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He was denied parole in August 2020, but his credit for good behavior was restored last December. He was first incarcerated at Rikers Island, and was subject to solitary confinement at one point in 2017, he transferred to Clinton Correctional Facility in Upstate New York. In 2016, as part of a plea deal, Bobby was sentenced to seven years behind bars. “I was really behind them a thousand percent, so it was kind of tough to deal with.”Īlthough additional criminal charges were dropped against Bobby in 2015, he still faced sentencing for drug and gun possession. “I knew the impact these dudes going to have,” Jahlil says. I put all my eggs in the basket for them and Meek Mill, and the same thing happened.” Since the arrest happened in the early stages of working on Bobby’s album, it wasn’t even given a title yet. It was just us having fun, and then, that happened. He was at his house when his manager called with the news, which he “couldn’t believe.” “We were just making music.

“The last session I had was for Juelz ‘ Time Ticking,’ and then a day or two later, they got locked up,” Jahlil recalls. However, a major blindside truncated the project during its developmental stages.

Jahlil was optimistic about taking his working relationship with Bobby to the next level by producing his debut album under Epic Records. The producer confirms Epic bought both “Hot N****” and Rowdy Rebel’s song “Shmoney Dance,” which Bobby is featured on. Bobby had discovered the beat on YouTube and decided “ it was the one.” Jahlil says the track was initially intended for Meek Mill to use, but the rapper thought it sounded too much like his song “ Burn.”Ī few weeks later, Epic Records’ executive vice president Sha Money XL reached out to Jahlil to inform him the label wanted to buy the beat, and that they were working to sign Bobby. “People kept tagging me in clips of throwing his hat up in the air, I didn’t really pay it no mind, I didn’t hear the song,” Jahlil, now 33, tells Uproxx via Zoom of his initial response to Bobby’s monster hit “Hot N****.” “I think Kevin Durant tweeted me and he was like, ‘yo, you hear this joint? This joint crazy.’”įor “Hot N****,” then-19-year-old East Flatbush-bred Bobby (born Ackquille Pollard) rapped over the beat to Lloyd Banks’ “ Jackpot,” produced by Jahlil and originally released in 2012. However, no one could have predicted the unparalleled success coming to the then-26-year-old, generated by a young Brooklynite who borrowed one of Beats’ tracks for the score to a growing phenomenon.

#Jahlil beats holla at me series#

Cole, and released his Legends Era and Crack Music mixtape series featuring Lil Wayne, Big Sean, and many more. (He ended up signing with Roc Nation, and you may recognize his work from the tag “Jahlil Beats, holla at me.”)įrom then on, Jahlil provided production assists for Rihanna and J. The infectiousness of the song, which gently steels video game sounds with bass-filled hip-hop, resulted in a six-label bidding war for the producer that same year. The music maker (born Orlando Tucker) worked closely with fellow Penn State native Meek Mill on a number of tracks, including the standout 2011 single “ Ima Boss” featuring Rick Ross. That was the most unique thing about it for me.”īy the start of the 2010s, Jahlil Beats was steadily making a name for himself in the hip-hop world. We ended up going number one, and it didn’t even have a chorus on it. I was like, ‘We got one.’ I didn’t think I was going to catch like that - I was just making street music. I like to live a normal life, so a lot of things just don’t seem like they could reach that level. “ took legs of their own, and I was just grateful. “I reached out to and I was just like, ‘Yo, you got my blessings, man, rock out with it,” Jahlil smiles.

Artists from Lil Kim to French Montana freestyled over the beat, while Beyoncé hit the Shmoney during the On The Run concert tour with Jay-Z. Coupled with a stand-in-place groove now called the “ Shmoney Dance,” the track took the internet and the country (especially New York City) on a viral trip. The official remix - one of many - features Fabolous, Chris Brown, Jadakiss, and Bobby’s fellow GS9 crew member Rowdy Rebel. 1 on Billboard’s Hip-Hop/R&B charts, and peaked No. (He cites Swizz Beatz and Mannie Fresh as some of his major inspirations.) “Everybody catching bullet holes, n****s got me on my bully, yo.” The beat, produced by Pennsylvania beat maker Jahlil Beats, is a Chex Mix bag of sonic stylings, from Dirty South trap to the aggressive, then-burgeoning sound of New York drill music, which is a direct look into Jahlil’s regional production influences. “Run up on that n****, get to squeezing, hoe,” the piercing lyrics go. Throughout his 2014 breakout hit “Hot N****,” Brooklyn rapper Bobby Shmurda paints a picture of his experiences with street life, from guns to drugs and everything in between.