But I think he opened up a door for a lot of other people to become themselves. It’s unfortunate in Peep’s case, he had to pass away for people to actually start paying attention. We had our eyes on Peep and X for the longest time, trying to get them to be a part of what we’re doing, but they had their own routes. He got locked up pretty quickly after we took him on tour. He was a human and had demons he was battling, like everybody. honestly was a good-hearted, genuine dude. R: We brought on his first tour, the Southside Suicide Tour. They were some clique called Schema Posse and I told one of the guys that left Schema Posse, “If Lil Peep or Ghostemane ever want to do anything, they will not do it under this guy, because he’s not going to take them to the next level.” Literally the next day those guys left what they were doing with this guy and Schema Posse, and started working on their own. Then Fat Nick and Mikey the Magician really put Peep on. I was like, “Who is this kid?” I felt bad because this kid got screwed and I didn’t want it to be from us.įrom there, I kept my eye on him. That’s the first time I ever heard about Peep, and it stuck out because one of our friends told us, “Hey, one of my artists Lil Peep got a feature from you guys and he never actually got it because this guy intercepted it.” This was, like, 2015. Somebody else took the song and released it without Peep on it. He was hitting us up when we had like 3,000 followers on SoundCloud offering to pay us $100 for a feature. Someone who was in that world and who vocally counted you as an influence was Lil Peep. I need you to get them to me tonight.” Mind you, I’m working a nine-to-five job at the time, so it was rough. It was just like, you get a phone call from them every day saying, “Hey, I need this beat, this type of beat, this type of beat, and this type of beat because so and so, and so and so, and so and so are working on an album. It’s not like visiting offices and networking and meeting new people. S: It was odd because it’s not like this. Put it this way: this person’s living in a mansion off of it and I got a $70,000 check, total. I’d rather not talk about them because it gets under my skin. I had an in-house deal and I got royally screwed over.ĭid any songs from that ever get released? Scott, you actually had a production deal with Universal/Republic for a while, right?
People think it was very fast, but I’ve been doing this since I was 13.
It was so fast.” I’m like, “Not fast at all,” because we’ve been doing this for such a long time. This is gonna happen.” People always tell us, “Hey, that was quick. important to get your shit together at a certain age. Ever since I started recording for Suicideboys, we told each other there’s no other outcomes besides us doing this. So, what is it like after grinding for that long, to have something actually successful on a scale that you hadn’t hit before? You guys have 10 years of being in punk bands and being a DJ. We can’t keep making the same style of music.” Especially in this day and age, the trends in music and the trends in everything change so quickly that it’s smart of you to take note of the upcoming trends that are approaching and take advantage of them if you’re interested in them, if it’s something that you feel. R: I would say we were focusing on not forgetting about the old Suicideboys roots but also embracing, “Hey, we’ve been here for three years now.
How would you describe the difference in sound on this project as opposed to the 35 before it?