Kenny Beats has recounted the unusual consequence of him gifting a younger musician $20,000 price of studio gear in 2020.
The producer acquired in contact with the boy named Ray, after a photograph of him recording a verse of a track in a makeshift studio set-up in his bed room in the course of the pandemic went viral on social media.
“He presupposed to be cleansing the room not within the rattling studio,” the caption of the viral put up reads.
Inside days of the photograph going viral, Beats gifted Ray a whole residence studio to assist him degree up his manufacturing expertise. Practically 4 years later, Beats supplied an replace on the unusual flip of occasions that adopted after a follower on X/Twitter requested what grew to become of the boy.
“We gave this younger man $20,000 in studio gear,” he tweeted on Sunday (seventh January). “He acquired 40,000 followers in minutes. Then he began going stay with strippers for six hours a day on insta. Looks like all of it labored out.”
We gave this younger man $20,000 in studio gear
He acquired 40,000 followers in minutes
Then he began going stay with strippers for six hours a day on insta
Looks like all of it labored out https://t.co/Mzu0jPDgT9
— kennybeats (@kennybeats) January 7, 2024
❤️🙏 pic.twitter.com/7ybfS21gTX
— ₱.$ 🦂 (@p_londres) June 10, 2020
Ray is hardly the one one who’s benefitted from Beats’ generosity. In a subsequent put up responding to a commenter who steered it “would have been smarter to assist a number of individuals with decrease costing gear”, the producer stated he had given away “over $300,000 in merchandise and equipment and money to totally different producers on twitch over 3 years”.
Would have been smarter to assist a number of individuals with decrease costing gear. However that doesn’t make for an thrilling sufficient title does it?
— Pedakin (TWITCH PARTNER) (@Pedakin) January 8, 2024
he presupposed to be cleansing the room not within the rattling studio 🤦♂️ pic.twitter.com/098XJoxzQF
— Z (@zactaviss) June 5, 2020
In the meantime, Beats additionally lately revealed how he discovered swing in his drums, saying “I grew up with visible music.”
In a latest podcast with Rick Rubin, the musician says that he by no means discovered swing in his drums from jamming away on an MPC, however moderately visually from a grid.
“For me, bounce, swing, groove, any really feel – while you grew up making beats on a laptop computer versus recording music to tape… I see, swing and bounce visually. Yeah, I grew up with a grid, I grew up with visible music.”
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