Dang this track brings back so many memories, but anyway this was made for Ashley Tisdale when she was just about to sign with Warner. She was on Disney at the time, so I came up with this “Disneyish” beat. I honestly like this track alot. Ashley hated it. Oh well, her stupid album flopped anyway.

This song went through countless of demo singers before I gave it to O’so Krispie and she did an excellent job on it. We demoed up the song but decided not to release it. It’s a really good track though. I’ll post the one with the vocal later. Created on Fruity Loops. “The Slave Project” tracks were the last songs I created on Fruity Loops I think before switching over to Logic Pro. Haven’t used FL since

I was in Philadelphia at the time when she recorded in Atlanta. After 6 hours of recording she gives me a call and says

“OMG I just finished recording. The song sounds awesome! But…”
“But…”
“I sang it in a different key… Like it doesn’t match.”
“WHY THE F*** DID YOU SING IT IN THE WRONG KEY???”
“I dunno…Should I re-record it?”
“YA THINK???!!!”

hahahaha good times!

One day I decided to message Jeffree Star saying “lets do a track, take a listen to this…” This chick gets flooded with comments and emails but to my surprise, she replied saying “This is hot sh*t let’s record.” We throw emails back and forth between her, her manager, and I planning stuff… But then they both disappear LOL Dude seriously 2005 was definitely not my good year!

“Like That” was originally made for Ciara back in ‘04, it sounded more Lil Jonnish though. (Read about it here). But that fell through as well. However, “Like That” ended up being my biggest “Rejected beat” money maker in 2006-08 getting crap load of TV placements from independent movies to MTV.

PS: Jefree Star is a cunt

Another failing attempt with Def Jam in 2005. There was a new artist they just signed. I don’t remember the name but they were looking for southern type of beat. Recorded the song. Def Jam ended up dropping him. Project gone into pooper. Fun fun.

“Lost In Translation” was produced in summer 2005 sometime. Used my usual Fruity Loops & 3OSC. Also, I think this is the first track that I used Absynth on. The percussion that you hear in the background that sounds like a bongo drum is actually a synth. lol

Song didn’t go anywhere. Shopped it to Def Jam only I think, got rejected…boo hoo.

Man, 2005 was just a horrible year for me with luck…
This screamed “Missy Elliot & Ludacris” to me so I pitched it to her label. The A&R at the time really liked it and was just about to finalize the deal, but he then got fired. The new A&R wasn’t too crazy about the song so it fell through. I’m not really into remaking old songs but the original is amazing. This beat samples Musical Youth - Pass The Dutchie.

The mother of all failures. This song literally went through 20 different artists from G Unit to Def Jam to Koch to Interscope and finally ended up in the trash can a year later. This was a never ending battle. Created on Fruity Loops, used Edirol Orchestral Synthesizer (one of the best string synth ever)

So I get a call from my manager at the time saying “I need some hot ‘Lil Jon’ish beats for this new girl Ciara.” I was like “Who the F. is Ciara? Give my beats out to someone famous” (LOL) This was just before Ciara became CIARA. I sent him “Like That” and he called me back a week later saying “Ciara LOVED it and we will record it ASAP”. Then he disappears 3 days later and I literally never heard from him ever…wonderful.

I started making beats in May 2001 focusing on techno/house stuff. The first vocal song that I officially recorded in a studio was “Let Go” with Romina. At the time I was pursuing to be a pharmacist and I basically had to make a serious decision, do I focus on school or attempt to be a producer. I was leaning towards school because, come on, what are my chances of becoming a successful producer…slim to none.

This all changed one night in December 2001 when Louie Devito came to Philadelphia to spin at club Egypt (Remember Egypt???? So many good memories lol til it literally burned down to hell). He was like hot sh*t back then with his New York Underground CDs which actually sold… A lot.

I emailed Louie a day before the event and said dude PLEASE play my track and sent him the mp3. He actually replied “Cool, bring me the CD and I’ll play it” and he did like he said. That moment basically changed my life forever. Hearing your track played in a huge club which is PACKED and the biggest selling DJ is playing it too? Damnnn, screw pharm school! haha.

Even though it was a crappy track (I’d hate to talk bad on “my baby”), I mean it’s completely over compressed, un mastered, not in tune and so on..This track really bring tears to my eyes every time I hear it

Messed up thing is if you slow it down to 115 bpm it turns into “Gimme More” by Britney. Identical notes except

Let Go: F#, A, G# C#
Gimme More: F#, A, G#, D