Bells, strings, horns: Jahlil has the knack for evoking visceral, sublime sensations. If there was an award for Most Epic Beat of the Year, Jahlil Beats would have won three of the last five years: 2011’s “I’mma Boss” 2014’s “Hot Nigga”, and 2015’s “Oh My” by Boogie.
I understand, we live in a different age, so it’s cool to bash him, but when it’s cool to go against Drake and like Meek Mill again, then it is what it is. In this case, Meek is getting way bigger, the people that would have never listened to Meek Mill is checking him out right now. “That situation actually made both of them bigger. “I’m not even trying to compare to Kanye West, but I look at it like Kanye West and Taylor Swift.,” he explains. While some have speculated that Meek’s beef with Drake has irretrievably ruined his career, Jahlil believes that Meek will have no trouble repairing his damaged reputation. I think he was supposed to strike ASAP with that record, and he let the momentum build up to much.” “I think with that record, it was just timing,” Jahlil laments. But as Jahlil explains, that song was meant to be a “warning shot” - an answer to Drake’s “Charged Up”, with a “Back 2 Back” caliber diss track waiting in the wings. Jahlil provided the beat for “Wanna Know”, Meek’s widely panned Drake diss track.
Jahlil took him to to the studio during one of Meek’s sessions - the first beat he played for Meek was “House Party”. With a pregnant girlfriend and a dearth of cash flow, Beat Bully asked Jahlil to help him get connected with artists. Sidebar: Jahlil’s little brother, The Beat Bully, produced “House Party,” Meek’s first big hit after he signed his deal with MMG in 2011. Meek was on house arrest when he got out, so Jahlil would drive to his aunt’s house to drop off as many as twenty beats at at time. “He would call me all the time, just like, ‘Yo, when I get out, it’s on, we’re gonna get in the studio, we’re gonna do this,’” Jahlil says. Shortly after that mixtape dropped, Meek got convicted on drugs and weapons charges and ended up serving an eight-month bid. Jahlil sent Meek three beats that ended up on Flamers 2: Hottest in the City, including the title track, which sampled Swizz Beatz drums from Cassidy’s “Imma Hustla”. This was during the golden era of MySpace. If you was outside on the block, every car that was driving past was banging Flamers 1.
“Meek had just put out a mixtape called Flamers 1 ,” Jahlil says. Jahlil first connected with Meek Mill on MySpace around 2007. “Make Em Say”, “Rosé Red”, “Imma Boss” - the list goes on and on, and on. Jahlil Beats is best known for his uptempo collaborations with Meek Mill - club bangers positioned at the intersection of trap and bounce. And that pretty much taught me to how structure my drums and place the right drums with the right melodies. “That’s how we started off, just sampling. “Everyone at one point wanted to be Just Blaze and Kanye West,” Jahlil recalls. He downloaded drum kits from producers he idolized, like Swizz Beatz, Mannie Fresh, Timbaland, Just Blaze, & Kanye West. Jahlil spent his high school years “trapping mixtapes” and bringing over the hottest rappers in Chester to record in the mini-studio his father had set up for him in his room.
“I had cut my first little demo when I was like three,” Jahlil says. He set up a home studio and recorded music with his sons for fun. His father went to school for audio engineering and got certified in 1981, seven years before Jahlil (gov’t name: Orlando Tucker) was born. Jahlil Beats grew up in Chester, PA, a town of 29,000 ten minutes south of Philadelphia.
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