Chords for The Making Of Eminem's "KILLSHOT" With IllaDaProducer | Deconstructed

_ _ _ _ _ Em changed my life, you know what I'm saying?
Like he didn't have to believe in my sound
so much in _ Kamikaze.
_ The fact that he did, I'm [Gm] forever loyal to Em.
So you got a problem with him, you got a problem with me.
I'm like, all right, that's how we gonna rock?
I'm gonna give Em the [D] hardest beats I [Eb] could find.
_ _ Stand, stand, son, listen, man, dad isn't [Eb] mad,
but how you gonna name yourself after a damn gun
and have [Gm] a man bun?
_ _ [Eb] _
[Gm] _ _ _ [D] [A] So when I originally started [Bb] the beat for Killshot,
it was actually for gigs.
[Am] He always asked me for like these horror movie beats.
That's what I was thinking when I made the Killshot beat,
it's just something mean, gritty, grimy.
When I realized it was gonna go to Eminem
was the morning that MGK dropped Rap Devil.
Fuck rap, God, I'm the rap devil.
I'm a bare face with a black shovel like the Armageddon.
When the smoke settle, this body next to this instrumental.
You know, I was in Miami with my girl on vacation
celebrating Kamikaze and I see Eminem, MGK diss.
I'm like, what?
So I clicked on it.
I'm like, damn, that's how it is, Ronnie.
You know what I'm saying?
Right away I went into [N] my folder
and tried to find like the hardest beats possible.
And then I sent him like two beats.
It was like eight o'clock at night.
I'm like, yo, I sent gigs, some crazy shit, hit gigs.
And he told me what beat he used.
He didn't use that one.
So I sent it right away like, yo, here's one more.
_ So when I [Gm] first started Killshot,
the first sound I used was this piano
that I found from a loop pack from Two Dope Boys.
_ _ _ [Gm] It was the chord [D] progression [Gm] that really stood out to me.
[A] It was [Gm] really theatrical, [D] like Phantom of the Opera.
[Gm] I wrote automation on it to make it breathe a little bit.
[D] It gives it like a [Gm] pumping effect.
_ [A] _ [Gm] _ _ [N] _
I usually do a hi-hat after I do the melody,
but this time I wanted a snare.
I knew I wanted something with a lot of pop to it.
I added this plugin, Sausage Fattener.
Makes it really stand out in the mix.
Once I felt good about the snare,
I added a couple of hi-hats.
This is the first hi-hat. _
But it didn't go with the rhythm of the piano.
So I didn't want all that.
I just wanted the tripled effect at the beginning,
just to give it a little bounce.
_ Second hi-hat was a lot more involved. _
_ _ _ _ I picked two of them because the first one is short
and it has a tripled up effect.
Then the second one has like a reversed symbol
after the first tripled up effect.
So it gives the track rhythm. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ I tried like four different kick patterns,
but this is the one I finally decided to go with. _
_ _ _ Once all the drums were there
and the sample was moving like I wanted it to move
and everything was fitting together like a puzzle,
I was like, all right, perfect.
Now I can go and do my favorite thing, the 808.
You know what I'm saying?
That thang. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ It's hitting in between the kicks
and it's actually following some of the rhythm of the sample.
So there's rhythms that somebody like technical
can just jump all over. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Since I didn't use a lot of sounds in this beat,
I used the ranging to build [Gm] the drama
and you know what I mean, build the crescendo of the beat.
I took the sample and then I half-timed it.
This is [A] the sound by itself [Ebm] and this is it [D] with it on.
_ It gave it a dramatic breakdown and he used it perfect.
I added my tag.
Then _ _ I was like, all right, this is perfect.
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_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ I'm definitely [D] somebody I looked up to as a lyricist.
[A] I think pretty much everybody who's [D] a fan of rap
is a fan of [Eb] Eminem in some light
because he's the [D] top [Gm] technical lyricist ever.
You know what I'm [Gb] saying?
And he's on [D] a Mount Rushmore of rap.
Can't take him off [Gm] there.
Great said it, Jay [D]-Z, [Gm] 50, Kendrick, [A] Kanye.
[Gm] Everybody that [D] we look up to has said he's,
you know what I mean, top five.
For me, this has been like,
it's the biggest blessing that I've ever [Db] experienced.
You [Gm] know what I'm saying?
I'm forever [Gb] grateful, forever loyal.
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