Kenny Beats and T-Pain Cook Up an Instant R&B Classic | Red Bull Remix Lab

all right so this is the floor where I get all my [ __ ] done this is chronological in so it goes from 2003 all the way down to now a lot of BMI a lot of platinum stuff back there you don't worry about that Lou Bava gave me this so there's just black complex complex bags on stacks on stacks we is the big ice chamber you yeah I got that here that's all done that's all diamonds it's the stupid thing I'm ever $24 400,000 for no reason got somebody house these are all the those are the fat boys this is Roger so now we get to the nappy boy studios man oh this is where most of the magic happens [Laughter] what's happening guys this your Boise pain and welcome to Red Bull remix and lab I am here with my boy Kenny Bates happy to be here are you though I'm so happy early for me I like we're at the cream you know it's like we're at the crayon at the studio it's not clean yes absolutely I don't have matching shoes for this it's gonna be great this is gonna be great you're not you're not taller than me at all so um yes we're about to do some cool [ __ ] right now about to create a track together I feel like I'm just gonna remix you I know you play keys I know you do everything well like they've been putting you to no work every time I've watched this show it's like you just be chillin so I'm about how do you play a little key maybe just we do something more quick and easy that's [ __ ] I'm an easy job before this yeah I feel like we just do a little quick R&B rappy fun all right B rappy one-sixty high-energy R&B rap me everybody that's how we're doing that all right I mean if you got if you got sounds I'm ready to go so the first thing we need to do is have me do work yeah a lot of sounds that's what I do it is my name is Kenny be better you gotta you gotta have something you know I still I still dabble in the beats [Music] let's go chance [Laughter] [Music] I just took it up like a couple keys couple semitones I took all the MIDI all the piano you played and just what's the technical time for that it would be not a real harm but a transpose or okay so that is what it would be called in is it Rehan when you take one chord change I put like a different base note and it makes it a different chord change that's the thing begins super Berkeley yeah that's a lot it's so much all right so you got my vibes on there got your vibes you pick sounds and I'll keep Angie you want you all right here take this play that no what was that now stop that was crazy [Music] all right so we got a base on that really big slowly I was gonna so we're way to do it is like the 2008 this is a chill gliding and the agency is not angry to keep the you know exactly what you go on for you you go by adjectives I'm going back again because you really are going by add adjectives I'm going around here right okay so majestic wasn't how about hopeful hopeful that is be turns out all right [Laughter] yeah don't worry if sub sounds boring I'm a process every now but this is like this is like the right amount of lead that you want on [Music] he's it together now what's my best attempt it does oh man are you from gay I grew up in Connecticut and in New York and then I moved to LA I knew both say Connecticut it just takes all the soul right I'll start with Connecticut bro like hate that you called me only cuz I like I try to dance around it every time someone asks me so hard and someone's like you want to just go to set New York oh man you got the same whether I mean it later right now yes they do it's different whether bro it's war one train stop take 30 minutes to get from my mom's house to the city and my dad sounds like 10 minutes how fast is going on it's a training because I feel like all the friends I made when I was in Connecticut like normally did music or anything like that's all I had to go to New York to meet like the people are really I would say cuz you know when I say which I am but you know it's like oh [ __ ] not a lot of people came out of there but you know who did come out of there lead singer from Creed Wow Scott stop yeah yeah yeah and des prés is from Tallahassee to also legends also legends give me the singles works we just transported we're not even in November and see y'all [ __ ] [ __ ] there we go that lead you just did I'll basically cut it up and I put it in this RC 20 which is like this is just how to make everything a sample if you got a boring stock piano okay the first piano that comes up in your plug-in and it just doesn't sound like it has any feel to it you could put like the wobble Q stuff just adding like space to the sounds if you take the RC off that's what it sounded like I need a person for that because what sound do one side do what I just did on top of that this is about how those are my soul Valhalla is just a reverb company they make all my favorite because they're all is Viking heaven that's what that is right yeah thanks oh yeah right that's Viking heaven right yeah all right oh I've never heard someone call it Viking heavy but yeah that's what that's what they're all striving to go to haha right when you got double sided accent [ __ ] I think all right so at this point we got keys we got a bass line right we got a synth layer that'll come in a little later make it interesting salad and we have seagulls for no reason seagulls okay I'll do this in every beat it's not just seagulls it'll be kids that's what I want to talk about because you do this in every beat yeah now explain explain the signals for one first I do the seagulls for the same reason I put that little lead you did in that filter it's like I want things to just feel less stock even if it's just a piano and just a bass if you put play a playground I'm talking - a million decimals I so low in volume that you can't really hear it just gives all the simple stuff of feel and it kind of like when you play the beat in a room or someone's played a beat before that it's just a piano on a bass sound by the piano bass sound like it's a little bit of ambience I get that especially for artists I feel no I don't really write like that except for with people but I feel like as soon as that comes on yeah gives you a little something extra to go off for and more nostalgic okay you feel me especially with simple stuff like even if I do a beat that's big 808 and one sound if I just got that rustling underneath it all the simple stuff feels intentional I feel like you know because when people hear you do something really simple into the point with five sounds sometimes it's like oh this is really quick or this is just good a good idea to get the right around when like when you put something like that it's like oh this whole thing is in tension everything has a bomb on purpose he's trying to set this scene okay so wait wait take the fingers back because this didn't just come from you knowing you can do this I always ask people how did you know you could do this like what was what was the background of this whole thing like the trick with the oughta be honest I'm not even the trick without me I was just knowing that you can just do these kind of beads and and and make [ __ ] like this like what was the back what's your what's your whole background all right so I played guitar since I was a really little kid like seven eight you know like a dad yeah I think I mean all the present with 30 guitar than I can sequence a lot of [ __ ] yeah I think that's why I get most of my [ __ ] I'll make it sound like I can play it for sure like what you just said like I played guitar I play drums I did all this stuff and when I was fifteen I remember like because none of my friends really did music like that the only way to really get a reaction out of my friends was making a beat or like something that beats more similar to what's going on the radio because me were rapping yeah it was really to get a reaction out of my friends and so when I would play guitar for my friend John Mayer song for my friends that are you weird what is this about like if I play someone me ripping off at mo B they don't know I ripped off at mo b non-routine everyone made this I'm here I used to watch fade to black the Jay Z documents which supplies the jug I used to watch that scene like I was warm I got his neck jug polo-neck jug I would like remake beats off like YouTube and stuff in the media center at my high school played them in my car my friends my friends didn't know I was like remaking sure they just thought it'd be so crazy like me doing like the dirt off your shoulders melody yeah yeah but it gave me the confidence boost to start doing [ __ ] on my own and just making stuff okay and then I went to Berkeley for guitar but I was also a music business major and I as soon as I got there my first day I was like wow I'm not gonna be a guitar player everybody is okay I was in the hallway on my first day of college and I'm walking through the hallway and I got my guitar me to do my whole audition yeah it's kids sitting there like hey when you grab some at the store like playing like going crazy yeah so I was like I'm gonna start really focusing on production yeah so ever since high school I was recording people in my dad's closet in college I was recording people in my closet at my dorm room now I'm recording people in my little studio and cam I'm lucky I'm with so many people right now who are just growing but that's the thing you work with a lot of great [ __ ] people I do like that's what I'm saying like you work with people that look into the future and people that can actually see visions beyond how famous they are right now that's true for a lot of artists you were gonna I do a lot of stuff for reco nasty I do a lot of stuff event staples I do a lot of stuff with fat man key Freddie Gibbs got Gucci Mane's next to him coming out I got a bunch of shiv a buggy ski mask to slum guy real quick how funny man stable oh my god just over the top funny he ruined my life yeah he came and did that show I was talking about he called me the police on it like five times in his free style cars kept saying Kenny beets is the police over and over that make sense anything I do on social media is just oh yeah thanks officer appreciate like even about I'll post like the most like motivational for the youth like oh hey I hope everybody this morning like it's out put your friends on did it and they're like cool sergeant like no matter what it is and it's just like ah hey Vance bro I'm gonna do some drums I think we got a good base you think that's a good base let's hear what we got so far is it to jazz no I'll turn it up watch you're gonna turn this out the drums will turn up I felt jazzy for a second I felt like I was real fine I did this earlier and I was like oh [ __ ] I got hit and then I was like maybe something this you got oh [Music] don't do that run your makeup down Wow all right so what's the wait whoa wait stop it already give it a second give it a second what's happening here now what was that this is a bunch of Latin percussion I'm gonna chop a tiny piece of it out and use it as a base before I do high hats or snares or claps it's another little like textural thing but on the percussion a ba se yes before PA SS yes stop just let you stop me for that it's important [Music] I'm gonna do those I'm deadly with the fingers in the palm bro what what are you doing now it awaits ain't always basement on the baseline you gave me so there's a baby basically giving us a section basing it on the base I'm basing the base on which the base you gave me but base like say basically basically amazing the base on the base like whenever I make beats the easiest way for me to think about how everything's gonna feel is the base line so I'd usually do a baseline and then I'll do an 808 second so I can kind of like feel out what I want those notes to be without having like the kick how you pick the pattern this is my hardest that anything it's just the first instant okay so I'm just transferring think of it that's like you grew up a lot of people who did music a little bitter for fun in some capacity at all anybody doesn't matter but everybody I met that actually did music that was like I need some money you grew up around a lot of people who made music and this and that but you are t-pain like your general instinct your first off your head is way better than the average person so even I say this to rappers all the time for like man I want to stay here write this for eight hours I'm like what you write for eight hours gonna be 15% better than that first instinct I really feel that like I feel like that's true I don't write anymore you think it's such a high level the first thing you say is gonna has innocence to it I will say this and and I can I can contest for both sides of this because when I just come off the dough match it it feels better I love it more and it just it is feel a lot better do you have more written hits or more off the doughnuts go back to the hallway challenge you just blew my mind right and I'm saying by the count oh no no we're not skipping over that over what so you just like you just did uh-huh right now enable them yes sir you still in the NPC huh no I'm not supportive you could've done that right that fast I'll do it again I just do it on my knees documented that I did know people can see this that was crazy it was actually working at an old-time [ __ ] in factories need that goddamn deskilled oh my like that must be always very haphazard so I've learned to like work quick everybody everybody on the Death Star need that that come in you don't really know he's there and then you get [ __ ] force-choked and you don't know what to do because you weren't working what if you would have just if you would have just looked like he was working for a second you ain't good for show if you weren't saying [ __ ] like this it would have been done minutes ago I'm not even though my drums but but what happened so like I was saying before I had that little clap loop that's this I chopped it up it was like this big long thing I really just took two little pieces of it chopped it up with that we doing to clap a then that bass line apart whatever and then I added that snare to that will actually rhythm to it something then we got the Hat with those you did yeah I did only I didn't do too many roles too much extra stuff with the Hat but what what constitutes are wrong like what what makes you do all sometimes to me it's like a shaker like it's another little percussive element you can do with the same percussive element I need the Hat to keep the time whether it's half times these users Jagger I could be on the remix lab trying to a cake on top of all that stuff and then oppa hi-hat with the clap so you see how the claps fill in all that space that would just be a hi-hat and the snare be based on your bass line that you play in two seconds hey I did that pattern without hearing it the first time so together with everything we got two sections now I'm not quite yet but this that's this first sections and all feel like this you stuck on this tableau at all [Music] well we at right now and you just added a ton of drums I did I did okay yeah I forgot okay let me yeah wait I'm out of two things I'm gonna speed it up what else is gone but what else needs to be transitions is what I'm thinking a little yes effects thing on the wine with NATO it comes in a little sweep into the woods yeah come on then tell me what transitions are now turnaround is what I call maybe Turner this makes it just makes the one of the next section to hit harder to me soon as that 808 come in this little swell is gonna make everybody focus does it though watch I'm gonna take that clap what is that well Jesus right there this is a reverse cymbal just like that so that's like a 808 cymbal just backwards sound like this now now if I were to use that I would have put a other way how do you mean all like on the one right on the one how to put the actual symbols on the one that's - is there not a thing anymore - easy I heard we weren't using symbols anymore I've heard that I'm not big on imma try this this is a little effects sound I use Oh see oh kero kero key maybe maybe that's what were you doing that's it right there that's gonna be the one so yeah now to swell into that okay [Music] [Music] [Music] yeah Oh Sam quick on it but also like the number one thing for me I noticed of people's beats is the lack of like drum drops and like little extra moments cuz people always have like a section with no drums a section of a drum some of those drum no ha hats for a section no kicks it's even more important to have moments like this like to me it's just a little moment to me it makes the impact more impactful exactly especially with that [Music] [Music] [Music] why do we speed it up I think should though this whole ten a whole ten may be too crazy [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] that's basically a sample of a talk box I know it's in G I get it I did the right thing you did the right thing let me hear the Luxan understand right now it active down an intro and an octave up halfway through this put a pan man on it you know my pan man what is that no to echo boy giant it's C cleanup I mean the sound toys sound toys yeah so this is just a really good pan or just move things from left to right and like I feel like a lot of people I'll see a unbelievable beat I really like and you'll see so much stuff just in the center all the drums will top them so all the keys atop themselves like if it's something like this little lead we just did I feel like it imagine that losing origin moving around the speaker like it'd just be me [Music] [Laughter] so I put the whole intro in that same that that like vinyl RC 20 filter so now when it come out the intro does like opens up because the camera is like going like over me just see him I got a super good idea how about you just sing really good on this oh okay I'll try my best to not do that that would be super tight if you could just sing good probably not okay I'm ready when you are I know okay different key a major gonna take shirt off is there anything you need right now Oh [ __ ] what I see right now oh here that birthday suit that's what I need right now [Music] [Music] that's one track let me let me let me back that up is that a background remain both of these ago the remains I would like both of these it evening oh what'd you do copy to do a control see it's a copy and paste yeah guys you know normally when I'm working on my music I do a lot of pace thing you know copying musical terms don't worry about them you guys you know see it as well because [Music] that boy [Music] oh yeah don't take shirt off is the anything me right now I'm like you wanna see right now oh yeah that's what I need right now [Music] yeah the intro is cool so let's go from there and do that feelings work to your mother's sorry [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh put it put it put it on Kenny I want you to feel bigger you see what yeah oh my god a lot but you know this is the top let's do these harmonies nothing [Music] [Music] you have three harmonies this is number four what no this is no this is just the four of the main North Main yeah so I got after the after this fourth one you got six more yeah yeah RZA are you ready for the hey the haze about to happen right now raise e fire really crazy feeling there you go if you will are you doing a double of those yeah [Music] ah are you done orgasmic Oh Oh can I hit you with this not very assault somebody got a bonus can we hear one more time let's hear what we got left let's just all your acapella Gina it's from that no nothing here from that from the job [Music] [Music] [Applause] wait don't take shirt off [Music] [Music] yoga's good at browns your homeboy t-pain and I'm Kenny beets and then what I gotta do subscribe to rebel remix lab on youtube to see me with this big-ass chain

Channel: Red Bull Remix Lab

Views: 2,082,496

Rating: 4.9612522 out of 5

Keywords: Red Bull, Red Bull Remix Lab, Remix Lab, Remix, T-Pain, Need Right Now, hip-hop beats, music production, Kenny Beats type beat, Kenny Beats production, T-Pain without Autotune, T-Pain Remix Lab, Kenny Beats beatmaking, beatmakers, Kenny Beats, kenny beats rico nasty, kenny beats boiler room, kenny beats the cave, how to make a beat, how to produce beats, how to make music, how to use appelton, vince staples

Id: d5Q7nroH3FE

Length: 38min 42sec (2322 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 30 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/lemonsause]

T-pain seems like a fun guy to hangout with

[u/badwithusernamesbabe]

Like this but a whole album.

[u/Hankirus]

Watching T Pain effortlessly pull all these counter melodies out of his ass is mind boggling.

[u/supercooper3000]

"That's fucked up, I had an easy job before this"

T-pain is so damn wholesome, this was great. Also, that's a big ass chain.

[u/Resistance225]

Kennyyyyyyy

[u/blue-dream]

one thing that stood out to me was how impressed T-Pain was with Kenny's mastery of Abelton. It's pretty clear that T-Pain has a wholly different workflow when it comes to producing and may have even felt a little outmatched.

love them both tho

[u/allboutryan]

WOAH KENNY

[u/sonQUAALUDE]

damn that was so fun and good! like kennys beats cave videos are great but they skip over most of the beatmaking and just focus on antics, but this was great because tpain was like “whaat whaat stop slow down what did you do there” lmao. it was good to see. and tpain is sick with the chords and melodies. vibes for days just on the spot like that.

[u/SheenEstevezzz]

T-Pains mfn electric