I made it, felt like she may like it and sent it. So in that time frame, I had lost my job and was sitting home one night and decided that I wanted to make a happier beat than what I usually would make.

If you really want to work with someone, do it. I wanted to include that so other producers will see that it’s not all about the money. Keep in mind I wasn’t asking for money or anything. If I made something, I would ask myself how would she sound on it, and send it so she had a lot of my beats. Over the course of 4 or 5 months, I was sending her about 75 percent of the beats I completed. I had tons of beats that no one was using, so when she replied that she liked one specific beat and wanted to hear more I sent a lot. I followed her management at the time and saw that they were looking for beats for upcoming projects, so I sent an email.

When I heard her voice and style, I immediately wanted to work with her. I heard a few of her tracks back on the IBGM mixtape. How did the Dej Loaf situation come about? How did your life change after you saw how fast people were catching on to the track? Not only did people want to know who was that pint-sized girl singing the catchy hook, but they also wanted to know who was the person behind the production of the song. “Try Me,” by Dej Loaf was the biggest breakout hit of 2014. If it wasn’t for music I don’t know what I’d be doing. But once I went to school for graphic design I lost my love for it and fell deeper into music. I made a nice amount of money doing that through high school so I thought that I was going to be a graphic designer. During the MySpace days, I used to sell custom layouts that I used to design. I was always working on music in my spare time. Honestly, I made music for years before earning any money from it.

Dej loaf try me instrumental