Chords for The Making Of Drake's "Passionfruit" With Nana Rogues | Deconstructed

_ _ _ _ _ The vibe is weird.
_ _ [Db] _ Every time I explain to people, [Ebm] people look at me funny.
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_ So [E] basically, when I made the beat, I was thinking of clouds.
_ _ _ _ [Db] Like clouds in a jungle filled full of love.
_ [Ebm] But not love from a girl, love from life and appreciation and just [Gb] a nice, fluffy, [E] bouncy.
_ _ _ _ You hear it.
If you hear the beat, you're going to hear it again and be like, okay, he's not a madman. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Dbm] I've heard all the things you [Db] say.
_ Passing up on my [Ebm] old ways.
I can't blame you now.
[B] _ _ _ _ [Ab] I first got [E] into producing [Gb] in secondary school, which is high school.
When I was like 13, 14, we would do music technology classes, music classes.
And I would just be in there as a hobby, just making beats.
I didn't know I wanted to do music there and then or be a producer there and [F] then, but I knew I wanted to do music, I should say.
I _ _ was very fortunate, [Em] actually.
My mum's musical palette was crazy.
She listened to Bob Marley, [Eb] Kenny Rogers, [Em] Carpenters, African Ghani, Daddy Lomba.
Then you get Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonders, [F] all of those in the house every Sunday morning.
It just comes out in the music.
So I really have to thank her, to be honest.
[Dm] She's the plug. _ _ _
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[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ When I was making the beat, it was just a vibe. _
To be fair, [Ebm] when I was making the beat, I did think of Drake, but it was like, it's one of those ones when you're a producer, you make the beat, you [E] think, oh, who am I going to get on it?
He was one of the guys, but I didn't make it for him.
_ _ After the Brit [Db] Awards show last year, Drake came to the Section Boys show in Shoreditch, [Ebm] and that's where it started.
So I was introduced to Drake.
I sent music to Drake, but I didn't know it was passing [Abm] through until close to the release date.
So [Gb] it's crazy because I had no idea.
And then, [E] bam, it just comes.
Hold on, hold on, fuck that.
_ [Db] _
Fuck that shit.
So [E] the intro on Passion Fruit had nothing to do with me.
That's all Drake's and his people's genius.
All the Zoey Cravick stuff, the Moody Man, they're geniuses, so whatever they add to a song is going to work.
_ So for Passion Fruit, I started with the keys.
I don't necessarily always start with the keys.
It changes depending on how I feel.
But on this one, I started with the keys.
I played it.
This _ _ _ is [Db] an NNXT in Reason.
_ _ I [Ebm] like these keys because they're not the conventional electric keys, but they sound [Gb] really smooth. _ _
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_ When I laid down the keys, I was thinking it needs more movement. _ _
[Db] So I added a house bassline. _ _ _ _
_ _ [Db] Nice little pattern here. _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ It's like an obvious house sound that a lot [Abm] of house legends have used.
I layered it as well with a high [B] one.
So I had [G] all of these elements in the song and [Ab] I was thinking it's missing [Abm] something.
_ _ _ This is a pad I actually made myself.
_ _ [B] _ _ [Gb] _ _
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
Everything added together.
[Db] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ So it just sounds nice.
It's got body now.
[Gb] _ It's kind of big [E] now. _
_ I added some hi-hats.
_ [N] _ _
Pretty simple groove.
There's a shaker in there as well.
I like to use these disco hi-hats when I'm making funky dance songs because it gives it more of a live feeling.
Nice soft 8's kick. _ _ _
_ And I thought the drums needed some movement.
So I added the little percussion. _ _ _ _ _
Then I added the snares and all the other drums as well.
A _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ lot _ of disco music, a lot of funk music also have, always have the claps and the little snare fills in every 8 or 4 bars.
I thought I'd add some myself. _
I added this vocal chop.
_ Pretty simple.
There's a breakdown in the track where I added a moody piano.
[E] _
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_ I thought the piano was very moody.
It [Ab] needs a nicer sound to it.
And [E] then I came with the iconic [Gb] flute.
_ This flute is an NNXT flute.
I added [Eb] a distortion on there and [Abm] also a reverb on [Gb] there.
And as you can see in the key roll, I pitch-bended [Db] some of the notes.
_ _ _ [E] All together it sounds like this.
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_ _ _ With everything playing [Ebm] together it also adds to the whole jungle, clouds thing I was talking [Bb] about.
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_ _ [E] _ _ _ That's basically like, apart from arranging, that's basically the basis of the track.
I'll play you what I was going to add in there.
You guys are the first people to hear this version actually. _ _
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[Dbm] When I finished this beat, I knew this was a good beat because [Eb] I have a thing where I would listen to beats over and over again when I really like it.
This was one of [Abm] them.
So I knew it would be a big beat, I just didn't [E] know how big or who would use it.
And then by the grace of God, it became what it became.
_ _ I'm a passive [Dbm] with the things you say. _ _
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