In the Studio with The Stereotypes

In the Studio with The Stereotypes
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Hey, what's going on? This is John Street.
This is Rayro.
I'm J Beats.
And we're the stereotypes. We're going to give you a little uh insight on what we do on the daily. So, here we go. Come on. Here, we have, you know, just a couch and uh uh we have a TV and Xbox and all the good stuff that, you know, us guys need when we, you know, we're taking time off and relaxing and whatever. This is actually our first plaque that we've ever received, so we're very excited about it. Uh it's for uh Danny Kane's, welcome to the Dollhouse, going platinum. Being the number one uh album in the country. We got our vocal booth. We started this thing where we get like Polaroid pictures of everybody who's in the booth. So you got everybody from Cassie to Bruno Mars, to music, Saul Child, Neo. That's Kobe. That's our monkey. Our mascot. We have everyone take pictures with with him. You're looking at the uh our mixing board right here and uh this is kind of where we control everything. We use this microphone and keyboard for uh Girls on the dance floor, for Far East Movement. So you hear the stereotypes. That's that.
Right here today. Yeah yeah. Today in the room. Yeah. Yeah. Now, we all did a cheers because we're very excited about like a G6 and your artist Far East Movement being number one right now on iTunes. That's pretty dope, right?
Amazing. That's that's the most amazing thing right now.
You guys didn't work on that talk, but you did work on Girls on the dance floor. And I saw a YouTube video of what you guys did in the studio. And you're just like just like I saw today, just effing around, having fun. Bruno Mars was in there. It was just like casual. Is that what your your creative process is usually like, you know, just like this? You know?
60% of the time, it's like that every time. It could be we could work on we could work on tracks and two, like four of them would just not be it. Right. But once we get to that one, it's we all know it's it. So
Now, obviously, you guys had instant chemistry because within a year, you guys were all nominated for a Grammy for one of your tracks with Neo. So that's pretty dope. What was that like when you first heard that you were nominated? I guess you don't really know when you're like starting to produce like when you're going to be nominated for a Grammy. Like sometimes you think like, oh, it's going to take years to get a Grammy or whatever.
I mean, we still haven't got a Grammy, but we got the nominations. Right. And uh I don't know. I feel like we it's in the near future.
Today, you have Jojo in the studio. So you guys started out with her and she came in telling you she's not really sure what kind of what kind of track she wants if it's like an R&B, a pop. So, where do you go from there?
I think we just try to do what we what we do best. Just whatever comes to mind. I mean, we'll just keep creating until we find something we're all going, oh. We all feel it, you know what I mean? So.
Now, I know you guys already had tracks that were made before, but you start out with a beat and then you just layer everything up, right? So, tell me more about how like how that works with today.
You know, if half the room is like, or even if, you know, Ray's like, then we'll just go, all right, cool. Then we'll just stop it and start fresh. So you all have to be on the same page, no matter what. Sometimes it'll just um it'll work for somebody else, but it won't work for that person that we're working for on that time. We know when us three our energy is it, then we usually kind of know. We don't really care about what anybody else thinks in the room.
Now, you guys also work with other artists uh like Usher and Bieber with Somebody to Love, which is one of my favorite tracks right now. How did that process come together with both of them?
Actually, it was a crazy story. As we were creating the song, um Perez Hilton happened to be in our studio. And he was like, man, I love this song. And we told him, yeah, we create we're doing this for Usher. You know, we sent it off to Usher and you know, he cut the song. Somehow, you know, Perez sent it to Bieber's people and they were like, we love the song. So he cut it on Bieber, came out, rest his history, Usher got on the remix and that's it. Yeah.
That's a dope track. As far as like the way that music is changing today. I mean, you have electro pop, you have uh R&B, hip-hop, people are all collaborating together. Where do you see it going, you know, in the next next year or two? Do you see it staying like on this whole dance kick?
I don't think it's going to go away because it's an international game now. It's no longer US. And everyone else in the world is dance. We are the last people to hop on the dance thing.
Hey, uh what's up? This is John Street.
Rayro.
Trun Beats.
And we're the stereotypes and you are tuned into Young Hollywood.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- John Street
Member of The Stereotypes
- Rayro
Member of The Stereotypes
- J Beats
Member of The Stereotypes
- Danny Kane
Artist for whom The Stereotypes produced a platinum album
- Cassie
Artist whose photo is on the studio wall
- Bruno Mars
Artist whose photo is on the studio wall and collaborator
- Musiq Soulchild
Artist whose photo is on the studio wall
- Ne-Yo
Artist who received a Grammy nomination with The Stereotypes
- Far East Movement
Artist for whom The Stereotypes produced 'Girls on the Dance Floor' and 'Like a G6'
- Jojo
Artist working with The Stereotypes in the studio
- Usher
Artist who cut 'Somebody to Love' produced by The Stereotypes
- Justin Bieber
Artist who cut 'Somebody to Love' and appears on the remix
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