How DJ Mustard Made Kendrick Lamar "NOT LIKE US" on the MPC

[@AveMcree]

Thanks for watching *Follow DJ Mustard* IG: instagram.com/mustard/?hl=en *Sample used* Monk Higgins: www.whosampled.com/sample/1175072/Kendrick-Lamar-Not-Like-Us-Monk-Higgins-I-Believe-to-My-Soul/ *MPC Expansion used* Snipe Young: www.thempcstore.com/mpc-expansions/pure-platinum.html *MPC Plugins* Flex Beat: air-affiliate-program.sjv.io/4PkKNr Fabric XL Collection: air-affiliate-program.sjv.io/daXZz7 *Support me directly* Cashapp: $avemcree MPC Live 2: www.zzounds.com/item--AKAMPCLIVE2?siid=279706/a--3973043 (affiliate link this supports the channel no additional cost or if you choose something else) My turntable: www.zzounds.com/item--NUMPT01SCRATCH?siid=191714/a--3973043 *MPC Masterclasses* MPC ONE: 6teenlevels.com/products/mpc-one-masterclass MPC X: 6teenlevels.com/products/mpc-x-masterclass MPC Live 2: 6teenlevels.com/products/akai-mpc-live-2-masterclass (MPC Key 37 master class coming soon) Flex Beat Presets: 6teenlevels.com/products/arrays-flex-beat-preset-bank MPC chord progressions: 6teenlevels.com/collections/mpc-chord-progressions 0:00 the shot heard around the world 1:58 the glaze campaign 4:37 the Mustard & Kdot connection 6:07 how "Not Like Us" manifested 6:36 the sample used 7:14 the sampling process 10:15 program editing 11:13 those signature Mustard drum sounds 12:03 that signature Mustard groove 13:15 it's the 808s for me (key groups) 15:09 those dark pianos 15:49 make it splash (open hats) 16:07 flex for extra credit (automation & scratch effects) 18:18 that 2 bar interlude 19:23 the finished product 19:52 what I learned from studying DJ Mustard

[@the.wanginator]

This is wild, cause I personally, never thought Drake was winning.....

[@theartoflivingoutloud888]

Neither did I. They was ridin D.

[@AveMcree]

Yeah it was wild

[@SumnSumnSumnHTK]

cut it out. After family matters Drake was up. He actually rebuttaled and responded to 10 negroes. Kendrick won but to many people not in the culture influenced this battle. And yall let them.

[@TommyBull2]

I think family matters was good, but kendrick won.

[@allenRbundy]

😂😂😂

[@oleg_samples]

Respect to Kendrick, Mustard, Alchemist, Sounwave and all the producers for putting the spotlight on sampling 😎👍🏼

[@AveMcree]

Big up

[@SPACECOWBOY705]

Cardo!!!! Producer of Euphoria

[@GrandmaGrannyLuvs.....]

YESSSSSSSSS! THANK YOU GOD! Best doggone year I've had my entire life! ❤❤❤❤ you KDOT, Alchemist (you go boy), Soundwave, Mustard (Special S/O to you) and Cardo!!! That Euphoria! Oooooooooh Weeeeeeeee BayBeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! 6:16 In LA! DAYUMMMMM! All of Them! OMG! Just flawless

[@vco7531]

I’m just seeing breakfast club’s and all those other’s “predictions” for the first time 🤦‍♂️ good reminder of why I stopped paying attention to hip hop media long time ago

[@AveMcree]

Basically

[@vco7531]

@@AveMcree great video by the way 🙏

[@cuznbedrock]

Y’all have to give it up to Kendrick Lamar and Dj Mustard for a classic song! Great job on the recreation Ave. I’m a fan!

[@mbt785]

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" Id keep sending him packs until one sticks.

[@ayokikando]

Fantastic video Ave, outdid yourself in this one🔥🔥🔥

[@AveMcree]

Thank you 🙌

[@gimelmusic]

This was an amazing tutorial. You know your way around the mpc and you found all the samples! Much appreciate the knowledge 🙏🏾

[@chenchaso39]

Love the way you broke this down with background and everything. I just returned to the Mpc family due to 3.0 I’ll be looking for that masterclass. 🎉

[@stanvans3214]

I have never owned an MPC (but I do a lot of transcribing and recreation of songs,) but I watched the whole video just because of how well it was all explained. Amazing ear and recreation.

[@Pauljallen15]

Diabolical 🔥🔥🔥🔥, and I'm thinking Kendrick out if all them beats Mustard sent knew this was the one for the soul 😂

[@AveMcree]

😂facts

[@Cogito3]

"Meet the Grahams is in the key of E minor. The primary chord we hear in that song is E-7/G with an A minor 7 chord at the end of every phrase." - some guy on twitter but that could imply that kendrick was saying it because that would be the end of him. crazy asf cuz kendrick that typa petty to do that lmao.

[@lezmez-qk2bb]

The 808 mustard used is actually the Spinz 808

[@rahim4411]

KDot made history and Mustard. That's why I got rid of my MPC live to many dam parameters to go through. Daaaaaaaam Ave you killed it!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@PeanutPeanut-c9v]

All that success with "not like us" and his album flopped a month later.

[@AveMcree]

@@PeanutPeanut-c9v because he tried to use the song as a rollout... That's not how music works. The album is solid but you have to spend good money promoting it.

[@SSQMinky]

The piano was actually Omnisphere, so Mustard probably used FL Studio

[@EricJohnson-fh8zj]

I like this beat because it totally sounds like something i would make lol. There's hope!😆

[@AveMcree]

😂

[@Jojo-u6c]

It's so basic THAT if I made it and saved it...I wouldn't show it to anyone. There's times that I purposely make something basic because I can HEAR in my mind a certain style of rapper and rapping on it that would blend everything perfectly complete. However getting someone to understand that is hard. Like it's basic because it just needs YOU now. And they don't get it and are just like...,the beat is too plain for me. I give up lol.

[@therealone1288]

It sounds like 13 year Olds first beat on FL lmao

[@m0osebeard]

Great Video. This is worth the KZbin Membership. Thank you Ave. And I think I actually would stop at 100 beats sent to an artist! admired. I'd figure they'd been blocked or screened or whatever and I'd send em onto a newer artist

[@jenski5338]

3:20 3:22 3:22

[@ricardomilice2470]

Damm I actually thought this was an original piece. It was mastered nicely.

[@AveMcree]

Thanks my G

[@ItsTheFuzzMan]

Using a sample doesn't mean it's not an original "piece". What you mean to say is you thought this was original instrumentation.

[@ricardomilice2470]

@@ItsTheFuzzMan I’m a heavy sampler myself……that’s not what I was trying to say. For some reason I thought this was a Dr Dre track and Dre always sample something and have musicians replay it to make it sound crisp.

[@thomasprislacjr.4063]

Damn that original recording sampled from was smooth though.

[@RegalToneT]

This more of what I believe you should be doing bro. Good content!!

[@LanceLovesEverybody]

I absolutely love your channel

[@pyrokami2520]

*A Minor* adjustment 10:23

[@Algorythm-C]

This was easy money.... Simplicity is key indeed

[@traqsmackbeatz]

Thank you for this video. Really appreciate it.

[@AveMcree]

My pleasure

[@jg2600]

Man im about to go listen to Mustards new album just to hear his sounds 💪🏾. Your vids are inspiring boss

[@theartoflivingoutloud888]

Thanks for the history lesson and all the knowledge.

[@AveMcree]

Any time!

[@randydaboss_official]

Thank you for this! I'm new to the mpc live 2 and have been stressing learning sampling but this was very helpful

[@brycemack9284]

That background beat is fire🔥🔥🔥

[@AveMcree]

Thanks! I ended up doing a remix of not like us

[@jae6220]

Your editing on this was dope

[@AveMcree]

Thanks I’ve been trying to step it up a little bit

[@shanellbailey7105]

I'm amazed at the special gifts God gives each of us.🤗

[@tonystark6263]

Great teaching skills. I learned alot from you in this short video.

[@tee2008j]

I knew it was pure platnum from snipe as soon as I heard it been using that expansion since it came out great vid AVE

[@Dontez82]

Great video brother! Love your work

[@sebp400]

I m not sure it's a scratch effect on that bass note, it sounds like a retrig (fast roll). It always fascinated me that he programmed it that way. Makes it kinda glitch.

[@MusicFanatic13012]

WHAT? YOU COULD PLUG YOUR IPAD INTO THE MPC AND PLAY THE SAMPLE?

[@jamesjackson463]

Thank you for that breakdown djAve the science behind this beat making craft I still have a chance to win …✊🏿🎶🔥

[@PeaceOut.12]

Whop Whop Whoo WhopWhop Ave fc um up😂

[@AveMcree]

😂😂😂😂

[@tvbeastbeatz87]

4:31 PICTURING AK IN A THONG IS CRAZY

[@Sinosure]

Ave, you da man!! Great video!! Love the sample he chose & how he pitched it up!! Like you said Ave, MINIMALIST!! That describes me too! I don't think you need to do a lot to create great beats!! It's also in the sample choice too!! Mustard hooked it up just taking it to A minor!!🤣🤣🤣🤣 Simple, but effective!!💯👊🏾

[@AveMcree]

Glad you liked it!

[@Divine-Divinity]

Snipe young look like the only person who can smell what the rock was cooking till this day

[@trackzonville]

Great breakdown Ave.

[@andremack1580]

I was like “Ave recreated the Meet the Grahams instrumental, I would be dead wrong for him to not try to recreate the very next diss that Kendrick did after M.T.G” Thank you for this video, Ave 🙂

[@AveMcree]

Yeah, I sat on this video for quite a while and it was stressing me out in the back of my mind. Now I feel a whole lot better and can get on to other topics.

[@theoburden6592]

Yea I know five groups one I was in but got voted out because I was too lyrical or blamed to write more then others but the bad part I was making our music lol. But the others I tried to get a verse in but egos got the best of them including Feild Mob. Now I’m working with Fat Bastard working with my son on producing so I’m good at least my son will be famous.

[@tesaikealiiolanakila]

I wouldn’t stop sending beats just because ☝🏾 folks don’t really understand the beat makers mind, just like any other artist just does it. Kinda like Wayne or Tupac even RZA for 🤌🏾🤌🏾all the shizzam you hear there’s there’s aahhhhheap ahhh Black Adams you’ll NEVER HEAR we have soooo MANY ideas. ✌🏾🫵🏾🙅🏾‍♂🧠 what someone will like 🤷🏾‍♂🤴🏾🤙🏾

[@InvaderSupreme]

Very dope breakdown 🔥🔥🔥

[@jt86tn]

He made this beat in FL Studio mobile

[@skywalka02]

To be fair, Drake was in the lead so I wouldn’t call it glazing (except for Akedemics) but then K Dot went on 100-0 run and Drake never scored again…

[@SynicalBeats]

I just realized.... Crook must have written that for Drake lol

[@anthonyfahie9071]

That cougar will kill that pit

[@jessymina]

Bangin video Ave!!

[@AveMcree]

Appreciate it

[@BlowWord.]

When i think of the sample i instantly picture the movie Ray

[@AveMcree]

That’s one of my favorite movies of all time

[@blasthousemusic]

that intro,,,,,fire

[@birdbangbobaruni]

He a fan great breakdowns

[@chillwill7s60]

A lot of beats are made like that, that's what dr. Dre those. It's like classics on steroids

[@sooesoss6063]

Why call it EXPOSED? OK mustard sampled... whats the biggy. AVE you have super skills and very well respected in the instructor/producer comunity... I would have called it.. "pro level producer hack" All this is said with Respect!

[@trackfammusic2979]

Super dope video 🔥

[@AveMcree]

Thanks 🔥

[@youngpros14]

You forgot one sample. He sampled two phrases of the same set of notes for the verse. You only got one of em. How do you not know this?

[@MusicFanatic13012]

10:40 😂😂

[@sir0623]

Awesome Job!

[@AveMcree]

Thanks!

[@WhyNotQuestionEverything]

🔥🔥🔥

[@PooFace2030]

I wonder if Mustard actually made the beat on a mp?

[@AfricanBootySlappers]

he def uses the live2 wont be surprised

[@AveMcree]

Literally showed footage of Mustard using the MPC live 2 on ESPN 😂

[@PooFace2030]

@@AveMcree no, I have seen that video. But Im wondering if he made this particular beat at the time of its inception on a MPC. Or if he used a daw like he used to.

[@4ngeldus739]

This might be a dumb question, but, is it possible to load apps on the MPC? The OS looks like its android based

[@BACbeatzlive]

I would give up after a while (maybe 50) if there is no communication, and the beats I send would be in limbo. Sometimes it’s a vibe, some artist you know they trying to catch a vibe so it’ll happen, some you feel the vibe nothing is possibly going to happen.

[@kymlittlefield4389]

ok ave this is good

[@johnmoreno5965]

They not like us is the kindest diss track I've ever heard. Wop wop wop LmMFaol

[@donalduzoka5792]

The simple but hella hot!

[@adelismail9321]

If the MPC is not Roger Linn it’s just an app in a box dosnt have the soul and midi compression pressure if you don’t know now you know that is why the SR10 and 3k sound like how thy sound

[@AveMcree]

how you don't that isn't working Roger Linn on this version?... weird take my guy lol

[@adelismail9321]

@@AveMcree ?????

[@DJones21743]

3:22 damn. They used Mal in this. 😂😂😂

[@forsale313]

Sure I would keep sending them (By the Hundreds) because I make hundreds of them. But lets understand one thing.........My favorite artist in NOT the only one that is being sent beats.

[@AveMcree]

😂😂😂facts

[@gooneybird808]

The cream always rises to the top…macho man randy savage

[@AveMcree]

Oh yeah

[@nodayoff1000]

Fire my guy

[@AveMcree]

Thank you

[@hugodjon1dj-on]

RIP DARKE

[@Metareduxxx]

great video

[@businessaccount9079]

Mine doesnt show the dry and wet tab… yes i followed everything you said changing project tab and inserts how do i fix?

[@FlatWHDF]

Serato has the tempo at 100

[@EricJohnson-fh8zj]

DeconTructed! ✌️

[@1704quimico]

mis respetos bro

[@jjbing3]

I know that sample from the movie Ray 🙌🏾

[@AveMcree]

Y’all are going to make me watch that movie again

[@culturemax234]

Somebody need to clean their mpc pads and buttons 🤦🏿‍♂️

[@daveyleeriot]

Drakes career shoulda been done after Pusha T bodied him. It blows my mind how the whole world continued to ride his jock for a decade+ until now...

[@beardedelephant3023]

🔥

[@ItsTheFuzzMan]

"Decontructed"???...typo bro...pull it down and reup.

[@AveMcree]

It’s spelled correctly

[@ItsTheFuzzMan]

​@@AveMcree is there some kind of meaning behind the misspelling I'm not getting? It's clearly missing an S

[@ERYKJACKNIFE]

13:12 that shh sounds like a hip hop demo preset. This song is Straight up toy.

[@gsmith11172]

Nice

[@AveMcree]

Thanks

[@LanceLovesEverybody]

Trying to strike a chord... 10:41

[@zeitgeist909]

Please, CLEAN that thang. Hawk Tuah and wipe if you have to (I'd suggest a standard kitchen cleaner TBH, but you do you my guy). That is the dirtiest MPC I have seen in a while and I'm not talking the sub-bass.

[@EoSixs]

Top ❤ Brasil

[@MF_BERT]

🎉

[@lezmez-qk2bb]

The main sample the string instrument you only sampled the first four notes then there’s a nother four notes

[@AveMcree]

I can tell you didn't watch the video and no he didn't use the spinz 808.

[@lezmez-qk2bb]

@@AveMcreeaiden kenway remade the song and the 808 he used was the Spinz 808 it literally was you used a 808 that didnt anything like it I compared the wave forms and you only used the first four notes for your remake you know it was wrong

[@davidriley1702]

Not perfect, but 👍👍👍👍👍👍 good enough

[@HubertCopeland-mu3eh]

Where's the REMIXX.......HUH...😅😅😅...niceeeeee deconstruction 😅

[@AveMcree]

😂thanks

[@crazybabytvworld]

It's a simple beat. Like most hit songs. Simple....... Sampling

[@Prod.Sweezy]

pretty sure the bass was just a spinz 808

[@bboymac84]

Not bad attempt but you are missing the other part of the sample. It’s 8 bars not 4. You discarded. 🤦🏾‍♂️Also the song is at 101BPM not 98. Other than that you nailed it 👍🏽

[@AveMcree]

I didn’t miss any part of the sample. Perhaps the time stamps are wonky due to the copyright issues. Also, mustard has always worked with 4 bar loops. Making it a total of 3 sequences.

[@bboymac84]

@@AveMcree sorry you did miss the beginning of the sample. Listen to the song again trust me…

[@SmokeyBoat-wk1le]

Yeah Ave he is right, every other bar the strings sustain. Hard to explain over text but it’s like: DO-DO-DO-DO DO-DO-DO-DOooo

[@bboymac84]

@@SmokeyBoat-wk1le thank you!! Lol there are tutorials who made the same song.

[@reddirt5467]

Would love to see you remake BBL Drizzy

[@JohnathanMonroe22583]

I honestly didn't like that much until I listened to it more

[@ShazammtheProducer]

same i still dont lol but like Pac he made the beat

[@AveMcree]

No doubt

[@larrymyers5989]

I was not crazy about the beat honestly. Nonetheless dope video

[@els1f]

Ngl, it almost feels better to see akademiks be silenced than Drake, and I've been in the Drake-hater club since its founding 🙃

[@AveMcree]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@culturemax234]

Keep the beats grimmy not the machine lol

[@1stBORNMTM]

KenDRAKE 😂