Chords for The Making Of GoldLink's "Crew" Feat. Brent Faiyaz & Shy Glizzy With Teddy Walton | Deconstructed

When I heard the sample that I sampled of my own, I was like, yo, easy.
I'm not like a beat maker.
It's more of like I see [G#m] more than just the beat.
That's what makes me make the [F#m] whole song.
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[E] _ _ _ [C#] _ [B] The first version of Crew, of course I was trying to put everybody in the mood.
_ Friday night, you with a couple shorties, you know what I'm saying?
You just turn it up, like really. _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [Bm] _ _
[D] _ _ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [Gm] I felt like that jump was too fast.
I'm going to come clean.
I really don't know how it got to Goldling.
I know my manager had the original beat that I made for Tyler Jones.
Like that was my first time actually listening to Goldling.
The whole purpose of me remaking this beat is like, yo, I want this to be way more chill
but still feel the same.
The first element that I added to this beat is like the beginning.
It kind of sounds like it's not even an instrument.
It's more of _ an ambient sound that it [F#] gives you.
_ _ _ _ [D#] _
_ And it say Crew on there, so it's like that's the beginning of the_
I just sampled the [B] beginning.
I kind of slowed it down.
If you work on FL, a lot of people know about just reversing [G] things and slowing things down.
It just makes it a whole different vibe.
Here's one example.
I can just_
I just pitched it down.
_ [D#] _ _ _ [F#] _
_ It's the regular pitch.
_ [G#m] _ _
It's easier to sing over.
[F] I sampled my homie Zakari, who's actually on Love Record, from Kenya.
I was trying to give it like a Travis Scott vibe, really.
I just did some auto-tune on his voice and like slowed the original beat [G#] down.
_ _ _ If you listen [C#m] to the tempo, you're [G#m] automatically_
_ [C#m] You know what I'm saying?
Even though it sounds like R&B, it sounds slow, [G#] you're still like_
[C#m]
You know what I'm saying?
You're still vibing out.
So my element to that, I would want to add the kicks [G#] to it.
_ _ [C#m] _ _ It gives it that_
_ _ I'm still keeping that tempo. _
_ [N] Now that I have that certain tempo, I like to keep it real simple.
Like I said, never overthink.
I never overthink when it comes to beats.
Just regular hi-hats that I_
That compliments the_ _ _ _
_ You know what I'm saying?
_ _ From the sample, it already had that bounce to it, so I add that. _ _ _ _
_ It sounds like an old clap.
It's not even really hitting.
That snare is weak on purpose.
I did that on purpose because usually I double my snares.
It's a secret that I just told everybody. _ _ _
_ _ _ Since I took an element from my old beat, I can't take out my bass.
So I was like, _ how can I make this still feel _ _ the bass, but still feel the bass from my
old sample that I took?
You know what I'm saying?
So I added [F#] _ _ [G#] _ _ _
[N] two simple bass lines.
It just brings it out just a little bit.
I'm going to play it with the sample so you can really understand what [F#m] I mean by that.
[G#] _ _ [C#m] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [F#] _ _
[G#] _ _ _ [C#m] I just turn things up to the max.
There's no rules when I make beats.
I just make sure that my snare hitting_
I put a bass on top of a bass.
This [G#m] already had a bass.
You know what I'm saying?
I was like, I don't [N] even care.
I'm really inspired by 3 6 Mafia.
It can be an R&B record.
It can be a pop record, a rock record.
I'm going to still throw some Trio Keys on it somehow.
I definitely took this in the beat.
_ [D#] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [Em] _ _
[Dm] It's really on some Owl City shit.
If anybody knows about Owl City, [D#] it's some Fireflies type shit.
I got a crazy girl moaning in this beat.
[N] _
I use something to set off a drop.
A lot of people used to use a crash.
I like to use different things like a stapler or a girl moaning just to separate that drop.
I'll just be walking and I'll just hear something as far as nature.
I'll just record it on my phone and I end up putting it in my beats.
It ended up being_ _ _ _ _ _
I really like to have people feel my beats.
Instead of just listening to it, I like to sneak things in there that's like,
Yo, is that like an ocean?
Is that rain?
_ _ Anything that's like nature, I like to just sneak that inside my beats.
[F#m] When I make a beat, it has to have a feel.
It has to [C#m] make you feel a certain way.
If it really don't touch your soul, [C#] I'm not even finishing the beat.
The most important element [C#m] is the mood that it puts you in.
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