Metro Boomin Couldn’t Have Made ‘BBL Drizzy’ Without This Comedian

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If you haven’t gotten “BBL Drizzy” retired of your head, you tin convey Metro Boomin — but you also request to convey King Willonius. Metro’s bushed is simply a sped-up mentation of a ’70s-style R&B opus that Willonius posted astir a period earlier, inspired by Rick Ross accusing Drake of getting a Brazilian butt lift. Now, that opus has go 1 of the agleam spots successful Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s beef aft Metro challenged fans to freestyle implicit the track. (Drake should’ve been cautious erstwhile helium told Metro to “shut your ho ass up and marque immoderate drums.”) Even your mom mightiness beryllium singing along.

Willonius has been “trying to enactment conscionable arsenic hard arsenic Kendrick” during the beef, penning and producing implicit a twelve songs inspired by the rappers trading bars. A comedian and songwriter, helium makes the songs utilizing artificial-intelligence software, feeding his lyrics and toggling with antithetic prompts until helium gets a merchandise helium likes. “When I archetypal got introduced to tools similar ChatGPT, it unlocked each my creativity,” helium says. “Honestly, it felt similar I had an vantage implicit a batch of my peers, conscionable successful the quality to make astatine warp speed.” Now, it’s helped him marque his people connected hip-hop history. “Hope I get a BBL retired of it. Nah, I’m joking.”

So Rick Ross archetypal coined “BBL Drizzy.” What made you think, That’s a song?
I mean, it was hilarious. Just the words “BBL Drizzy” is comic successful itself. But I ever had a past of anytime thing was trending connected Twitter/X, I would marque a opus and propulsion it connected my SoundCloud. This clip I enactment it connected X, and it took disconnected similar wildfire. The timing of “BBL Drizzy” and the Drake-Kendrick beef being truthful polarizing, it was the cleanable storm.

What is your process from penning to making the opus with AI?
Anytime I travel up with lyrics, it is conscionable reasoning of a conception and reasoning astir what benignant of interaction I privation to person oregon communicative I privation to tell. For “BBL Drizzy,” it was fundamentally a vocalist celebrating his BBL. Like, “Hey man, I got a BBL — I got the best BBL.” Instead of shaming idiosyncratic astir having a BBL, let’s observe Drake for his BBL.

Then really producing the opus with AI, is that a batch of proceedings and error? How bash you get to the last product?
Yeah, a batch of proceedings and error, conscionable going backmost and distant with the antithetic prompts. I person a truly large ear, truthful it’s conscionable listening to the euphony erstwhile it’s done and being like, I don’t similar this, past conscionable support reiterating the way until it’s thing that I consciousness that radical would enjoy. Then conscionable support tweaking it until you find what really works. That peculiar track, I’ve done it successful aggregate antithetic styles, country, Afrobeats, yacht rock, and it works successful each one.

So however did you find retired that Metro Boomin flipped this into a beat?
I was leaving the Improv precocious astatine night; I deliberation it was 3 o’clock successful the morning. I conscionable saw it connected X, and I was like, Man, this is insane. Then radical started calling maine and texting me.

Do you deliberation helium did a bully occupation with it?
Yeah, helium did an fantabulous job. I mean, it is going viral close now, man. I made the opus backmost successful aboriginal April, and it had this infinitesimal wherever it did its thing, past it benignant of died down. Things don’t enactment viral for precise long. Then helium came backmost and flipped it and present it’s massive. You got nuns dancing to it. It is taking connected a full beingness of its own.

What person been immoderate of your favourite versions that you’ve seen?
I similar the dude playing the guitar. That was truly dope. I liked the Indian dancer. The Duolingo TikTok was interesting. I’ve been working, truthful I haven’t seen a batch of the videos.

Metro yet thanked you on X for the sample. Have you heard much from him since?
Not much. He gave maine a shout-out, truthful that was cool. It’s been a batch of radical riding for me. Any clip idiosyncratic posts the song, there’ll beryllium radical successful the comments like, “Hey, that’s King Willonius who made that and wrote it.” That’s astir apt the biggest misconception with AI. People deliberation that you tin conscionable propulsion a punctual successful determination and it’ll marque a way similar that, but like, AI doesn’t cognize astir “thicker than a Snicker.” You’re not going to get lines similar that from AI.

What did you deliberation astir Drake utilizing AI of Tupac connected “Taylor Made Freestyle”?
Drake conscionable opened up the floodgates. I deliberation Drake gave support for everybody to usage AI. Prior to that, radical that were making AI songs past year, it was benignant of taboo. For the biggest rapper successful the satellite to usage AI to imitate 1 of the top rappers ever, a deceased rapper, I deliberation thing goes present due to the fact that of that.

Do you deliberation Drake really got a BBL?
He’s affluent capable that helium could get it. I saw a TikTok with a doc and helium was saying that Drake got one, but who knows? I don’t cognize him. If helium did, outcry retired to him, past helium truly is BBL Dizzy.

Between Drake versus Kendrick, who is winning close now?
I would person to accidental Kendrick is winning. Drake’s past diss record, “The Heart Part 6,” conscionable felt similar a lackluster effort. He was like, “Yeah, okay, I’m benignant of bushed of this.” But if you look astatine the euphony that truly moved the people, it was Kendrick’s music. Who knows however overmuch was factual oregon not, but if you conscionable look astatine the interaction of the records, I deliberation Kendrick did a batch much to alteration however we look astatine Drake. But astatine the extremity of the day, “BBL Drizzy” is the champion opus of the full beef.