TrapMoneyBenny: The world works kind of mysteriously. I have a great team of people I work with and...I don't know, things just line up when they need to. I'm signed to James Fauntleroy [1500 or Nothin'], and James was working with Drake, he's also on the album. He was in Toronto and my manager calls me and he goes, "So, I wanted to keep it a secret, but you got a song with Drake. James is in Toronto working on an album with Drake, and Drake was playing him the album." He [James] played him the song, and was like, "This is crazy, you should use this." So I kind of had an idea then, but I really didn't hear it until it came out. I was kind of excited, but in our line of work, it's like you really don't know if something's gonna come out until it comes out. I was just waiting and being patient, just waiting for the album to drop.

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I did kind of like the "meat and potatoes" of the beat: the melody, and most of the drums. 40 and BlaqNmilD are the other producers on it, and did a hell of a job with it. They really kind of flipped it and went crazy. They did the samples and gave it that super New Orleans bounce feel. But yeah, I did the melody, and the drums. They did all of the cool switch ups and what not [too].

So my real name is Benjamin, and my whole life growing up, all my parents friends, or like in school at the beginning of the year when they ask, "What do you wanna be called?" Obviously I'm not gonna have you call me Benjamin, so I would say Benny, and every time, people would instantly think, Bennie and the Jets. So for me, this is like my modern day Bennie and the Jets almost. I really don't know how to feel, like I've never felt this feeling before, it's just kind of crazy. All my friends have been tagging me in stuff [online], I've been kind of staying up to date and I've been getting to see all the cool dancing videos that are kind of blowing up, it's super tight. [Being on Scorpion] is just unreal, it's crazy.

