Mr. Hanky is a staple in Atlanta. He’s been making hits with Atlanta legends for over 20 years and he’s even produced a few of our favourite membership bangers as nicely. He produced “Twerkulater” by the Metropolis Ladies and produced a few of Soulja Boy’s earliest songs. Even again then, he noticed the imaginative and prescient from a younger Soulja Boy. Mr. Hanky stepped into the Star Studio to speak about his iconic profession, JT, Yung Miami and naturally Soulja Boy.
How was it working with the Metropolis Ladies?
It was dope. Man, shout out to Coach Okay and QC Pee and them. It was a dope expertise. Man, like tremendous, tremendous skilled. They dealt with the enterprise. The A&R, she was dope, and entire expertise was dope. Man, my man got here up with them. He knew them as nicely, and he was like, yo, man, I’m going to Studio with the Metropolis Ladies. I ain’t know them from a can of paint on the time, however you already know, one factor led to a different, and we’re right here.
You made a few of Soulja Boy’s first few songs, do you imagine he’s an icon?
Initially, let’s get it proper. It doesn’t matter what they are saying about Soulja Boy, Soulja Boy is an icon. Okay, he’s an icon. Man, once I was working with Soulja Boy, I used to be recent out of faculty. Like simply having enjoyable and saying loopy stuff on document, simply seeing how he labored the web, seeing how he labored YouTube at the moment, like he actually laid the muse for every thing that we’re doing now, even podcasting, he was doing that again then. So shout out to him, man.
Did Soulja Boy actually do every thing first? Is he the originator of loads of at this time’s strikes?
Yeah. he’s. I didn’t understand how far forward of all people he actually was. He was forward of the sport. You recognize, the older I get and the extra stuff I do, I discover myself saying rattling, that’s one thing. Dre (Soulja Boy) would do some actual Soulja Boy stuff. Like he began the entire posting in actual time factor. I noticed it from him at an early age, man. One in every of his first reveals right here, I believe it was at Heart Stage, and I’ll always remember. Man, quickly as he received completed performing, him, Arab and Jabar, Charlie on the time, and Southern bread, all of them went again and pulled up their laptops. He’s an icon and the unique originator. And it’s humorous once I see individuals be like, did he do it first? He actually did. He actually did, like, full transparency. He’s the one to introduce me and to place Nicki Minaj on my radar.
Travis Porter or Wealthy Kidz?
You recognize I work with each of them. Shout out to Skooly. Shout out to Jose Guapo. However I’ll undoubtedly go together with Travis Porter. Man, we did the “Streets R Us” mixtape. And the loopy factor about that was throughout the entire “All The Means Turned Up” controversy, and it was loopy being there throughout that point simply to see how they persevered. As a result of truthfully, like, Roscoe, shout out to Roscoe, Roscoe could be within the studio with us, and I didn’t even know, like, Roscoe was quiet as a mouse, man, like he was simply the homie that may include them [once in a blue moon]. So when the entire cut up occurred with “All The Means Turned Up” we instantly received within the studio. They instructed them, y’all want some extra music proper now. That’s completely y’all. That’s not confused with anyone else. And we received collectively, man, in like, two days, and did the “Streets R Us” mixtape, throughout BET Hip-Hop Awards weekend in Atlanta, like ’08 or ’09. We did “Name You” with the New Boyz, “Lose My Thoughts,” “Waffle Home,” “I Simply Wish to F***” like I did, like six, seven of the songs off of there. Man, shout out to Travis Porter, Ali, Quez, and Strap, Charlie Methods, the entire avenue execs workforce.