“2 Chainz was pulling up when that na was still Tity Boi.
Backseat Freestyle by Kendrick Lamar?
Feeling Myself by Nicki Minaj and Beyonce?
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That was produced by Hollis as well.
Woo and Pose by Rihanna?
“You have to show up with the right music.
“What I’ve contributed to the game deserves to be seen,” says the producer Hit-Boy.Ragan Henderson
You gotta show up with the right energy to be able get them songs off.
I know now that everything I need is already inside of me.
I dont know of any other producers that had six songs in the show.
Part of that, he admits, may have to do with how selective Hollis once was.
If it wasnt Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye…
I was telling my management dont even book the s—t, he explains.
Its a gift to be able to say that, but I should have been doing more.
There were so many people trying to work and I was just turning hella st down.
[But some] people dont even know what a producer is.
They dont know what we do.
Later, he adds, What Ive contributed to the game deserves to be seen.
It certainly got a boost following aVerzuz beat battlein March, between him and fellow mega-producer Boi-1da.
That’s a top Nipsey verse.
I felt proud to be able to showcase it.
Hollis was already friends with Nipsey when the two began working with more frequency at the start of 2019.
He started pulling up every day and coming to the studio, recalls Hollis.
He was FaceTiming me at like eight in the morning.
I love the energy.
I feel like he left the energy in here.
Hollis is continuing to channel that energy from Nipsey into his own work.
Despite the current pandemic, he isnt slowing down.
Ive been dedicating a lot of my energy to the Sean album, says Hollis.
We created probably 20 some records in the past year and a half.
He is someone that was always at the top of my list, he says.
The demos sound insane, we already got a couple in the cannon.
With even more work lined up later year, Hit-Boy is on fire and he knows it too.
I feel like a lot of eyes are being opened, its kinda just on me at this point.
Ive put all that energy into becoming the person I am now.
I feel better and better about opening people to my capabilities.
