Metal Lungies

It all started when Jason Goldstein hit me up.  Jason’s an amazing (grammy winning!) engineer, and we’ve worked on a couple of songs together (google him).  Jason had been engineering The Lonely Island album, and they had a song called “No Homo.”  I think for some reason they couldn’t get a hold of the producer that did the track, and they asked if I could decipher what the sample was and remake it.

I couldn’t figure it out at all.  I was asking other producers if they knew what it was, but no one could put their finger on it.  I wish I could recall everyone that I asked, it would surprise you, trust me.  A couple weeks later it hit me like a ton of bricks.  I thought about Beyonce and Jay’s “Upgrade You” and the Betty Wright sample.  I started chopping it up and made sure I was keeping the drums in line of Lonely Island’s original.  As I listened closely to what I was coming up with I realized it wasn’t the exact same sample, but it was SO close, even with the weird vocal stab.

I sent a rough beat in.  The funny part is that when you pitch Betty Wright way far down, she sounds like a dude!  I had an intro, the beat, and then I made another part with Betty sounding like she was singing “no homo.”  Jason sent me the Pro Tools session of their vocals and I put the song together.  I had to change my BPM by a couple decimals.  I threw the Betty “no homo” part after their rhymes and then flew my intro to be the ride out.  I even pasted in THEIR “no homo” to echo Betty.  I thought it was hilarious.  Sent it in.

I hadn’t heard anything for a while.  If you peep the album you’ll see they got someone to completely replay the song, I think it sounds great.  They hit me up and said they wanted to use my outro still.  I said no problem!

I hope that wasn’t too long winded, but it goes to show you, nothing’s easy in this game.  I gotta thank Jason Goldstein, and of course The Lonely Island.  I only wanted to let Metal Lungies know the story so I could get as many people behind The Lonely Island… no homo.