CEO Morning Show Ep 35
Today we interviewed Dallas born producer Lil Ju Made Da Beat who has been making beats for over 10 years. His first placement was with Gucci Mane over 5 years ago and he never had his life changing moment until recently when he produced Big Ol Freak and Ca$H $hit for Megan Thee Stallion & DaBaby.
He told us about his entire life come up story and dropped some advice to aspiring producers in our Live Q&A section at the end.
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
02:01 Episode overview
06:54 Lil JuMadeDaBeat joins the stream
07:33 Lil JuMadeDaBeat shares his come up story: Playing percussion as kid, getting into beats in 2008, knowing basic music theory, sampling influence
11:14 Lil Ju’s opinion on loops and best way to send him loops
14:18 Lil Ju’s experience from doing a beat battle
15:26 What Lil Ju did early on to get his name out there, not worrying about the money, using college to focus on making beats, differences between music scene in Dallas vs Houston, relationship with June James
20:49 Lil Ju’s opinion of college
25:31 Lil Ju’s first placement with Gucci, being afraid of failure, making $700 in the studio, quitting job
33:47 Lil Ju working and coming up with Megan the Stallion, getting called by publishing groups, knowing his worth, patience
47:21 Lil Ju’s life changing moment after signing a big deal, first thing Ju bought after getting his first big check, moving to LA
51:05 Q&A with Resmond: What is Lil Ju’s ultimate goal in 5 to 10 years, expanding his sound, artists he’s been working with
56:24 Lil Ju’s go to VST
56:58 Q&A with Dwill: How to build your page after getting placements, how to get people to pay more for beats, how to filter who to give free beats, sending beats to multiple artists
01:09:16 Q&A with Avi: Did the publishers Lil Ju signed to deliver on their promises, progression from relationships made on social media, how essential is signing a pub deal to the producer
01:16:34 Outro
