Producer T-Minus shares details behind the recording of J. Cole’s “7 Minute Drill”.
J. Cole returned to music with a surprise new project “Might Delete Later”, and also snapped back at Kendrick Lamar with a diss track titled “7 Minute Drill“, in response to K. Dot’s diss on “Like That” with Future & Metro Boomin.
T-Minus, who produced the first half of the song, revealed behind-the-scenes details of making the song and the title for it. Cole likes to do these writing drills,” he told Complex‘s Jordan Rose at a Dreamville Festival panel. “He calls them ‘seven-minute writing drills.’ He’ll write a joint for like seven minutes and see how far he can get, but he also does it with production. So over the last few years, when we cook up, he’ll be like, ‘Yo, make a beat in seven minutes. Go.’”
“Sometimes I’ll be like, ‘You do a verse in seven minutes.’ So after I did my seven-minute beat, I was like, ‘It’s your turn.’ He’s like, ‘Yo, give me a word.’ So I looked at my FL Studio system and I saw the word ‘light,’ so I was like, ‘light.’ He took it from there and started with ‘light.’” “I left the room, gave him seven minutes and came back. He’s like, ‘Yo, just give me another seven minutes. I think I’ve got something going.’ And, you know, the rest is history.”
T-Minus on the making of “7 Minute Drill” 👀
– J. Cole’s verse came from one of his 7-minute exercises.
– T-Minus made the beat in 7 minutes.
– J. Cole asked T-Minus to give him a word to start the song with…“I looked at my FL Studios system and I saw the word ‘light’… and… pic.twitter.com/PnqmOPsdBi
— Complex Music (@ComplexMusic) April 5, 2024
