Look at Me (XXXTentacion song)
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"Look at Me" (stylized as Look at Me!) is the debut single by American hip hop recording artist XXXTENTACION. The song premiered on December 31, 2015 on the SoundCloud account of Rojas, the song's co-producer, before being re-released for digital download on the iTunes Store as a single on January 29, 2016.[1][2] The song was self-released and was produced by Rojas and Jimmy Duval. The song heavily samples the song "Changes" by British DJ and record producer Mala.[3] The song currently has over 12 million plays and counting since it's addition on SoundCloud.[1]
Background
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 then, 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.[4]
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.[4]
Rojas lastly talked about how they 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.[4]
Controversy
The song first received notable attention and controversy when Canadian rapper Drake used a similar rap flow from "Look at Me!" in an unreleased song that Drake previewed at a concert in Amsterdam featuring British rapper Giggs. This sparked a viral surge in the song's popularity, as well as XXXTENTACION himself, while currently incarcerated.[5][6]
Charts
| Chart (2017) | Peak position |
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| US Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles (Billboard)[7] | 5 |
References
- ^ a b c "XXXTENTACION - Look At Me! (Prod. ROJAS & Jimmy Duval) by ROJAS | Free Listening on SoundCloud". soundcloud.com. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
- ^ "Look at Me! - Single by Xxxtentacion on Apple Music". itunes.apple.com. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
- ^ "XXXTENTACION's 'Look at Me!' sample of Mala's 'Changes' | WhoSampled". whosampled.com. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
- ^ a b c "XXXTENTACION – Look At Me!".
- ^ "The Internet Thinks Drake Is Biting XXXTENTACION's Flow On His New Track". hotnewhiphop.com. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
- ^ "Did Drake Jack XXXTENTACION On His New 'More Life' Track? - hiphopearly". news.hiphopearly.com. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
- ^ "Xxxtentacion - Chart history". Billboard. Retrieved February 7, 2017.
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