You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.

I'm Rishikesh Herway.

This episode contains explicit language.

Action Bronson is a rapper from Queens, who's been making records since 2011.

He also stars as the host of two TV shows about food on Vice's channel, Vice Land.

His third album, Blue Chip 7000, came out in 2017 and it features this song, The Chairman's Intent.

It was produced by his longtime collaborator, producer Harry Fraud.

I spoke to Action Bronson here in LA and separately to Harry Fraud while he was in his studio in Brooklyn.

In this episode, the two of them tell the story of how the Chairman's Intent was made.

How are you today? This is Action Bronson.

My name is Harry Fraud.

Me and Action first met in 2011.

And I started sending him beads.

And then once he pulled out to my studio, we just kind of bonded.

So the birth of this song was in his studio in Gawannis.

We start really with a blank canvas and you know, just start by listening to different old records and stuff like that.

Me and my guy, Red Walrus, we constantly just start digging for stuff and filing it away for, oh, this sample would be good for action.

So I'm already prepped with an arsenal, so to speak, of things.

His boy Walrus, that works with him, he had put a bunch of samples aside for me.

He came in, he's like, oh, I have some of you.

We came upon this kind of obscure Thai funk song.

And man, freaked me out. Like, this is exactly what I was looking for.

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