Look at Me (XXXTentacion song)
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| Single by XXXTentacion | ||||
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| Recorded | 2015 | |||
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| Label | Empire | |||
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"Look at Me" (stylized as "Look at Me!") is the debut single by American rapper XXXTentacion. The song premiered on December 31, 2015 on the SoundCloud account of Rojas, the song's co-producer, before initially being released for digital download as a single on January 29, 2016, becoming a sleeper hit after its initial release until January 2017, in which the single was later re-released for digital download again with a remastered and clean version of the single on February 20, 2017, by Empire Distribution. The song serves as the lead single from his debut commercial mixtape Revenge (2017). The track was produced by Rojas and Jimmy Duval and heavily samples the song "Changes" by British dubstep DJ and record producer Mala. The song currently has over 71 million plays and counting since its addition on SoundCloud, and 42 million views on YouTube.
In verified annotations added along with song's lyrics on Genius, Rojas, the song's co-producer, spoke about how the song came together:
One day me and X were sitting at the crib going through beats and he wasn't really rocking with any of them, and then the last one I showed him was that beat, and he was like, "Rojas, this is it!" In 15 minutes, it was done. X already knew the whole song in his head before he made it. He's creative as fuck. X decided to distort the whole track in one.
Rojas also spoke about the origin of the beat:
We made it at Jimmy Duval's Studio. The beat was actually made for Retch, when he came down to Miami after he had a show in Tampa. He was staying at Jimmy’s crib after I introduced them, when me and Jimmy decided to work on some stuff for Retch. That’s when we made the "Look At Me!" beat. We never got to send it to Retch because he went to jail and I lost contact with him and his management.
Rojas lastly talked about how they [Jimmy Duval] found the sample:
A couple months before I sampled it, I was listening to a song by Young Roddy called "Water" and I was fucking with him heavy. I thought the sample was really hard and I wanted to use it but i failed with it so many times before I got it right.
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