Joey Bada$$'s Forthcoming Debut Album 'B4.Da.$$' Details From Pro Era's Chuck Strangers

The producer behind the track that Bada$$ released earlier this week, Chuck Strangers, sat down with HipHopDX to give an interview regarding the forthcoming debut.

Strangers discussed his own involvement with the album and his production duties, admitting that the collaboration pushed him out of his comfort zone at times.

The producer told HipHopDX, "The stuff on Joey's album definitely doesn't sound like sh*t we been doing."

"It sounds different for sure. It's real jungly, it's jungle music. It's real jungle. It's still rap though and it's dark. It's faster, it's double time.," Strangers continued. "To me, I wanted to do-it came from just wanting to do party music. I feel like the music I produced before wasn't really like party. You couldn't really party to it. Or you could, but not like dance and s-. So I always wanted to go to a party and hear my own music and s-. Just being honest with myself, my shit's not for the f-ing party. So I was like, 'Man, we gotta make some s- for the party.' But I was like, 'How the f- do I even do that?' But then I was going to all these places and you hear all these dance beats. I was like, 'Okay, word. This is some different s-.' And also I used to live with this cat Lee Bannon and he's heavy into that kind of stuff."

The track that Strangers outlined as being party-friendly is titled "Escape 120?".

The producer has two additional credits on the album, with "Teach Me and "Black Beetles," and discussed the ways in which the tracks have different vibes.

When asked what he thought of the album, Strangers responded, "I think it's really, really good. I think it's better than a lot of n--s' albums. One thing I'll say about it, to me, it's just not bulls-. To me, at no point am I sitting there listening to it like, 'Oh, this sounds fake,' or 'Who told you to do this?' It's just his vision I'd say. It's a really, really, really, really good album to be honest."

"And, it goes a lot of places that I don't think people see. You don't know what this album sounds like. I think some people think they do but they don't," Strangers concluded at the end of the interview. "He really about to show'em, okay, dag, just as far as-I think he's gonna surprise a lot of people on the production. I think he's gonna surprise a lot of people with the songs he made, the amount of places he took the listeners. I think he really did a good job."

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