Miami production trio The Track Burnaz are having a dream start to 2017. After landing their first major placement as co-producers on Big Sean’s “Inspire Me” in February, the group popped up again on Future’s HNDRXX standout track “Use Me.” Both plugs came courtesy of Detail, who co-produced on both tracks—along with Sidney Swift—and helped them find their way to Future and Sean respectively.

Genius caught up with Ruben, JB, and Briggs to find out exactly how they managed to finesse their way onto one of the biggest albums of the year:

How did the “Use Me” beat first come together?

JB: Yeah. When we were doing the beat, Ruben was just playing some chords. We were just going for a real summertime vibe.

Ruben: That day, I was just going through chord changes and I found this really cool drum patch on Fruity Loops. I was really digging it, and I felt like it needed something a little more percussive so I added keys to it. I remember thinking, “Man, it sounds nice, but it sounds too much like a ballad.” I wasn’t in love with it. Then I found a cool guitar patch and I started playing the same changes over that with the guitar patch, and that’s when JB jumped right in.

JB: Once we got the guitar, the beat just took off from there. It wasn’t “Use Me” quite yet at the time. We didn’t even know it was for Future but that’s how we started the beat.

So you didn’t make it with Future in mind?

JB: Nah. Even with the 808s, we went with a bass line… we went all the way West Coast. The mindset had just changed from producers to pushing as artists, and we were like, “We gotta influence the culture.” That’s something we’ve always talked about. We were like, “Let’s go heavy 808s. We’re from the South—Miami—this is what we love. Let’s not hold back.” I think that’s what helped the record eventually translate to Detail and Future because of the 808s, it has that real rhythmic, urban feel to it.

When did this all come together?

Ruben: I’d say about June or July of 2016.

When did Future first get involved with it?

JB: This one specifically was with Detail… He was saying, “Send me some stuff, I’m working on something special.” He didn’t really let us know what it was. Again, we didn’t think Future.

Ruben: After we created it, we sent it to Detail to add some production or write to it, whatever he wanted to do. Detail kinda hinted that there were big things in the works but he never said exactly what it was and then it became the Future record.

When did you find out that it would be on HNDRXX?

Ruben: Honestly, we heard like everybody else that he was dropping another project and we were like, “Wow, that’s gonna be crazy.” I think the project [was going to drop] on Friday, and on the Wednesday evening, I think JB got the call that we were on it and it was the record that we did with Detail.

JB: We got the reference copy of it, and it was called something different than “Use Me.” When the track titles came out, I remember Briggs and Ruben were looking over like, “Yeah we didn’t make the cut, I don’t see the record on here that we did with him.” Then five to 10 minutes later, Epic is hitting us up like, “We need this information from you guys. You guys got track five.”

How much did it change from when you first sent the beat to the final version?

JB: It was fairly consistent. I know there was a lot of vocal production done on Detail and Future’s part that we didn’t have.

Ruben: Everything was pretty much the same, we had the crooning vocals in the background. I think Detail added a synth towards the end as well, and he did the “Ah ah ah” in the song, which gives a chorus feel to it which is great. They did some pitch shifting a little bit, but for the most part not much really changed.

Is there one particular moment on the track where you feel like your signature style shines through?

Ruben: For me, I would say the track starts off with no drums in the beginning, so it’s all nice and open. The biggest thing about our production are 808s, and when the beat drops, you feel this urban side of the song that was missing from the first 15 seconds.

Briggs: It’s really important to the song because it brings you into the sound that The Track Burnaz are. That’s what those 808s bring. Without that it was a whole different song.

JB: In the intro, people call it the sizzle, where the beat sounds like it’s slow and pitched down, that gives it this tension type feel. Again, Future and Detail really brought that out in the beat. They set it up, “Use Me,” the “tools,” the whole story of the record. It’s dark but he’s preaching to you. It definitely works with the 808s and Future singing in that register, that’s definitely a staple. Summertime 2016 we did the “Use Me” beat, and then it didn’t come out until February. We were thinking West Coast, maybe like a Lil Dicky type beat, like someone who could spit some bars over it—and then it was Future of all people.

You can read all the lyrics to Future’s “Use Me” on Genius now.