I was searching for Beethoven or the classical stuff from hundreds of years ago. So I would go on YouTube trying to find really weird stuff to sample. I had just mastered my melody game and I was trying to get more into sampling. I knew how to sample, but I wanted some crazy challenges. How did the beat for “Old Town Road” come together? So I just started putting my beats online to get an American following. In the beginning, I was trying to remake song instrumentals just to learn and understand what they were doing. Hip-hop isn’t really as big in the Netherlands as it is in the USA. When I started the beats were trash, but once I got the hang of it and understood how to make a sound that’s really easy for people to hop on, I thought, “Maybe I can try to make music with artists and just maybe get some money off of it.” Because I heard people were making money selling beats online. So I’m just going to title it ’21 Savage Type Beat.'” I followed that wave. They make a beat, and they’re like, “Hey, sounds like 21 Savage can hop on it. I started going on YouTube, finding some inspiration, these “Type Beats.” That’s how producers market their beats online.
