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No other producer inspired me MORE to produce music than Mannie Fresh.  Album after album of beats that were one of a kind, diverse in sound and utterly 2 times more creative than anyone else drove me into wanting to have the same effect on someone else.  After hearing 400 Degreez, Chopper City in the Ghetto and Guerrilla Warfare, I knew what I wanted to do with my life.  Juvenile’s Back That Ass Up changed my life.  I mean, that shit got me a lot of fucking dances in junior high and high school.   I went to an all dude school and on Friday’s after football games we’d have these “mixers” where girls from all over would come and just wyle out.  That song came on and the white girls went WILD!  LMFAO, its a true classic.  That song is one of my favorites and HONESTLY is one of the reasons why I live in New Orleans today.  So when I read about Drake remaking Back That Ass Up and Juvenile LIKING it, I had to see what this song was all about.  I did my research on it before I even listened to it.  I took note that “40” produced it.  I have a special admiration for 40.  In addition to having a very original sound, and in my opinion being one of the best producer’s currently working today, 40 is a very bright individual and incredibly  humble.  I take note of how people conduct themselves in my line of work.  I figure if I can identify what makes them successful I can implement pieces of that to make myself better.  There are people that I would love to just sit and learn something from.  40 is one of them.   So, I was pretty stoked to hear this song.  Practice blew me away to be blunt.  NO ONE has thought to DOWN PITCH the sample and make it an R&B song.  No one.  The concept of the song is also genius.  All the men you’ve been with were just Practice for me.  I wonder how Allen Iverson would feel about that Aubrey.  LMFAO.  The more I listened to it, the more I could hear instruments that I would have added.  The more progressions I would hear, the more I felt like I could bring out the idea that Drake and 40 were looking for while still being myself.  So, I added to it.  It was a very tedious process, but I did it.  This is NOT a remix, remake, or a cover of Practice.  This is me co-producing Practice.  If I were in the studio with Drake and 40, this is what I would add.  If 40 had emailed me like, “Bro, this is what I have, I can’t figure out what this record needs.  What do you think?”  THIS is what I would have added.  Music comes full circle.  From me and my homie Antwaunne putting our lunch money together to buy 400 Degreez in 1999, to getting twerked up by suburban Cincinnati white girls in 9th grade, to random acts of drunkeness on Burbon St. to your headphones.  Nothing is more powerful than music and the feeling it gives you when you hear it the first time.  I’ve rambled long enough.  I present to you Practice, co-Produced by: ME.  #CincinnatiMusic2 1.4.2012

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