![]() So, to be fair, I can't remember specifically, remember how that went, but I do remember that when I did record it, everybody liked it, but I just didn't end up releasing it. “This track was produced by H1K at the end of 2019. I wanted it to build up to lead into the second song.” We switched up the beat a couple of times-at first, the intro is slower, the second beat's a bit more jumpy, then by the third beat, it gets even crazier. So I went in and wrote it there and then. I had most of the songs for the tape, but everybody was saying I needed an intro. “This was produced by Jevon and Honeywoodsix. Here he walks us through his debut mixtape, track by track. “The beats have that drill influence, but my flow and my content? Not at all.” The influence of drill does ring through this tape-thanks in part to the influence of producers including Bkay, Ghosty, Honeywoodsix and Jevon-but just like the garage-owing “B1llionz” and the dancehall-soaked “Y PREE”, there’s so much more to M1llionz’s Provisional License than 808s and hi-hats. Does he feel part of the drill scene? “I don't think so at all,” he says. Everything from his flow to the beat selections to the way he carries himself seems unique. It’s tempting to wonder whether that confidence stems from being so vividly different from his UK rap contemporaries. ![]() This, it has to be mentioned, was three months after he delivered one of the most swaggering, self-assured freestyles for Kenny Allstar’s Voice of the Streets series. He confesses that it wasn’t until April 2020’s “Y PREE” (his fifth solo single and sixth overall) that he felt confident enough to pursue music as anything more than a hobby. ![]() ![]() You're seeing all these people that know your songs and everybody's been indoors for like two years listening and taking note of what's going on.”Įven in the booth, he had to learn quickly. “People tell you, but you need to experience it for yourself. “Coming through in the last few years means you don't know what to expect,” M1llionz tells Apple Music. To build up over a year’s worth of thriving material and never perform live is a bizarre turn of events, but fortunately, for M1llionz, it’s been the making of him. Born Miguel Rahiece Cunningham, the rapper’s early career almost entirely spanned a pandemic.
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