Rae Sremmurd’s “Black Beatles” is one of the standout tracks off of their recent album, Sremmlife 2.
We met up with Mike WiLL Made-It at Tree Sounds Studios in Atlanta to break down the making of the song and find out how Gucci Mane ended up as a feature.
It all started to come together when Mike WiLL was playing with an arpeggiator in the studio and crafted a beat that sounded like a video game.
“I was like, ‘How can I make this shit weird?’” he says. “And I was just fucking with it. I just held that shit down, like… It’s an arp.”
Check it out above and read all the lyrics to “Black Beatles” on Genius now.
