Chords for Deputy breaks down the beat for Rihanna "Bitch Better Have My Money"

_ Yo, yo, yo, what's up?
This is Deputy, producer bitch, better have my money. _
_ [B] _ [G] I got the name Deputy a couple years back.
I used to produce with a friend of [E] mine.
And we were trying to come up with a name for our production [Em] team.
[G] And I thought of The [Gbm] Deputies.
So, for like two, [G] three months, [B] five months we were going with The [D] Deputies,
we hit a crossroad where we creatively wanted to go [Bm] two separate ways.
So I just felt it was cool to just keep the name [A] Deputy.
I'm from Brooklyn, New York, [Bm] born and raised.
[F] And living in Brooklyn, [Gbm] living in New York,
[C] you're surrounded by so much [B] diversity that you hear a little bit of [E] everything.
And [C] growing up in [B] that environment [E] shaped my creativity to where I'm not in a [C] box.
My first instrument ever [G] played was a steel drum.
My parents are West Indian and from Trinidad.
I was introduced to the [B] steel drum probably about eight, nine years old.
[D] Played that for a few [C] years, learned music [Bm] theory.
And at some point in time, [Em] I decided to take what I learned from the steel drum [D] and transfer it over to the [Gb] keyboard.
When I decided I wanted [D] to produce, I taught myself how to [B] play the piano.
[E] I just took, you know, whatever musical information that I had [C] from the steel drum [B] and transferred it over to the keyboard.
[D] I started on Logic, right?
And [C] I think Logic is really [Eb] dope, bitch, better have my money, [B] was created [Bm] on Logic.
But then I [Em] got introduced to Ableton [B] and then I figured [E] out like, oh, OK, I can manipulate audio.
And [G] there's a [A] thousand things that I can do [Gbm] creatively in Ableton.
So I kind of like [G] joined that wave.
[C] Everything [B] ends up in Pro Tools.
So, you know, I [Ebm] kind of do a lot [G] of mixing and Pro Tools as [B] well.
So I go from [D] each DAW.
It depends on my creative flow.
[C] I've worked with Kiki Palmer, [Em] working with Zendaya, _ [Bm] Beyonce, Alicia Keys, a couple of people.
[E] I am particularly focused on an artist that I [C] have.
Her name is Mikaela Jenea.
[D] I'm [Bm] finishing up her EP.
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[Ebm] _ _ _ [Abm] _ _ [F] Bitch Better Have My Money came about, [Ebm] it's crazy.
I [Abm] see it in the clubs go off.
[Bb] But it started [Gb] in the most quiet environment [Abm] in my apartment.
From [F] the beat, I [Gb] had my first [Abm] session with Bibi, who's the writer [Bb] of Bitch Better Have My Money.
We [Bbm] went in to kind of like [Abm] create just a dope record.
It was the last [Bb] track I played and she was [Ab] like, yo, why don't you play this with me?
She went in the booth, [Gb] started freestyling.
[Eb] And the first thing she said was, Bitch Better Have My Money.
[Gm] And while she was in the booth, I'm telling myself, [B] yo, that's the [E] record, right?
That's what the [F] record's about.
We did the record.
By the time we left, we [Eb] were trying to figure out, yo, who could deliver the [D] record and it still be realistic.
[Ebm] And the person we thought about was Rihanna, you know what I'm saying?
Because she's so confident and cocky that she could do it.
It got to Rihanna through a session that [Abm] Bibi had with Kanye and [Bb] Rihanna.
Kanye brought Bibi [Ebm] in the studio to play some stuff [E] for Rih.
Bitch Better [Abm] Have My Money [Bb] was one of the records that [Gb] she played.
[Abm] Kanye heard it, thought it was [Bb] dope.
Rihanna heard [Ebm] it, thought it was dope.
So, [Abm] Bitch Better Have My Money was [Bb] perfect.
So [Eb] now I'm about to get into this Bitch Better Have My Money beat.
I'm here at [Bb] No Hoo Sweets.
Let's do it.
[Abm] So right here I got the Bitch Better Have My Money session.
I'll probably [Ab] say this took me a total of 30-something hours from [G] when I started it, when I thought it was a [F] dope record, until when I finished it.
So I'm about to take y'all through the sounds so y'all can see.
The first sound I started with was the piano.
[Abm] _ _ _ [Ebm] Right?
_ Came [Abm] with this sound. _ _ _
[Ebm] _ You [Eb] have the dab, _ [F] _ [Eb] which is like [Db] the _ meat of [F] the track. _
[Db] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ Keeps it [G] moving, gives it [Db] that grittiness.
_ _ [Eb] And for the [G] drums, kind of like, you know, gave it a weird pattern to [Gb] where I wasn't forced to do something that I would normally do.
And that gave me this.
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[Bb] Added this sound also.
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And because I'm just different and I like to do, you know, different [G] things, I [B] added a weird sound that you probably won't even [G] hear.
But, _ you're [Abm] like, what is this?
_ But, you know, it just felt cool to me.
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_ [Ebm] _ _ _ [Abm] When it [G] was time to do a hi-hat, I just wanted to do something different.
And I didn't want to do the same type of trap, you know, sounding beat.
So, [B] I opted to just do, _ _ _ just give it a different rhythm, a different space in the track.
That [Ebm] came with this. _ _
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_ [Abm] _ I also have this [Ebm] weird sound that you're going to hear on [Em] all my records from now on.
_ [Ab] _ _ _ [Bb] When you hear [Ab] that sound, you know the deputy produced it.
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[Ebm] So, once I did that, [Eb] _ I was trying to figure out, [G] okay, cool, so I have that.
Like, you know, what can I do to [Gb] break up between the verses and the [E] hook? This happened.
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Right, this snare. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ You make it feel big.
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_ _ Added the [Gb] riser. _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ [Bb] _ Now, because I already had the melody of the piano, I knew my 808s had to kind [Ab] of like follow the same melody. _
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[Abm] _ _ _ [B] Again, more weird sounds.
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_ [Bb] _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ [Ab] As you probably won't hear, [Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ it's [Ab] just like ear candy.
Like, you feel it, you don't really hear it.
The [E] outro, now this just happened [Ab] by chance.
I think that came first.
_ [Ebm] _ I played that.
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Played this lead sound.
I'm really big on, like, you [Bb] know, lead sounds and like playing melodies.
So, I was like, alright, [Ab] cool.
This sounds [F] like an end, so, you know, I had to finish it off.
[Bb] Sounding big. _ _
808s. _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] You're not gonna like [N] really hear anybody use a kick like that.
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_ Play with that sound again. _ _ _ _
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Finish it off with this.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Ebm] This was the creative process that brought you Bitch Better Have My Money. _ _
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