This has been as big a year for iLoveMakonnen as any year has been for anyone, ever (We're sure of it). The dude went from a nobody to a viral star to an OVO artist in the blink of an eye, mostly thanks to his Internet hit "Tuesday." Now, Drake is re-releasing Mak's self-titled EP on Dec. 15.
The 25-year-old recently spoke with Noisey about getting in with Mike Will Made It, the hotshot Miley Cyrus producer who helped out with "Swerve."
"Yeah, I was doing videos online and on YouTube and all of these little sites," Mak said. "This was like 2012. That was the first time I met Mike Will, at the top of 2012. He called me up to the studio in Atlanta at Tree Sound. He was a fan of my music and sees these visions and all this great shit and I was just like wow, what the f---! I don't know this guy, but I just know you from the radio Mike Will Made It. I thought he was some 30-year-old guy at the time that was doing f---ing music all his life, then I f---ing met him and he's 25, my age, and we're both Aries and all this s---. I was like oh, what the f---!"
He also dished on the origins of "I Don't Sell Molly No More," which he claims to be a true story.
"That's actually the truest song I have out right now," Mak said. "It's like me and my friends, we did a little hustling off of the molly and s---. And then a big ass sort of bust, a drug bust happened out here in Clayton County and the molly, they got like tons of it. The police seized it all and s---. I was like f--- it, I don't sell molly anymore. It just kind of turned into a song and I was like oh s---, this is real because it's our real life. They really understood it. Then it turned out to be a really great song."
Check out the iLoveMakonnen EP tracklist (via HotNewHipHop):
01. I Don't Sell Molly No More (produced by Sonny Digital)
02. Doubted feat. Key! (produced by Sonny Digital)
03. Tuesday featuring Drake (produced by ILOVEMAKONNEN, Sonny Digital & Metro Boomin)
04. Rumor (Acoustic Remix) (produced by ILOVEMAKONNEN & Phantom)
05. Swerve (produced by Mike Will Made It)
06. Maneuvering (produced by Metro Boomin)
07. Look At Wrist (Father, Makonnen & Key!)
