How did you come up with your signature tag? When my partner Meek Mill came out it kind of changed the game in the Tri-State area. Around that time in Philly, they had a NY-type sound when Jay-Z was running the game with State Property, Beanie Sigel, and all of them. I had moved to Atlanta when I was 19 and I went to college in Buckhead I kind of grasped their sound - the down south 808вЂ™s - and I brought it back home. After awhile I started making original music, and as I got older I started to get into the clubs and started to see the atmosphere of how the music makes the people move so I started to make a lot of club music and thatвЂ™s where I got most of my buzz from, making music for the club and the radio. I get a lot of influence from Swizz Beatz to Mannie Fresh and The Neptunes. I started to shy away from the sampling and do strictly original beats. That helped me develop my style that I have now. I was strictly doing sample music -70вЂ™s R&B, old rock вЂnвЂ™ roll, etc.

When I first started, I was sampling-based. How did you go about crafting your sound? Was there anybody you patterned yourself after? Then we started making little mixtapes and giving them out when I was in high school, and thatвЂ™s when I really started taking this seriously. My pop had given me this program, FL Studio, which is on the PC, and I started making beats on there and then I just got hooked. I really didnвЂ™t get into it until I was 12-years old. He had a home studio in the crib and he used to have us cut demos, rap and sing I cut my first demo when I was like 4 years old. He was into music heavy at a young age as well. He used to have a band back in the day so he had a musical background. Jahlil: My pop - heвЂ™s a producer and a certified engineer.

VIBE: Give us some background on what sparked your interest in producing.

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