T- Minus: IвЂ™m extremely excited and thankful. Have you all been paying attention to the response? The song has received a lot of positive reviews from fans. Anything could be created from any time period, and it can sound authentic to that era. ItвЂ™s kind of cool, because itвЂ™s the era that weвЂ™re in now. Cole use?вЂќ And then if they find it, and view all the credits theyвЂ™re probably thinking, me, Tommy, and Cole just created drums and chopped up the sample and made this beat, not knowing that Tommy is actually the original creator of the sample. People are probably all over the internet looking for that sample, like, вЂњOh, what did J. And in this case, itвЂ™s literally a track completely made by Tommy, that sounds like it was created in that time period-in that old era. T- Minus: I find the cool part about the whole record is that people know Cole for jumping on a lot of beats and samples. Is there anything else that stands out about this song to you? So he had a lot of direction, I built it out, and that was it. What people know me for, is IвЂ™m really involved in the creation and production of the track. Usually, IвЂ™m pretty great when it comes to the programming and then getting on the board and actually building up the track out of my sound collection. I kind of thought of it as me going off of the intuition for how the track would feel, and him giving his two cents on how he felt.

So he gave me a bunch of ideas and pointers for what he wanted to do. T- Minus: Well, Cole is very much a producer, so he likes to direct where the music is going as far as arrangement, or the bounce, or the feeling that he wants to have. And I forwarded it off to him, and he dealt with the rest of it. Cole had some creative ideas for how the track should go. I did all the programming and built the beat out. After we heard that loop, I started building the drums out and within maybe 20 minutes, IвЂ™d say, the beat was practically ready to go. It was like 10 tracks, and I was like, вЂњHoly shit dude, these samples are amazing.вЂќ I reached out to Cole and I told him, вЂњI got this new track from this guy named Tommy Parker.вЂќ And me and Cole jumped on a call and went through a bunch of samples, then we landed on that one for вЂњInterlude.вЂќ So I got a pack from management team and I went through it one day. TheyвЂ™re just ideas of music and stuff like that. T- Minus: I got a pack of tracks, which are essentially samples. WhatвЂ™s the story behind how the track came together? What were each of your contributions? So this record was another record that we created within that time period. WeвЂ™ve been cooking up, even during COVID. So IвЂ™ve been on board with Cole for quite some time. T- Minus: IвЂ™ve been working on this project since pretty much the beginning.

How did Cole reach out about doing вЂњInterlude?вЂќ And actually, today was the first time we really got to connect one-on-one. We just connected through his management. So you two didnвЂ™t know each other prior to this experience? That actually was my first time working with J. Tommy Parker: I recently started with a management groupВ В and they got me connected to T-Minus and thatвЂ™s how I got connected to the project. вЂњI just liked to time travel in the samples and give it to great producers like T-Minus to see what they can do to it.

вЂњWhen I did the sample, I was listening to a lot of James Brown, and a lot of Sam Cooke, and different artists,вЂќ he explains. In reality, though, Tommy, who has previously worked with artists like Justin Bieber and Janet Jackson, created the loop from scratch. вЂњInterludeвЂќ is centered around a soulful loop, which many fans assumed was a sample from an old James Brown record. T-Minus is a veteran producer who has worked with Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Nicki Minaj, and recently produced ColeвЂ™s 20 singles вЂњLion King on Ice,вЂќ and вЂњMiddle Child.вЂќ He adds, вЂњNot a lot of songs in the music industry come out like this, because a lot of times, when a producer and artist come together, the beat can actually take three to six months for it to get in the right hands. вЂњI think it was a couple of weeks ago,вЂќ T-Minus tells Complex, revealing the timeline for the creation of the song. вЂњSometimes you gotta say fuck it tho.вЂќ Ten hours later, Cole dropped вЂњInterlude,вЂќ a single from his highly-anticipated project The Off-Season.ДЄccording to co-producers T-Minus and Tommy Parker, the song came together just as quickly as ColeвЂ™s decision to release it as a single. вЂњTold myself I would drop the album all at once,вЂќ J.

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