“Jackpot” is built around chest-thumping bravado (“A threesome ain’t shit / I need a couple of those”) and Banks’ usual avalanche of punchlines. Having previously produced for Queens superstar 50 Cent and his street soldier Tony Yayo, Jahlil instead passed the beat over to another G-Unit member, Lloyd Banks, who released it as “ Jackpot” directly onto his Twitter in February 2012. Not special enough for Meek though, who wasn’t interested (“He thought it sounded too much like ‘Burn’”). I brought all of these different effects together in Fruity Loops and made the “Hot N*gga” beat in like 15 minutes, tops. “You have the hiss of a vinyl needle, that lower brass which really snaps, the kick drum.
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Jahlil, who cut his first demo at just 2-years-old thanks to his dad being a studio engineer, says studying computer science at college helped him understand how to effortlessly combine different sound effects in the studio. The sound of the crow was because I loved those gothic horror movies, but it was also to symbolize that death is always stalking Black people in America. “Although I had one foot in the door, I still had the other foot a lot closer to the street because that’s where all my friends were still at,” Jahlil said.“ the music captured that raw energy. It’s what the repeat button was designed for. Yet thanks to Jahlil’s thumping beat and a then 19-year-old Bobby’s infectious rookie energy, “Hot N*gga” is that rare rap song that makes you feel like a $1 million every time you listen to it. The idea that a hook-less rap song about being surrounded by nine-millimetre handguns, flipping g-packs, and being fellated until you’ve passed out, could fire up both rugrats and pensioners seems farcical. It’s a song that brings people together, you know? It just uplifts the people.”
“I’ve been to two or three weddings where they’ve played it, too, and grandmas were losing their shit on the dance floor. “They were going crazy,” says the producer behind the 2014 hit song. Yet producer Jahlil Beats (real name Orlando Tucker) tells me Bobby Shmurda’s immortal hood anthem “Hot N*gga” got the kids at his niece’s fifth birthday party so hyped that the DJ was forced to run the song back three times. You might expect a song by Barney the dinosaur to get the most love at a small child’s birthday party - not a gutter rap cut.
In the latest installment of Behind The Beat, Thomas Hobbs spoke with Jahlil Beats about how he and Bobby Shmurda made the immortal hood anthem “Hot N*gga.”
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