He recently stopped by the Billboard office to chat about one of those songs -- “Red Roses” -- and to reveal how his collaboration with Landon Cube was written and recorded as part of the “How It Went Down” video series.
The 19-year-old musician reveals that the track grew from a beat he was sent by Menoh Beats. “I’ll never forget the day,” he says, explaining that one day he was smoking and fell asleep in the late afternoon, waking up in the middle of the night to an email from the producer.
“It was like a kid, he just sent this one beat,” Skies explains, adding that he didn’t know who Menoh was, but he decided to give it a listen. “It was crazy because I normally write at the studio, but I started writing immediately,” he continues. “As soon as I heard the song, and then basically I stayed up working on the song until my engineer woke up, and then once he woke up, I went right to the studio, recorded the song.”
Lil Skies also discusses working with Landon Cube, sharing that after he heard Cube’s track “Beachtown,” he fell in love with his “raspy…mad smooth” voice. As soon as Skies sent him the beat, Cube drove three hours to meet up with him in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania to record his verse. “Then we spent about two, three weeks getting masters, and mixing all types of shit on that song,” Skies adds. “It turned out to be something crazy, man. Like a work of art, for real. It was a blessing.”
You can hear the full story of how Lil Skies wrote “Red Roses” in the video below.
