds like a king is walking into a stadium or the Coliseum. Every single idea was started with him in the room or we gave someone directions and then we played the idea for him in the room.īaptiste: Nick Lee started the idea one year to the day the song came out. Biral: Every song on the album was meant for Nas.
