00:00It brings something out of me that was in me for a long time.
00:03So I appreciate no fingerprints.
00:05Oh, y'all already got secret handshakes and everything.
00:08No fingerprints.
00:09This is family now.
00:11What's up, everyone? We're Loud Luxury.
00:14Oh, that's it?
00:17You're supposed to say, I'm Bobby Shmurda.
00:19I was like, Andrew Jones.
00:22What's up, everyone? We're Loud Luxury.
00:24And I'm Bobby Shmurda.
00:25And this is Billboard News.
00:31Yo, what's up? It's Tetris with Billboard News,
00:32hanging out with Loud Luxury and Bobby Shmurda.
00:34How you guys doing?
00:35Hello. We're good. We're a little tired.
00:36Loud Luxury.
00:37I mean, you just came back from Vegas, from what I heard.
00:38But that's the life, right?
00:39I am, baby.
00:40Well, and you got here.
00:41So you're doing good.
00:42You're doing good so far.
00:43You guys got a brand new song, Cool Like That.
00:45Tell me about this mashup.
00:46How did you guys link up?
00:47Start, Bobby.
00:48Y'all want me to start?
00:49Yeah.
00:50You gotta start it.
00:51You kind of initiated it.
00:52Yeah, so I kind of initiated it.
00:53Basically, I love ETM music.
00:55I did a video to Body.
00:57Yeah, that's one of my favorite songs.
00:58You know, Body.
01:03And then I posted it.
01:04And then they hit me up.
01:05They reposted it.
01:06And I said, yo, we should do a song.
01:08We linked up.
01:09We went to the studio.
01:10And it happened like that.
01:11We was in L.A.
01:12And they had this fucking little dog running around.
01:14It was like a little vicious dog.
01:15You should have seen this.
01:16What's the dog's name?
01:17It was a pit bull.
01:18It was a little pit bull.
01:19It was a little pit bull, bro.
01:22He was scared of my little Pomeranian.
01:24It's a Pomeranian?
01:25Yeah, it was a Pomeranian.
01:26I was like, come on, Bobby.
01:27It was her.
01:28I was like, oh, shit.
01:29It was going to catch my ankles.
01:31I didn't know if it actually had socks on.
01:33I'm going to have to wear long socks.
01:34I'm going to have to wear long socks.
01:35Well, I got to ask.
01:36When artists link up like that through the DMs,
01:38is that something that apparently happens all the time now?
01:40How fast is it from somebody shooting you a message
01:42to being able to pull off a session?
01:43This one was insanely fast.
01:44Just because, you know, in the DJ side of things,
01:47we travel so much.
01:48We had an opportunity where it was literally like, yo,
01:50let's get in the studio this week.
01:51And we were like, OK, let's make this happen.
01:53And it was a huge priority for us.
01:54Because we've been a fan of Bobby's for years.
01:56Very long time.
01:57When we were in college, we would always play his music
01:59at clubs, whatever.
02:00But we had no expectations either.
02:02Exactly.
02:03It was just like one of those things where we pulled up
02:05just thinking, like, yeah, we'll just have fun.
02:07We were messing around with some beats that we had.
02:09And then one of them just really stuck.
02:11And Bobby was freestyling over it.
02:12And we were just like, keep going with this.
02:19Tell me, like, when you're in the studio like that
02:21and you're coming from two different backgrounds,
02:23two different genres, like, what are some of the loud
02:25luxury things you think you brought to the table?
02:27And Bobby, what did you bring to the table?
02:28They brought no smoking.
02:31I said, I can't smoke in the studio.
02:33They said, no, Bobby, you got to go outside.
02:35No smoking zone.
02:36But besides that, they brought something out of me
02:39that was in me for a long time.
02:41And I got to thank them for that, you know?
02:43They brought something out of me that was in me
02:45for a long time.
02:46So I appreciate no fingerprints.
02:49Oh, y'all already got secret handshakes and everything.
02:51Yeah, yeah.
02:52This is family now.
02:53Yeah.
02:54Let's talk about your story a little bit.
02:55You said you learned a lot about EDM from being locked up.
02:58Oh, actually, I used to play pop in the trap.
03:02And I started playing pop from, well, you know,
03:05I grew up on Michael Jackson.
03:06But besides that, Crystal Waters.
03:08You know the song Crystal Waters?
03:09La-da-dee, la-da-dee, la-da-dee.
03:15We used to remix everything we hear.
03:17And we had this song called La-da Beans and La-da Loud.
03:20And I'd just be singing La-da Beans, La-da Loud.
03:23La-da Beans, La-da Loud.
03:25And I wake up early in the morning
03:28just to get the pack on.
03:30Cause I'm trappin'.
03:32You know?
03:33And after that, I'd just be remixing all the pop songs
03:36and stuff like that.
03:37So I was just like.
03:38Hence why we had to make a house song together.
03:40We had to make it happen.
03:42And I mean, do you ever think about like,
03:44I know that's been a big debate in the dance community,
03:46like the different genres within EDM.
03:48So is that something that when you guys were in the studio,
03:50you're like, oh, we want to make a more house track,
03:52more techno track, more, you know.
03:53It's just one of those things.
03:54We had like a bunch of demos lying around.
03:56And then it was the one that felt the best,
03:59I think, in the moment.
04:00But that's why we love doing electronic music.
04:02Because we can work with so many different people.
04:05Like we've worked with country artists.
04:06We've worked with pretty much like anybody you can think of.
04:14That's what's really appealing.
04:15That's what's really appealing.
04:16Because there's not really like one lane that we have to focus on.
04:20I think that's the special thing about y'all.
04:22Like y'all can touch all type of artists
04:24and, you know, make a hit song out of it.
04:27Like, that's some real special shit.
04:29Yeah, I think that answers your question
04:30about like what the loud luxury thing
04:31that we brought to the table was.
04:32It wasn't more of a sound.
04:34It was more of an essence.
04:35And how we work with people, no matter who it is.
04:38Rappers, singers, whatever.
04:39It's like, you do what you do best.
04:41And we'll find a way to make it work.
04:44We just had a house track that he was freestyling over.
04:46And then we just took one part of the freestyle
04:48and just turned it into a whole song.
04:52How do you feel as a guy from hip-hop jumping into the genre?
04:55You know, just like Beyonce just jumped into house with Renaissance
04:58and kind of having like black people be like,
05:00we like this stuff too.
05:01I came in with the alphas, you know?
05:02So I feel like I stepped right.
05:04I came in with the correct people.
05:05I came in with geniuses.
05:06They know what they're doing.
05:07So it's like everything worked perfectly.
05:09And tell me a little bit about the protocol
05:11that you went through, actually, while in jail.
05:13Because I didn't, I don't think I even realized
05:15that they could tell you, like,
05:16you can't listen to explicit music.
05:18Did they tell you what?
05:19How did they do that?
05:20No, they put you up in the country.
05:21So the radio stations you get is different.
05:23You know, you're hearing Taylor Swift all day.
05:25You hear Katy Perry.
05:26I be up in that motherfucker singing like a motherfucker.
05:28I like that.
05:29They call me Happy Feet in jail.
05:30They wait.
05:31Yo, we be all locked down like 24 hours.
05:33They say, oh, you here all day.
05:35I mean, that motherfucker dancing, right?
05:37Ah!
05:38Can't stop me.
05:39Can't stop.
05:40Can't stop me.
05:42Get it?
05:43It can't stop me.
05:44It can't stop me.
05:45Oh, my God.
05:46So who are some of the artists that you end up hearing
05:48on the radio that you were like, wait a minute,
05:50I would have never listened to this,
05:51but now I'm, like, locked in?
05:52I can just tell you the songs.
05:54You know, like, Body's definitely one.
05:56G6, you know.
05:58Now I'm feeling so fly like a G6.
06:01Listen to, um,
06:03Look at what you done.
06:05Calvin Harris.
06:06Calvin Harris.
06:07Ah!
06:08Don't put that on.
06:09Don't put that motherfucker on next to me.
06:11Look at what you've done.
06:15But you also said, I feel that, like,
06:17maybe it's kind of changed your outlook on life
06:19and a little positivity that you've added.
06:21Definitely, definitely.
06:22You know, I feel like I always love music.
06:24I'm, like, I'm a music head.
06:26I can listen to anything.
06:27I'm, like, a rhythm head.
06:28Once I got a rhythm with it, I'm there.
06:30As long as I can move it.
06:31I listen to even Spanish music.
06:32I don't know what the hell they be saying,
06:34but once that shit, oh, yo, yo.
06:36Oh, boy.
06:41Oh, dude.
06:42I need to actually attract him in every genre now.
06:45Well, that's the crazy thing is that you're telling us
06:47you're cooking up in so many different genres.
06:49Like, I've never seen someone so open-minded
06:51about I'm going to do this, this, this.
06:53I'm going to make it all work.
06:54So, um, I'm definitely cooking up
06:56an international mixtape right now.
06:58I got Greek artists on it.
07:00I got Spanish artists.
07:01I got, um, African artists.
07:03I got London artists, you know,
07:05and I'm hoping to get these guys on it, too.
07:07Hey.
07:08And tell me about taking the song to the stage.
07:11I heard you guys might be at Lollapalooza.
07:22We had to get him on.
07:23It's the perfect way to do it.
07:24It's my birthday weekend.
07:25It's going to be a crazy weekend.
07:27We got Bobby.
07:28My birthday weekend, too.
07:29We got Bobby in the cut.
07:30We got Bobby in the cut.
07:31It's going to go up.
07:32We got Bobby in the cut.
07:33It's going to be crazy.
07:34What do you want the people at Lollapalooza to think
07:36after they see this song premiered on the stage?
07:38I mean, this is going to be, like,
07:39really the first time we're playing this,
07:41so there's going to be a lot of energy.
07:42We've played Lollapalooza Chicago once before,
07:45and we're going to do, like, a whole new set.
07:48It's going to be a whole thing.
07:49And we're super excited,
07:50because this is, like, normally in music,
07:52things don't come together so quickly,
07:54and this came together, like,
07:56literally one of the fastest songs we've ever done,
07:58just from, like, the studio getting together
08:00and then being like, okay, this is the next song
08:02we're releasing.
08:03Nice, man.
08:04Well, it's a good song.
08:05I'm not going to lie.
08:06And then what do you feel about hip-hop in general right now,
08:08like, the sounds and everything
08:10that everybody's experimenting with?
08:11I listen to, like, Sexy Driller.
08:12Besides that, I probably listen to a little 21 Savage.
08:16I like different music.
08:17I can't listen to, like, the same sound over and over,
08:20so it's, like, even a lot of luxury.
08:21You get different sounds, you know?
08:23So I like different sounds so I can move.
08:25I don't want to keep doing the same move for 24 hours.
08:28Ha, ha, ha.
08:29Then I want to cha-cha.
08:30Then I want to, you know,
08:31I want to mix it up, you know?
08:33That's how I'm going to go into my life now.
08:34I want to ha-ha, then I want to cha-cha.
08:36You know, you want to mix it up.
08:37That's it, Bobby.
08:38Keep me excited.
08:39Keep me excited, you know what I mean?
08:40That's the ha-ha time.
08:41Yeah, keep me excited.
08:42Gotta get to the cha-cha.
08:43You know what I mean?
08:44Come on, man.
08:45And now that people are stepping into the new Bobby,
08:48what do you want them to learn?
08:49I want them to learn about me, you know?
08:51I want them to learn about me
08:52besides, you know, the 2014, 19-year-old, 20-year-old
08:56that was, you know, about to be 30.
08:58So I want them to see the growth,
09:00the who I really am, you know?
09:02And find the love.
09:03I got a lot of love to give right now, you know?
09:05I've been locked up a long time.
09:06I want to give a lot of love.
09:07You know, I said I don't want to see all the violence and shit.
09:10Everybody can see I've been, you know, since I've been home.
09:13I just been giving love,
09:14so I just want to see love right now.
09:15Hey, man.
09:16We like to spread all the love here at Billboard, too, man.
09:17We're so happy to have you guys,
09:18and I'm excited for this so much.
09:20Of course.
