Chords for The Making Of Blueface's "Thotiana" With Scum Beatz | Deconstructed

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ Yeah, [Ebm] right. _
_ _ _ It [Gb] took, _ [Ebm] honestly, for Blueface [Bb] to do what he did with Deadlox One for me to actually
[Fm] start taking it [Ebm] serious.
_ _ _ [E] _
Because I was doing this shit [Gb] for so long, and ain't nothing happened.
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Ebm]
I didn't really know what Blueface's style [E] was at the time.
I just sent it and was hoping for [Db] another hit.
_ [Ebm] He made a hit.
Bust down.
_ _ _ Bust down, Tatiana.
[E] Bust down, Tatiana.
I want to [Ebm] see you bust down.
Pick it up.
Now break that [E] shit down.
Break it down.
Speed it up.
Slow that [Ebm] shit down on the gas.
Slow it down.
Bust it.
[E] Bust it.
Bust [Ebm] it.
Bust down.
_ _ _ _ So when I sent [E] you that Tatiana beat, what was the [Ebm] first thing you thought about?
Shit.
[E] Some booty shaking.
_ [Ebm] You feel me?
[E] Some busting down going on.
Shit, [Ebm] man.
I was just on some player [E] shit, you know?
Living on this fantasy.
_ _ [Ebm] _
_ _ _ [E] Blueface moved to [Ebm] Santa Clarita.
He moved to my apartment complex.
[E] _
And when he moved to my apartment complex, he was like, I'm going to be a DJ.
I went to my same high school.
[Eb] This one, he was [Ebm] little blueface, you feel me?
We [E] called that nigga Sticks.
Me [Ebm] and him, we had a football relationship before [E] anything else.
Why are you guys so [Ebm] successful offensively?
_ We just [E] came out.
We practiced real hard during [Eb] the week.
[Ebm] So I'll say a couple years after [E] I got out of high school, that's when me and him linked
[Ebm] musically.
He came to the [F] house one day and he just knocked on the door and was like, hey bro, send me beats.
So he said, that don't think like, nigga, I don't know you to be a rapper.
Like, nigga, when did you start rapping basically?
So he was like, man, just send me something.
So I'm like, _ fuck it.
I sent him some throwaways.
Like Dead Lokes was an old beat.
_ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ _ [Gb] _ When he [E] sent it back to me, [D] I had to get [F] used to it.
I'm going to be honest.
I wasn't the biggest [N] fan of it until I really started listening to him and how he actually
worked and put his little art together.
And the stuff he was saying was actually dope as hell.
He was pushing it.
He's going to high schools, performing on top of his Benz and all that shit, just fucking
his roof up and all that.
So I was like, okay, he's serious about it.
_ _ _ [B] So when I sent Blueface Dead Lokes, I want to say a couple months after that, that's
when he hit me asking for another pack.
_ And within that pack was the holy fucking grail, Tatiana.
When he sent it back, the first thing that came to mind was this nigga is off beat.
I'm _ thinking like, what mic does this nigga record on?
But then I started listening to this shit.
More and [Ebm] more, this shit started to grow on me.
[E] _ _ _ Tatiana was like the third beat I made on Logic.
Having no idea.
That's why y'all don't hear my tag in it, but it still worked out.
_ The first thing I did [Eb] on a Tatiana beat was [B]
the [Ebm] Rhodes.
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _
That gave me [E] no choice but to go the West Coast route, make it a [Ebm] West Coast beat.
This is where [E] I bought the keys in.
Now the keys [Ebm] is West Coast.
That's _ come on [Abm] since Dre.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Abm] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
On top of that, that's [E] when I had the [Abm] lead. _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ That's [Cm] actually a saxophone.
[Ebm] I took some of [D] the highs out, a little reverb just to make it a little wetter.
It's not the most West Coast sound, but it's [Gb] damn close to it.
But the three main sounds, it was [Eb]
basically to fill [F] in the empty [Abm] spaces.
_ _ [Bb] _
_ [E] That [F] little pause right there, that's where [D] the Rhodes come in [Ebm] at to fill it in.
_ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ Then the lead, it was just something that I wanted in the background.
You're paying attention to these keys that's loud as hell, then the Rhodes that's smooth.
Then you have this high pitched sound that just comes in, really fill it in.
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ They all compliment each other.
The drums is just cake from there.
Once I get the main sounds down, I come in with my 808.
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [A] After the bass, I did the kicks.
I basically followed the bass line. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Db] _ _ _ _ Simple the better, especially for him, knowing what type of artist he was.
The next sound that I used was the claps. _ _ _
_ _ _ But the main sound that brought it all together, _ believe it or not, was the simplest sound,
was the open hats. _ _ _ _
But then when I do it with the 808s, I think this is what really got [E] them going crazy.
[Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] This was the rim shot. _ _ _
_ _ This whole beat has eight sounds.
The rim shot was the last sound.
This is [Ebm] basically the song.
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[Ebm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ [Ebm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[Ebm] _ _ _ All [Ab] those artists jumping on the remix was dope as hell.
[Ebm] I like _ the blue [Eb] face and white G one because those is too [Bb] ratchet, [F]
motherfuckers.
And [Ebm] then once Cardi B got on it, [Dbm] I was like, oh [E] shit.
It's [Ebm] bigger than what the fuck I really think it is.
[Ab] We got Desiigner, we got Young Ma, we got Tyga dissing Soulja Boy.
Oh my god, damn.
[G] Who did the best [Ebm] remix, you think? _
_ _ _ [E] Uh, shit.
Well, the one with [Bb] Cardi and white G is probably the best overall, but [Ebm]
the Young Ma one was
pretty hard too. _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ It opened a lot of doors for me.
Blue face, he's only going to get bigger, I feel like.
And now me and him, we're under the same management and we're actually going to be a team team.
It wouldn't make sense to do it with nobody else.
_ [Eb] We shacking [Ebm] Kobe. _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [E] _ [Ebm] _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Ebm] _ _ Can I give y'all a sneak peek of the Thotiana part two?
[E] _ _ _ Come [Ebm] back for more. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _
_ _ [Ab] Alright, I ain't gonna _ do