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How Mike Will Made-It Revolutionized Music with Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus, Future & More | Boardroom Talks

Boardroom Talks

Boardroom Podcast Network

Business, Entrepreneurship, Sports

4.4620 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Boardroom Talks, Rich Kleiman sits down with super producer Mike Will Made-It to explore his groundbreaking career. Mike breaks down how Atlanta's musical legacy influenced modern sound, why genre-blending is key to his success, and the powerful impact of artists like Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus, and Future. Plus, he shares his thoughts on the role of Artificial Intelligence in music, the mystery behind streaming numbers, and how industry icon Jimmy Iovine shaped his approach to making hip hop accessible to the mainstream. Don’t miss this candid conversation with one of the industry's most influential producers!

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0:00.0

We're probably over 400 songs later. Some of the biggest songs for some of our favorite artists. With Humble and DNA to Beyonce, with Formation, to Miley's Artist, We Can't Stop, 23, to Lil Wayne Love Me, to groundwork with Future, turn on the lights, never end, itching, New Bugatti. If you're looking at sway, you know what I'm saying, Post Malone, Sunflower, you're looking at 30 Rock, the box for Roddy Ridge.

0:24.0

When you see that, now it's like, okay, man, the earth is our turban.

0:32.6

What's up, everybody, and welcome to another boardroom talks.

0:36.2

We are live in my office in new york city and today

0:39.0

we are with artists dj producer songwriter CEO and grammy award winner mike williams aka

0:48.4

mike will welcome to the boardroom brother that was a nice intro man you liked it right yeah for real

0:53.8

solid i threw the artist and dj in too, because you got it covered all grounds. Yeah. For sure. I never had, I never been introduced as a DJ, but I just did a DJ set last week for Boileroon. So you write on the money. And I was my first time messing with the CDJs. And it was cool. It was cool vibe.

1:11.7

So see, I knew that. Word up. You're the man. You're the man. You know, everyone knows Atlanta now is a

1:18.0

hotbed, but it's been a hotbed. Right. How much of the era that you grew up on, Outcast, Germain Dupree,

1:24.9

et cetera, also had kind of an influence on starting to like envision

1:29.0

what your future could be.

1:30.5

Yeah, I mean, Atlanta, see, the thing about Atlanta

1:33.3

is like, it's always about like having your own swag

1:36.9

and like everybody just, it's like,

1:38.8

285 is like a highway that goes around the city,

1:42.8

you know what I'm saying?

1:43.6

Anything inside of 285 is like the city, you know what I'm saying, and outside of 285 is like a highway that goes around the city. You know what I'm saying? Anything inside of 205 is like the city. You know what I'm saying? And outside of 285 is like Metro Atlanta.

1:49.0

But like just I look at that like a pot. Like you know what I'm saying? It's like all this talent right

1:55.6

here. Is it still this hotbed of talent where people are carving out their lane and differentiating themselves,

2:01.8

or do you feel like the movement has gotten even stronger and it's starting to almost

2:05.0

hold the flag a bit for hip hop? I for sure feel like Atlanta's the mecca hip hop right now.

2:10.2

And I definitely understand that New York is the original mecca hip hop. It's like where hip hop started, you know what I'm saying?

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