Chords for The Making Of Lil Uzi Vert's "XO TOUR Llif3” With TM88 | Deconstructed

Me and Uzi [F] had a convo.
We was on [E]
FaceTime for like an hour, 40 minutes just talking about the [D#] industry and just regular
[F] shit and then he was [F#] just like, bro, [F] we gotta make the [Em] most epic shit in [F#] the world.
We gotta find [F] this vibe.
We gotta find the zone.
[G] So I didn't [F] have none of my equipment.
I just [F#] had the [E] beat pill.
Of course I made it on.
[Fm] People [E] really don't believe [Fm] that I did it.
I sat [G] down, I was like, man, I'm gonna cook a 20 pack for [F#] Uzi and just send him all [B] 20 beats.
And it's kind of weird because everybody's saying Uzi, Lucifer and all this shit now.
Like he_
_ _ _ [A#] _ But [Em] the beat was [Bm] number six.
_ [A] That's what's so crazy.
Number [G] six.
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
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XO really _ came from an older beat that I [F] had.
A three year old beat.
_ I made it with my producer, JW [E] Lucas. _ _
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[G#m] _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _
_ [E] _ And that's what JW sent me.
That part right there.
[G#m] So that's the main [A#] melody of the [A#m] track.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [G#m] _ _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ It's cool, [D#] but it's not XO.
[G#m] You know what I'm saying?
_ _ [F#] _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [G#m] _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [F] That was the original.
The beat ended up not traveling nowhere.
You know what I'm saying?
It was one of them ones, but I didn't send it out and I'm pretty sure he was sending
it out, but it didn't [E] reach.
But _ _ _ _ [G#] man, I was sitting there and I was like, man, [F#] let me [F] sample myself, man.
[F#] I heard the beat and I was like, [F] damn, it's slow as [F#] shit.
It feel R&B [G]-ish.
I'm like, man, fuck.
Because the slower beats don't go to the clubs.
You know what I'm saying?
_ _ And I know Uzi want to go to [Fm] the [G] clubs.
I was like, let me [F] make a pack of uptempo, like _ _ _ 148 to 155.
I wanted to change the note, the pitch.
Just the whole _ feeling of the sample.
It's this thing on FL called Gross Beat, which [E] all the fans know we use.
_ I _ took it and I halftimed it.
_ Halftime means slow it down, but [G] it's slowed down, but it's the same tempo as the_
It's dividing it, really, which music is all math.
_ _ _ _ _ _ As you can see, the Gross Beat [A] is working _ [G]
and I don't know how to explain how exactly
[B] _
it's working, [C#] but it slows it down and it [G]
halftimes it.
That was the first part that you heard.
And then this is the second.
_ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ With the [Bm] click, and everybody [A] want to know what the click is.
They [Bm] think it's a Minecraft door.
[Em] And _ in reality, [Bm] bro, I think [A] it was some [G] sound effect out of [Em] _
some drum [G] kit.
_ Maybe they sampled a mine.
I don't know.
_ _ [F] I came [G] to the drums.
_ I'm trying to cut the beat pill.
Started with the 8-point. _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [E] _ _
[F#] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ [E] Came in with the snares and the [F#] clap and the hi-hat.
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ [E] _ _ That's where you get [F#] your rhythm from.
[G] That's what a lot of producers don't [F#] understand.
_ [B] _ _ They keep their [F#] percussion [G] be under the drums and under [F#] the sounds when the percussion [Em] need
to be on top of everything.
_ _ _ [G] _ Just go back [B] in history _ from _ _ [F#] Arabians to [G] _ Africans. _
When they did [F#] their music, [E] all you heard was percussions. _
[F#] _ That's [G] what moved the music.
Once you [F#] _ [B] figure that out, [F#] then I added it.
_ [G] I came in with the kick.
_ [F#] _ _ [E] _ _ I never [F#] showed my 808 practice.
[G] _ Hell hell.
Really, [F#] though.
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[F#] Really ain't that much [G] to it. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [G] I didn't use no compression.
You know a lot of [Bm] producers, they think they got [C#] to mix their beats.
I just level [G] them. _
The better [Em] levels you got, the [Bm] better your sound.
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [G] _
I didn't have headphones.
[Em] _ I [Bm] didn't have _ _ [A] my interface.
I [G] couldn't use my speakers.
I had my [Em] speakers, but I couldn't use them because I [Bm] didn't have the hookups.
_ [E] _ I [G] remember getting this beat from _ [E] the [Bm] airport or some shit.
Being [F#m] bored.
I was like, man, [G] let me try to use this shit.
_ [Em] _ I hook it [Bm] up.
_ _ [E] At first, I wasn't getting the sound [G] that I wanted.
But then I had to remember, [D#m] bro, you level [E]
everything as [F#] if you had regular [G] speakers.
_ You just got [B] to get your turn the [Em] beat pill all [G] the way up, but not have all your levels loud on [F#] here.
_ _ [E] _
_ [F#m] The vibe I get from [G] XO12 with the vocals and the beat, [B] I feel like it's going to be a [Bm] song that's going to [C#] be played for [F#] the next 15, 20 [F] years.
[F#] That's how I feel.
[Bm] It gives me the [A] feeling of just the [G] partying feel.
It makes you feel [Em] like a rock star.
_ _ [Bm]
Everybody else say [E] it makes them feel like their friends are [Bm] dead, but I know the concept.
[E] At first, I was like, [Bm] bro, this nigga crazy.
_ [F#m] _ _ _ [G]
I was like, whatever, [Em] bro.
It's hard.
_ [Bm]
They was like, nah, [F#m] bro, I think he's talking about dead presidents.
[G]
You know what I'm saying?
_ [E] _ XO was really [Bm] like, I just figured it was a [A] regular beat.
You [G] know what I'm saying? It's _ [Em] regular.
_ _ [F] _
Uzi [Bm] made it [A] epic.
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_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [G] _ _
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