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On the fourth track of "Days Before Rodeo", Travi$ shows us his romantic side, which, at the same time, does not divert from his original, druggy style. Through this chilled, laidback beat, he is experiencing the side effects of drugs he tried–presumably for the first time–while falling in love with a girl he has been around.
Days Before Rodeo has not been released to streaming services, and “Drugs You Should Try It” is no exception. Due to sample clearance, it is unclear if the track will ever see an official release.
He also mentioned that the track is based off of one of his favorite songs, which is Justin Bieber’s “All That Matters.”
"I liked listening to emo music back in the early ’00s, they had crazy melodies and there was a lot of arpeggiated guitar riffs. is two chord progressions: an arpeggiated guitar riff that follows C#m, A, G7, but I’m playing it note-by-note. Then I ended up layering another single note lead over it to make it move a bit more. For the bridge, I just played power chords—I strummed an A, C#m, F#m, E. I put some distortion on that and ran the whole thing through CLA Guitars plug-in stacked with your basic RVerb and H-Delay plugins.
For this particular one, I started doing drums and just wasn’t really feeling it, but I had a session with FKi later that week and they were writing a bunch of weird, left-of-center hooks at the time. So we went into a session and pulled up four or five different ideas and they wrote hooks to all of them. The ‘Drugs’ record was the standout. It wasn’t the exact same lyrics; what Travis changed it to is stronger than the initial idea, but the melody was still there. Then I told the guys to throw drums on it ’cause FKi has a very specific drum sound. They did and it sounded super fucking hard.
For the actual placement, I was with Lifted one day and we went to Big Sean’s house and were playing a bunch of tracks. Sean was like, ‘Yo, throw this one on a hard drive, I’m going to write to it.’ I’m thinking, ‘Okay cool, it’s going to be a Big Sean record.’ Then I got a phone call from Lifted one day and he’s like, ‘Yo, go check out Travis’ mixtape, your track is on there!’ And I’m like, ‘What the fuck?’ There was no warning, no production credit, we hadn’t done splits, I hadn’t gotten any bread from it. At the time I didn’t have an attorney and I didn’t really know how to get in touch with Travis, but I loved the record.
The crazy thing is, Travis never had any stems. He basically had the mp3 and EQ’d it so that the vocals were low-passed. And then he sang the exact same melody over that and put his lyrics on it. So Markous from FKi’s vocals are also on the track, you just don’t really hear them.
A-Trak was throwing his Fool’s Gold thing and I knew Travis and Vic Mensa were performing. Vic’s the homie so I went backstage with him, I broke off to go find Travis and when I walked up to him I think he thought I was a fan ’cause I was like, ‘What’s up man? The ‘Drugs’ record is my shit.’ And he was like, ‘Oh thanks.’ I’m like, ‘No, it’s literally my shit. I produced that.’ He looked really confused and then some of his people came up to talk to me ’cause they didn’t know what was going on.
It was a little weird at the beginning but we ended up working everything out. Now, I think Travis is about to throw a verse on this new Young Thug ‘Me or Us’ track which I also produced. We got some other shit in the works, too."
- via DJ Booth
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