How Rappers Actually Record Music in Jail

How do rappers record music in jail? Incarceration is meant to strip away all your freedom as a form of punishment, however the truth is that’s definitely never stopped rappers such as Young Thug, Tory Lanez, or Lil Wayne to name a few... from continuing to drop new music for their fans. And as technology’s advanced so has the process of recording bars behind bars. In this video we see exactly how artists and engineers are able to record new music from prison.
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[@guerrepsychologique5154]

That was hella interesting

[@dmacrolens]

Simp.

[@mtmartin3336]

It was.. until the guy proceeded to talk in circles for 12 minutes before the interesting part finally came😂

[@Lefthadedbilly24]

So gullible if you think they locked up you crazy

[@nicjo_]

real

[@theawesomegamer_]

@@mtmartin3336 and he didn't even tell us HOW he did it.. just that he 'figured out'. One of the worst videos i've watched in a while

[@Mychael..]

Tory should tell tay k the secret, it’s been like 5yrs from his last solo song😭😭😭

[@realboy24]

😂😂😂

[@kennycolder]

Best rapper locked up rn besides thug

[@FervidEvening]

​@@kennycoldertory better

[@NicholasRam-z8p]

😂😂 that is funny af

[@finchtz9714]

😂

[@Kwayjaye]

He definitely using a cell phone mic with BANDLAB

[@pe7e]

That's what it sounds like

[@ShriLIVE]

This is most likely what he’s doing, I’m pretty sure he got the Apple earbuds and BandLab on a smuggled phone

[@purpleheart69420]

No, lets face it, most hig music people use apple, so hes probably recording on garageband ios since you can export the whole projects straight to logic pro x

[@letslovexgehst]

⁠@@purpleheart69420BandLab is on apple too

[@marcusjamestv]

Or Rapchat that’s what I use long as you got some good quality headphones you can almost get studio sound from Rapchat

[@VibeFirstPHL]

audio restoration through AI is a real deal thing. I use it for my job in the film industry to restore audio from shitty sounding Zoom calls.

[@valerieee36]

which software do you use

[@TrapKeyLow]

What software?

[@SHUTDOWNOfficial]

@@valerieee36 Probably AudioSR (more tailored towards general purpose audio such as music/SFX) or Adobe Speech Enhancer (for speech)

[@VibeFirstPHL]

@@SHUTDOWNOfficial Adobe speech enhancer is one of the tools but you're missing another

[@noThankyou-g5c]

Ozone suite is another one although i dont rlly need to use it ever so idk how good itd be for this purpose

[@Moneychaser345]

Tory Lanez music he recorded in jail actually does sound a million times better than vultures 2

[@selfishbeats]

kanye albums always have terrible mixes IDK why

[@roxlife8173]

My GOAT 🙏 But fr Kanye's fixed mixing is way better than on release.

[@cauasilva1130]

​@@selfishbeatsLol l guess your comment is dumb, l guess you don't listen to Kanye albums, is sound pretty cool go listen to donda, Ye, kids see ghosts life of Pablo, and you Gon see, mike dean mix all his albums your comment sound anormal lol Taylor fan

[@blank1778]

@@selfishbeatsall the GAS makes u lose brain cells

[@Konkov]

@@selfishbeatshis mixing is amazing it’s just vultures that’s bad

[@OrbitalVibes]

Tory could record prison phone quality tracks. Then his engineer could send them to A.I that was trained on Tory's voice to sound like him and then engineer just needed to mix & master it right.

[@rxmce]

Damn i just wrote the same thing and then saw ur comment😂

[@LearningJesus]

Actually thats a genius idea! Lol

[@Imlaidin]

It wouldn’t sound good that way because Ai can sound off in certain parts. Prob just a mic and connects it to his phone. They can smuggle it in the way they smuggle contraband

[@NardEaterYT]

@@Imlaidin doubt that, too risky

[@AZaqZaqProduction]

@@Imlaidin AI + meticulous post processing by a talented engineer could patch up the rough parts

[@youngscott1074]

y'all don't know anything about recording vocals and use of AI fr, tory must have put the pillow behind the phone and blanket over himself and phone , best example is recording of no bystanders by travis

[@OTWGAME]

Naw. That shit too clear.

[@breddabeatz]

Facts, watch vybez kartel interview and you hear him say that’s what he did in prison

[@kidzn]

@@OTWGAMEnewer phones can record high quality vocals especially if mixed in a high quality studio, I’ve seen a $20 mic record high quality music in a professional studio

[@learn2xpand862]

@@kidznmy iPhone 15 mic sounds great fr

[@AndreGivenchy]

Travis got a good mic unlike tory

[@Mrpersonultra]

0:38 necessary Kanye stray tbh

[@fredneilson8904]

did he lie?

[@2FaceGeminiii]

@@fredneilson8904he’s saying it was necessary

[@Goofyahhhhs]

In 10 years everybody gonna say Vultures was good work. His best? Nowhere close. But not what y’all be saying about it now.

[@slades_salad]

@@Goofyahhhhs that shit is NOT 808s or yeezus bro

[@Goofyahhhhs]

@@slades_salad never said it was, but the vultures era has great songs still. People just hating to fit in with others.

[@Hellismary]

Drakeo The Ruler is the first rapper that comes to mind when thinking of albums recorded in jail

[@OsamaBxnTrappin]

I think Mac Dre did it 2 but idk if it was ah album but #WeKnowTheTruth #LongLiveDrakeo 🕊️🐐🕊️ #LongLiveMacDre 🕊️🐐🕊️

[@TrackHustlersENT]

Shyne

[@marcuswesley1752]

X raided from California

[@letowilliams6461]

C Murder, Pimp C and quite a few others before him.

[@Rigomortis-rv8kf]

Long live the ruler

[@landris6078]

that last shot of Young Thug in court was sad :(

[@swagfish1-c4f]

i know ur ecstatic

[@landris6078]

@@swagfish1-c4f haha yupp

[@steveballmer4569]

finished watching the whole vid

[@K0LI_on_bandlab]

glad to hear it man

[@jjjakobayersss]

💯💯💯

[@JColeNumber1Fan]

Love the videos man, keep it up

[@SkeatRoast]

Js wanted to say that I love ur vids

[@Eleven_11]

Js wanted to say thank you 🔥

[@RedragonReviews]

I always thought they had tona of unreleased music to throw out once they locked up. Then i also thought maybe they get special privilege to go to a on site studio to record. But i know ill be fascinated once i finish watching this video and find how how its really done

[@WavyUnderground]

That’s literally what it is don’t be dumb, literally the Artists managers and or Team put out Unreleased Music from their Vaults If songs are unfinished they can have a feature come in but yes the music is always unreleased and recorded before jail

[@Don1DJReepo]

See Vybz Kartel's method he claimed to have used in the production of countless hits over his 13 years prison stint.... the Dancehall star cleaned to have used older models of IPhones and wrap matters around his head to create paddings to give studio quality in internationally known track like Fever. Yeah Mon, maddd!! 🇯🇲

[@breddabeatz]

Real talk, Tory probably did something similar

[@Sheen04]

The UK has a ton of rappers who are locked up and releasing music. Mazza L20 started rapping in prison and releasing music, you can hear the progress in his mixtapes going from a jail phone to clearer mixes that you couldn’t even tell we’re recorded from jail and charting with those songs too

[@4orttune]

Mazza had a phone and used Bandlab

[@willywestsidee]

CB is another example as well

[@bigyeet8905]

​@@willywestsideebru cb has a whole ass mic in jail (ive heard)

[@lilofrfr]

yh caus in the uk they have much chiller laws around tech in prisons, a lot of low security uk jails have a tv in the cell with youtube and shi on it

[@DCP28]

There's jails on the UK that have literal studios inside it, plus in the UK they have access to a alot of tech inside, way lower "restrictions"

[@Loleruslol]

amazing video dude, you and louista make the best rap videos 🙏 💯

[@RILEYproMAGICIAN]

Burzum did it. Norway has lax rules and let you have a full computer to make songs etc. But this is rap style version

[@bigmurr6265]

Cool work brotha

[@Kxnqhypemusiq]

Vybz kartel 🇯🇲🇯🇲 record from a iphone 4 n used his mattress to cover his head n sold gold n make album 😂😂

[@breddabeatz]

I said the same thing in the comments

[@lengel85]

Worl BBC Boss

[@EvanHarman-sf3ht]

"Fu-Fu-Fuck a beat, I was tryna beat a case" 😮‍💨😞

[@idk-o3r4r]

but i aint beat that case bih i did the race

[@yomommacalled_]

to all my artist this shows talent will win over any gear u have just saying

[@NonBinary_Star]

nice video. props on the research. quality!

[@Eleven_11]

Thank you!

[@gojxrd]

W vid

[@Eleven_11]

thanks bro!

[@cgtobe6789]

Droppin bars behind bars is crazy 🙏

[@problematic_canik]

Great video man. I heard that torey mixtape and was shocked but really didnt think much of the previous artist that uploaded in prison

[@RonnieLobowski]

I always wondered this thank you

[@coolerpro2024]

I definitely knew how this was done months ago😂I’ma audio engineer myself too

[@aquariusthompson8212]

Congrats

[@ShineVIII]

tell us

[@rj6thstreet]

Good job?

[@mcsone_]

as a top 5 otb rapid chess player and doctor i approve of this message

[@Ready4jerri]

Quick question: can you discord call and rap so the other parties can screen record you in high quality and render the audio?

[@Rastaman-q3y]

They pay and They record in one of the jail offices!

[@GoldenPickaxe]

You could absolutely just run real low quality vocals of an artist through an AI of the same person trained on studio quality raw dry vocal takes and it’s going to sound incredible cause it’s the same person. People have remastered low quality leaks of artists this way, I am shocked I don’t see it done more.

[@meow_meow_J]

Retrieval-based voice conversion, or RVC, the state-of-the-art model we have now, still has very detectable artifacts for trained ear. The way RVC works is by extrapolating the closest phoneme in the dataset. So, for instance, if you set a D, it would grab the closest D to that in its dataset. However, when you have an unclear input, it can't quite decide which one is the closest and might pick the wrong one. For example, a D might be turned into a T, or a T might be turned into a P. Trust me, I've seen this happen before. So, it's a lot harder to get good quality results. One approach you could use is by using something similar to Adobe Podcast, which supposedly enhances sample rate, but that also has very detectable artifacts and suffers the same issues of RVC. For other reasons, though. Honestly, I think either A, they smuggled the phone, an iPhone, whatever, maybe even a small portable recorder or something, or B, they got access to Studio Time somehow.

[@greywinterfox]

The “ code “ Tory cracked is literally just reverse engineering. In order to get that “ over the phone “ muffled effect, engineers use equalization, creating a bell curve that cuts off frequencies anywhere below a certain hertz and above a certain hertz ( the tighter the curve, the harder the otp effect ). To reverse this process, first isolate the vocal and get rid of any reverb, then create a notch curve or the opposite of a positive bell curve, and then all you have to do is boost the surrounding frequencies in moderation, as well as any other frequencies that house the tone and sound you’re looking for.

[@greywinterfox]

But remember folks, that’s just a theory. A music theory! Thanks for reading

[@ttrrippyy7868]

@@greywinterfoxthis is so realll

[@nov23gbe]

You’re thinking too hard brother. He used a phone mic into bandlab

[@nov23gbe]

@@sith6375 it’s a reason why every great engineer says to get a good recording first. You can’t polish crap and make it gold. It’s literally not possible to take a phone call and make it sound like how Tory’s prison tapes songs sound. Recording with the voice memo app or with the iPhone mic yes. Vybz Kartel who was incarcerated used that method to record Fever and those vocals sound good.

[@kirbya9545]

Damn it’s weird to think that these music engineers and shit are super duper smart people but worked with ppl like NBA Youngboy and 21 Savage 😂

[@qtYuppt]

great video, yo content is peak

[@KanyeSoutheast9347]

peak vid

[@flr47]

kxys like whore u didnt even watch the vid it just came out

[@Eleven_11]

appreciate you watching 🔥

[@faithlessmartyr2387]

fire ass video. i fuck with with the part at 11:11

[@uzicuzi__9525]

Drakeos album was so fire it being in a bad quality makes it golden

[@planethoops7368]

happy weekend 👏

[@warriorprincesss]

Make it Rain by Pop Smoke peaked my interest on this topic a while back. Good work on the vid

[@Eleven_11]

thank you!

[@User70756]

Waittt I love that song I didn't know it was recorded in jail

[@trademarked2476]

@@User70756the rowdy rebel verse specifically.

[@Thawizrd]

Damn "...I feel like Nelson Mandela" is actually fire. Wayne felt like he was doing 27 years in there😂❤🇿🇦

[@MarkCzmic420]

Great interesting video 👍

[@Davidwest28]

For anyone that doesn't know Flow who is signed to Lil Wayne's young money (he's been on projects like sorry for the wait, dedication 4, the original leaked version of Carter 5 and lil Wayne's single off day, and was leader of a group called the flamez before joining wayne) was arrested for double murder in 2015 and has released alot of amazing quality music since getting locked up. Including his second album wolf 2. It's hard to find but it's p amazing it's all new and recorded in prison and u can't tell it was mixed perfectly.

[@alfreddoesstuff9228]

The video starts at 12:55

[@earlitymeproductionz]

Great video....Oh yea Free C-Murder

[@OfficialRayyJayy]

Bring a kanye west fan from 2009 to the year 2024 and tell them that tory lanez is currently better, they will find any way to fight you and prove you wrong

[@VZ4EE]

today it was reported his cell was raided and they took all the stuff he used to create music

[@michaelmoore-jh5nl]

Yeah, he said making a mistake he said that to the Sarge

[@lildoffy2317]

Legend to put G9 into this first scene, real ones know! For realsy man… scream Free9lokknine FreeMelly & FreeThugger too ‼️🗣️🗣️

[@premiumpreparationmedia]

Just Subscribed 🤝🏾

[@Eleven_11]

appreciate you!

[@brad6546]

U used the wrong cover for the pop smoke album 😭😭😭

[@bnkroll_t]

😂😂😂

[@austins.2495]

Cool, Brad

[@Fuckthis0341]

Poop smoke

[@exoex5128]

no its the right one you maybe only know the cover from the deluxe

[@Eleven_11]

I wanted to remind you how funny that one was

[@brandonisaac.official]

i learned a lot in this video. nice work!

[@AnnoyedHVH]

make a discord bro also do u listen to leaks? if so whats ur fav artist when it comes to leaks and what is ur fav song of all the leaks

[@tabletbooks4967]

There's an interview from years back with X-RaIded on No Jumper, on how he would use two phones to record from jail, with the second phone used to play the beat so he's properlyin sync with it, and this technique was pioneered by E-40.

[@Isaac_the_producer999]

Just subbed man

[@meumanodenzel4769]

if they have an iphone insed there why not just record on bandlab then send only the vocals to producer

[@Gabriel_Micah]

11:37 I swear I thought he said North Korean iwaslike tf is bro doin over there

[@LuckyDineroTv]

Lol

[@zayahbeatz]

I think what tory does it record it normally over the jail phone, and then his engineer separates vocal from unwanted frequencies using eq’s. This is what is done to create Accapella s but could also work to clean vocals a slight bit. After they clean vocals a tiny bit i think they put torys vocals into an ai of himself. All the ai needs is speaking and be able to understand the articulation of speech in order to be clear

[@avola3909]

this is the best theory i’ve heard

[@zayahbeatz]

@@avola3909 i think its the most realistic one too because Pre Ai he used to rap through phonecalls

[@meow_meow_J]

Retrieval-based voice conversion, or RVC, the state-of-the-art model we have now, still has very detectable artifacts for trained ear. The way RVC works is by extrapolating the closest phoneme in the dataset. So, for instance, if you set a D, it would grab the closest D to that in its dataset. However, when you have an unclear input, it can't quite decide which one is the closest and might pick the wrong one. For example, a D might be turned into a T, or a T might be turned into a P. Trust me, I've seen this happen before. So, it's a lot harder to get good quality results. One approach you could use is by using something similar to Adobe Podcast, which supposedly enhances sample rate, but that also has very detectable artifacts and suffers the same issues of RVC. For other reasons, though. Honestly, I think either A, they smuggled the phone, an iPhone, whatever, maybe even a small portable recorder or something, or B, they got access to Studio Time somehow.

[@elcurbelo]

The thumbnail is insane

[@daynewyd]

always wondered this lol

[@rapuniverze2998]

same haha

[@northwestkidmarc]

I seriously thought you weren't allowed any of this in jail 😂 I misunderstood

[@vjblue254]

Didn't know i also get a free Documentation on the History of Jail Music. Neat 😎

[@bigshys]

I MEAN TECHNOLOGY UPGRADES EVERYDAY

[@ilijaisaijevicisaijevic]

FREE Tory Lanez ☔

[@㘭]

Diddy needs this tutorial. I will send this to him. Thank you.

[@BangTimeEnt]

If he could actually create music by himself 😭

[@㘭]

@@BangTimeEnt LOL

[@lorenzoffritz]

These artists making engineers lives hell 😅

[@guitarteen2003]

Snoop dogg actually recorded the demo for 'nuthin but a g thang' in jail

[@yfrrcdyvcuggvyutgcrytfdtyftuyf]

Rondonumba9 still dropping music to this day

[@PRODJAXON]

With vocal isolation you can’t just pull a perfect audio signal out of a very low quality recording, the tools can figure out what frequencies the vocals are in the chaos, but it can’t turn a low quality vocal into a high a quality one, still gonna sound like a jail phone, but with less random background noise. The extraction process honestly degrades the quality a lot more. I rly think he would’ve needed an actual microphone for that quality.

[@Eleven_11]

yes correct.... but my thinking was they isolate the vocals and then his engineer works his magic with potentially some ai sprinkled in too

[@PRODJAXON]

@@Eleven_11 You can’t bring back dynamics that don’t exist and you can only upscale something so much, eventually you have the ship of Theseus, the processing fills in so many blanks that the end result sounds completely unnatural and over compressed, but if I’m being honest I haven’t done a deep dive into the newest ai plugins from the last 6 months, give or take, so there could be something groundbreaking idk abt. Most if not all “AI” plugins aren’t actually using real ai in their current state, but that’s another conversation, so unless there’s brand new techniques nobody knows abt, idk how tf Tory recorded this stuff over a phone. It’s more believable to me that it’s a marketing tactic tbh.

[@onitlivetv7827]

X-raided was the first person i knew to do it....

[@jaym2267]

Tory had recording equipment in his jail cell. How are none of the comments pointing this out?? His cell was raided 2 weeks ago and he even put out a statement regarding this.

[@douBBle0306]

Guys in the UK been doing this for ages. It’s not hard, you just record the vocals on a phone send them to an engineer on the outside who can make it sound like studio quality or as close as possible to that.

[@ttermedd]

Churaq Cyril and Tefflon got arrested a year ago, cyril released a album, and also was in a part of posse tape v.3

[@matveevivan138]

with ai now its simply needs a verse and flow that rapper want and thats it, good quality

[@douggie4665]

That coke bottle makes me wonder if airport security is way way better than jail security.

[@Marcinunboxing]

this is interesing dawg

[@tyquala]

The 60 days in footage😂❤

[@Cr1tikalBread]

Naaa we bouta get a Diddy drop

[@fishyyboi]

commenting bc thug is free on probation as of today

[@bigyeet8905]

In The uk people have snuck phones and even mics to jail which they use to make music. Mazza even made music videos in his cell.

[@Kilan80]

Not acknowledging slick Rick is disrespectful

[@mfndjdjdjdh]

True.

[@terryperez7615]

Somebody calls their phone and someone on the outside records it from the outside…….mabey

[@QualityCreatives]

TORY USING VOICE MEMOS AND SENDING THE VOCALS

[@Asarangosht]

If u in a quiet place, u can record high quality vocals even with very normal phones. I used samsung A32 and it was so good lol😂

[@ProdbyNixk]

Change the thumbnail. Thug outta jail lil bro👥

[@mish6937]

It's impossible to get studio quality vocals over a phone. The phone simply doesn't transmit large parts of the vocal range like the low end and high end to get the full sound. Most likely Tory is recording the vocals through the jail phone with trash quality then an AI clone is used to recreate it. Since the cadence is the same, the final product will be indistinguishable from his real voice

[@kashtides]

Exactly what I was thinking. You can often tell AI vocals because it's attempting to transform the nuances of one person's voice to someone else's, but in this case, it's a lot more straightforward

[@damiensane]

It’s band lab, my guy kaz miller mixed all of ralos last album from originally band lab stems.

[@garyshawn]

Tory just really have a great voice

[@YFEmaxi]

cool video but i cant help myself fromt thinking we still dont know excatly how he did crack the code

[@Bookiepuffer]

Vybz kartel ting different,Man dem use mattress and iphone 🇯🇲🇰🇪

[@nkhalolukhanda7914]

Bro's voice got it

[@lucky3290]

Drakeo the ruler tf 💯

[@mitchdewitt1745]

💯✅🔥💯

[@Cirnology]

MAC DRE MENTIONED!!!!! BAY AREA 4 EVER!!

[@JZKEmpire]

i woulda never expected to see project supreme in one of these vids ( a roblox player )

[@1paraadise]

how is using a stem splitter gonna clear up muddy vocals lmao? It’s pre-recorded music, he gotta be cappin'

[@1paraadise]

also, stem splitters been around for a while. DJ have been using that tool for a while now, it ain’t nothing new bro

[@marcusjamestv]

He definitely using Rapchat and the engineers mix and master it for better quality.. All my songs are made on Rapchat and don’t sound to bad to not be mix and mastered

[@crboxyt]

Snoop Dogg recorded Nuthin but a G thing with Dre from prison

[@d33beats]

Im an engineer half of the current uk rap scene are in jail and they litch jus send us vocal recordings over whatsapp that they recorded on an iphone then we just mix and master it lol

[@JohnProsciutto]

TAKE ME TO THE RIVER

[@RobNitz]

Here in Richland correctional in Mansfield Ohio they actually got a studio. Lyfe Jennings began there fun fact

[@JAYYBEATSY2K]

Can you do a video about HOW DO MUSIC PRODUCERS MAKE BEATS IN PRISON 😅

[@LLgangy]

they using bandlab on a phone and getting it professionally mixed btw it’s not that complex but also i haven’t finished the video