Chords for Break Down - J.Cole explains "Power Trip" production

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[G] _ _ _ [Eb] I [B] was thinking about fucking keeping it.
[N] _ _ He was so married to this shit.
He was _ like, yo, I don't even know if [Bbm] I need to get me a yellow.
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[Ab] _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ [Gb] When I got that natural reaction, I was like, okay.
_ This fucking yo.
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_ _ _ _ _ I played this shit with No I.D. this nigga stood up and clapped.
You got to know his reactions and like he only gives you like a network.
That's a great reaction.
Yeah, that's good.
Like we does is like [G] that's a good reason.
Great.
This nigga stood up and like, oh crap, dog.
I was like, fuck you.
Let's go.
That's a producer.
We flew to L.A. just to play this shit for _ just to play this shit _ for the sound.
So different. _ _
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[F] _ _ _ _ [Ab] So as I heard acid, oh [A] shit.
Hold up.
[N] _ You know, it's not like right there.
Some beat nuts shit.
_ Oh, right there.
Yeah, it's like magic.
Yeah.
But yo, as soon as I heard that part, I knew what I was going to do.
I knew I just needed that.
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_ _ _ [E] _ I knew right away I was going to loop that [Bb] on top.
So then you get this.
Then you get.
Oh, _
[Bbm] _ oh, _ _ _ oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, _ oh, oh, _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Bbm] oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, _ [Ab] _ _
_ [Db] oh, oh, oh, oh, _
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[Ab] _ _ _ [Bbm] _ oh, oh, _
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_ [Bbm] _ _ oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, [Ab] oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
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Oh. Oh.
Oh.
[N] Oh.
So I'm in the crib rocking.
_ Oh, and then I added the 808.
_ _ Rocking though, I knew everything was building.
and I knew _ every step up until it hit a certain point. _
_ _ Like the 808, I knew right away I had to add it.
[Bbm] I don't know what this is. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Oh.
So I got.
That's like one of my favorite sounds.
Yeah, that's dope.
That's dope. _ _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] Oh.
_ [Gb] Oh.
_ _ Oh. Oh.
That's so dope.
_ [Ab] That's so dope. Yeah, yeah.
[Bbm] That's dope.
That's dope.
That's dope. That's dope.
[Ab] That's dope.
_ _ That's dope.
You don't even know why you like [Bbm] it.
It's just like one of the things that's just dope.
I'm like, it's 808.
Definitely time for the fucking 808. _ _ _ _
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_ Oh.
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_ [Ab] _ Oh. Oh.
[Bbm] Oh.
Oh.
[C] Oh.
Oh. Oh. Oh.
That's the sound the 808 is the perfect.
Like they match each other perfectly.
They sit like here's the kick and here's the 808.
And they just like.
That's cause that kick is friendly yo.
That kick.
So friendly.
It gives you mad room for that 808.
_ _ _ So empty.
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[N] so when I had the _ 808, _ _
I was already humming melodies dog.
I thought I was good.
Like at this point I'm thinking like,
oh, this could be somebody R&B song.
You know what I mean?
I'm thinking like,
you know that nigga we was talking about signing?
I'm thinking about shipping him.
I'm thinking like.
Oh yeah, you told me.
You was like.
Yeah, I'm like, I'm thinking of melodies for other people.
R&B stuff.
R&B shit, right?
_ Because I only had this part of the beat.
It was only this.
All the hard shit came in.
Right.
_ _ _ _ [Bbm] So.
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_ _ _ So I had this.
And I'm in the [Ab] crib going dancing and [Gb] shit.
_ _ But this is where shit got real.
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I [B] found this percussion sound and slowed it [C] down a little bit. _
There it go.
[Db] _ _ This sound is originally. _
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Oh God.
This sound is this.
_ Oh shit.
[Ab] Wow.
_ Yo, that's the craziest part of this beat.
I love doing that shit though, man.
Something about that [Bbm] shit.
That did.
Something about slowing it down.
That did. _ _ _ _ _
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[Ebm] That's when I went right [Ab] to that bass line.
I just need something to follow that rhythm.
The fact that you took that sound
and made it and slowed it down like that.
That's the craziest part of the beat right there.
Yeah.
The fact that you made that choice.
I was thinking over the top.
Yeah.
Like it was such a creative choice.
When that got added, I knew right away like,
oh, this shit just got that much bigger.
Sounded [N] different than anything.
Immediately.
The crazy shit was, it was Mad Organic. _ _
Amongst the whole set.
I was all brought it up.
We all brought it up.
I was like, yo, that's the craziest shit.
But he was like, yo, that's the craziest shit.
And then we told him, you told Mez that shit.
I told Mez, I was like, yo, that is the craziest shit.
He's like, who the fuck's going to walk around
singing jigger jigger jigger.
And then I walked in.
And then he walked in like two minutes later.
And then I was like jigger jigger jigger.
[Bb] It was like two minutes. _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] Oh, then I added a background.
That's my last thing I'm going to tell.
The backgrounds are the craziest shit too.
_ Oh, I love your [C] details.
Yeah, man.
Doesn't even [Bbm] sound like you. _ _
Oh, the,
Ooh. _ _ _ _
_ _ Ha ha. _ _ _ _
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[Gb] _ _ [F] _ You _ ever play that beat I did for Jay?
[A] _ No, they was telling me about [Db] it though.
Ooh.
This is an interesting situation. _
One of Derek's words, you got it.
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