Mike Will Made It

Yeah he wrote it and it really just sounds like a future song w rihanna's vocals.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/11/how-mike-will-made-it

I did not know Swae Lee wrote "Formation"

pretty weird timing for a mike will super producer trend story...

The author seems a little out of touch. A lot of the piece reads like it could have been filed in 2013, just after Bangerz came out.

The angle to me feels like it could have been Will's commercial resiliency. Wasn't all that long ago ppl were suggesting Will had been rendered passe by DJ Mustard, but now it's pretty obvious which producer had the longer shelf life.

Also odd that the piece was written for readers who have absolutely no knowledge of rap music about a subject that only readers deeply interested in rap music would ever care about

but he hasn't really shown much commercial resiliency, "formation" aside... rae sremm album got pushed back after the single flopped. mustard prob has the bigger hit ("needed me") this year.

Still, Mike Will is just about the only ATL producer atm who seems to bring the best out of whoever it is he's working with.

what does that even mean

It means that whenever Future or Thug collaborate w MWMI they sound inspired, that all the new Rae Sremms have been great + MFN Right is a banger. The Rihanna song would have been better as a Future song but it's still good, and no, he isn't really charting atm but the spark's still there.

It means that whenever Future or Thug collaborate w MWMI they sound inspired

examples?

rae sremmurd have only ever worked w/ him so i don't see how they count

Rae Sremmurd count because they seem to be developing healthily whereas Future and Thug are sort of threading water atm. He brings out a poppier sound in them whenever they work together and I need more of that.

* them = future & thug

and the best new gucci is over a mw beat