Respect Mag was able to sit down with Brick Squad producer Southside for an interview. During the chat, he gave a brief background of the Watch The Throne bonus cut ‘Illest Motherf**ker Alive’.
“Illest Motherfucker Alive” is actually my favorite record on the album. How’d you get involved in that?
I was in the studio with Lex Luger when he co-produced the “See Me Now” record, when he was adding the stuff onto it. And Ye’s manager was in there, and Ye’s manager was like, “Give me some beats, man. I might get you a placement or something you won’t believe.” From there on it just went like that. Kanye hit us and was like, “Yeah, I want the track so I can do what I do to it.” So I sent him the track out and we got the “Illest Motherfucker Alive”.
I immediately recognized your drums on that beat, like the snare. How much of the record is your original beat, and what did Kanye add?
Kanye added mostly all the synths. I did the drums, the snares, the hi-hat, and the breakdowns. Basically I added the 808, the new 808, and he put his Kanye classical, musical space-synth stuff to it.
Yeah, the opera.
Yeah, the opera. You know how Kanye is. He go crazy with stuff like that. It’s like he sees a movie in his head or something.
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