Zaytoven Says that ‘Beast Mode 2’ Started with 100 Songs

Imagine recording over 100 songs and narrowing your choices down to nine records for a full album. Obviously, you’re going to get the best of the best at that point. Well, this is exactly what Future and Zaytoven have done with surprise effort Beast Mode 2, which dropped last night.

As Zay tells The FADER, the two have been recording for two years and carefully picked the right amount of tracks to feature on the sequel, even though they both know the kind of sound they want on there.

The producer said that recent collaborations on Superfly and Trapholizayinspired the new album, because they had too much fire on deck.

Man, you wouldn’t even believe. If you knew how many songs we did just to get the nine songs we got on this one. So many songs. Even for the first project, there were so many songs that were left over. That’s how we like to work — we wanna make sure that we’re giving the fans the best out of the best.

I’d say about 100 songs. That’s just in the vault. It’s really about finding a combination of songs that work together ‘cause, really, all the songs are dope. But all of ‘em don’t work together as a collective project. It’s really just narrowing it down like, OK, this has to go on it, this songs fits with this.

We recorded 100 songs just to give you nine. So that means we took our time to pick out what we feel like the audience would want. We could’ve put 20 songs on there and it’d seem like we guessing. Like we don’t know which songs are the good ones so we just ‘em all on there and let the fans pick. That’s how I look at it when there’s just so many songs. Now, you’re just giving me too much music. I’m the type of guy where, if I see like 20 songs, I don’t even wanna listen to one of ‘em ‘cause it’s too much.

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