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Hip-Hop Wired : How did you end up making “Mine” and  “Partition” for Beyoncé?

Key Wane: I was working with Drake a lot, I was in school and after school I [made] a whole bunch of records. I had made like a full piano set and I sent it to Drake [who] recorded a full reference [song] on it, and he was like “I love where this is gonna go.” A good month-and-a-half after I graduated [from college] he ended up calling me in the middle of the day like “Beyoncé has the track. I think it’s a better situation for both of us.” They took that whole piano interlude and it sounded the exact same when he sent me the references and after the interlude it went into drum tracks that [Noah] “40” [Shebib] did, and some other great people worked on.

“Partition” happened [because] my friend Ricky Anderson was in L.A. I was out in L.A. working with [Big] Sean on Detroit and Hall of Fame, so on a free day I went over to his house. He was telling me he was working on Beyoncé’s album and needed some beats to give to her, so I gave him a folder and out of the folder she took “Partition,” the full record. Timbaland enhanced it some, Timberlake enhanced it some, and turned the record great.

Hip-Hop Wired: How do you feel it’s changed how people see you as a producer?

Key Wane: It’s cool because I try to be a versatile as possible. I try to not just make one certain sound over and over again, I try to hit people over the head with different things. So I’m glad that listeners can hear a different sounds from me every time I put something out so I they don’t get bored. It’s been good though, I’ve been getting a positive response, a lot of people [are] excited, love the records, and they love the visuals to the songs. I like ’em too. It’s been nothing but a positive situation.

Hip-Hop Wired: What inspires you as a producer?

Key Wane: I just really wanna make some of the best sounds out, not just one sound and be like ‘this is my sound.’ You probably won’t be able to point the sound out because I constantly switch it on every song. I like the fact that I can be versatile and give you something different. You hear Jhené  Aiko and that sounds really good and then you hear a Meek Mill record that sounds really good, I just really want to give people a variety.

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