With the production being as simple as it was-the 808 claps, the 808 bass-it just worked. Maybe it was a subconscious thing because, at the time, that sound was definitely on the rise. Perfect.вЂ™ The simplicity of, it kinda felt like some Bay Area music. I took a couple sounds out and sent it back to him and he was like, вЂDope. Actually, he took the track and he asked me to take out some sounds вЂ™cause it was a little overproduced. It took me about 30 minutes and I sent it over to him. 'So I got on my computer quick and worked up this beat. ThatвЂ™s the thing with Drake: when heвЂ™s on a hot streak, he can just go. Drake pretty much recorded and did his entire section-the hook and verse-in about an hour, if IвЂ™m not mistaken. Long story short, Khaled went to Drake to get a record for his project. 'He held onto the track for a bit and nothing came from it. 'I sent the beat out to Drake and his response was, вЂYo, speed it up for me.вЂ™ I sped it up and sent it back, and his response again was, вЂSpeed it up a little more.вЂ™ So I sent it back and he was like, вЂThatвЂ™s perfect.вЂ™ I canвЂ™t even think of the name right now, but just the tempo of it and how it made me feel when I heard it. ItвЂ™s funny because that beat was inspired by another Drake record that I heard years ago.

I actually made it for, but I guess Drake had other plans. 'When I first made the track, it was pretty slow. A lot of dance producers use it, which is why itвЂ™s such a heavy sound. I used to use Nexus heavily in a lot of my production. The lead melody is actually a combination of two synth sounds. It took about 45 minutes, maybe an hour to build that track out and find the right sounds. Me and him just sat down on a keyboard, came up with that melody line together and I built it from there. 'Again, it all started from me being in the studio with. I was just fortunate to know the right people, to network in the right situations and have the skill and talent to produce what I did.' But it was amazing to be one of those producers in urban music that was making big moves. We had Boi-1da who was doing big things, 40 was doing big things. There werenвЂ™t many producers at the time who were killing it from where I was from in Canada. 'Man, it was unreal because at that time I was maybe 19, 20 years old. ItвЂ™s the beauty of the internet, I guess. I mean, I produced вЂMoment 4 Life,вЂ™ вЂ ChampionвЂ™ and вЂ High School.вЂ™ But IвЂ™ve never actually met her which is crazy.

'IвЂ™ve never actually met Nicki Minaj in my life. I'm not entirely sure, but I think he wrote his verse first and then gave it to her. Drake liked a couple of the beats one of them was the instrumental for вЂMoment 4 Life.вЂ™ And I think Drake was the one who gave the song to Nicki Minaj. 'At the time, Boi-1da was asking me to send some tracks to Drake for his album, so I sent a couple beats to 1da to give to Drake.

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