TM88 shows the Making of ‘XO TOUR Llif3’
Lil Uzi Vert currently has one of the biggest songs of the year with his “XO TOUR Llif3” single. Producer TM88, who co-produced the song with his producer JW Lucas, sits down with Genius for their Deconstructed series to give some insight on who the beat came together. TM88 recalls a phone conversation he had with Uzi saying that “we gotta make the most epic shit in the world.”
That’s all it took for the Atlanta beatsmith to put together a “20 pack” of beats for Uzi and knowing the club vibe he wanted to create with it. He reveals that the beat for the platinum selling song was actually a three-year-old beat, which he played’ and showed how he sampled that into what “XO TOUR Llif3” is today.
TM88 says he didn’t have much of his equipment with him and made the beat using only his laptop and a Beats by Dre Pill that he picked up at a airport because he was bored.
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