French Montana - Famous [Prod by Rico Love, DTownThaGreat & Danja]

New @FrencHMonTanA produced by @IamRicoLove Additional grace by myself 🔥🔥🔥#famous #JungleRules pic.twitter.com/jrnDuWh26N

— DANJA (@only1DANJA) July 14, 2017

A Danjarous World | Episode 4 | "WE LOVE MUSIC"

New Music: Rico Love - Trifling/Ride [Full Credits/Spotify Stream]

Last week we received Days Go By from Rico Love's debut album TTLO (Turn The Lights Off). Well today with the release of his album, we received two more Rico Love and Danja productions called Trifling and Ride.

My favourite from the two would have to be Ride, nice Turn Up track! 

Preview these tracks below and enjoy!!

Don't forget to purchase the album here. 

Rico Love - Trifling [Rico Love, Floyd Nathaniel Hills, Marcella Araica, Thurston McCrea]
(Prod by Danja and Rico Love)

Rico Love - Ride [Rico Love, Floyd Nathaniel Hills, Marcella Araica, Thurston McCrea]
(Prod by Danja)


Bonus

Rico Love - Days Go By [Rico Love, Floyd Nathaniel Hills, Marcella Araica, Thurston McCrea]

(Prod by Danja and Rico Love)

New Music: Rico Love - Days Go By

Gone for a while but we are back with a new production from Mr Nathaniel Hills aka Danja, this time he links up with longtime songwriter and singer collaborator, Rico Love with the pre-order track off his new album TTLO called Days Go By. Check it out below.

Rico Love - Days Go By
[Rico Love, Floyd Nathaniel Hills, Marcella Araica & Thurston McCrea]

 

Video Premiere: Fat Joe Ft. Jennifer Lopez - Stressin (Prod by Danja)

Do they look like they're Stressin? Fat Joe and JLo don't think so, don't stress the video premiere is also finally here. Check it out below.

New Music: Rico Love Ft. Big K.R.I.T. - Spend It (Prod by Danja & Rico Love)

New music from long time collaborator Rico Love, who hooks up Big K.R.I.T. on the Danja produced "Spend It" a track reminiscent of the classic Ginuwine banger Pony. Check out the rest of the I Sin as well below and enjoy!!

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Fat Joe Ft. Jennifer Lopez - Stressin’ (Prod by Danja)

Image Credit: Billboard

The drought is over. Finally a new Danja production comes our way in terms of a new Fat Joe single which premiere recently on the radio. The track titled Stressin' features vocals from Jennifer Lopez and co-production and songwriting credits from Rico Love with horn and drum influenced beat similar to that of the Kid Ink's Movement track. Check out the tagged version of the track below. Will update with better quality and no DJ once it becomes available.

UPDATED WITH CDQ/NO Dj

Video Premiere: Rico Love - Bitches Be Like

Here it is Rico Love's new video for his latest single Bitches Be Like. The track is produced by Danja. Check it out below enjoy!!!
 

New Music: Rico Love - Bitches Be Like

The new music keeps rolling in this year with another R&B banger for the Danja produced Bitches Be Like by Rico Love. Check out the single below!
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T-Pain ft Tay Dizm - I'm F*cking Done (Prod by Danja)

Remember yesterday's highly anticipated throwback track? After having been passed up by Brandy, Rico Love, and 2 Chainz, it's found a new home with a couple of Nappy Boys. This, despite Danja saying in the video that "the time has passed for this particular piece of music."

That's right: T-Pain has hopped on the track, and here's the music video for your viewing pleasure:

DANJA - Throwback Track Thursday for Brandy/2 Chainz/Rico Love

First off Happy New Years everyone, this year looks like a great year for Danja's team NARS Records and its fellow artists. Today comes the first of possibly many Throwback Track Thursdays. This one was intended for Brandy's previous album, though 2 Chainz had a look into it as well courtesy of Rico Love. Watch the video below to get all the latest scoop. Enjoy!!!

Kelly Rowland - Freak vs. Jamie Foxx (Prod by Danja, Written by Rico Love)

With only a week until the release of Kelly Rowland's new album Talk a Good Game, the Danja produced track Freak written by Rico Love has surfaced on the web. You may find this track sounds familiar and you will be correct as another track by the duo was shipped to Jamie Foxx who placed his version back in 2010 on his album Best Night of My Life. Listen to both version below.

Also as a side note look out for four penned tracks by Kevin Cossom, these are Down on Love, I Remember, Red Wine and the title track Talk a Good Game that features vocals from Kevin.

So now the big question is who did it better? Leave your thoughts in the comments section!

ENJOY!!!

Kelly Rowland - Freak [Nathaniel Hills, Rico Love, Marcella Araica]



Jamie Foxx - Freak [Nathaniel Hills, Rico Love, Marcella Araica]

Mary J Blige ft Busta Rhymes - Next Level (Prod by Danja, Written by Rico Love)

Danja actually managed to score two tracks on Mary J Bliges new album My Life II... The Journey Continues (Act 1.) and here is the other track called Next Level featuring Busta Rhymes. This is probably that funky track Danja was referring to in this interview for Rap-Up a while ago. Check out the track below.
Purchase on Itunes here.

Mary J Blige Ft. Busta Rhymes - Next Level
[Prod by Danja, Written By Rico Love, Mary J Blige, Busta Rhymes & Nate Hills]


Here are the official credits too for both tracks that feature on the album.

Rico Love - So Many Girls (Usher Demo)

Check out Rico Loves demo version for Usher's So Many Girls track. Always good comparing the demo version to the final mix as it shows what a good engineer can do to your track, Shoutout to  Ms Lago! What ya think of the raw demo, leave your comments below!

[audio http://danjahandz.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/rico-love-so-many-girls-usher-demo.mp3]

True Studio Stories: Danja Recalls Recordings With Justin Timberlake, Diddy, Rick Ross, Usher & More

Recently VIBE did an article on Danja where he talks about the life and stories of a producer inside the studio with major label artists, check out this article as it is a great insight into what really happened on the tracks given in this article. One of the standout stories for me would be Rick Ross's No 1 and you will see why! Enjoy.

Here are the quotes from the article:

Danja is one of those sonic beasts you often hear, but seldom see. Though the 29-year-old super producer may not be as visual a talent as some of his peers, his usual batch of feverish electro-zapped soundscapes are no less than awesome. From his work as Timbaland's one man right hand band on Justin Timberlake's outstanding sophomore effort Future Sex/Love Sounds to Diddy's brightest beats and Nelly Furtado's indestructible comeback single, Danja's name suits him well. Here, he shares the tales behind some of his greatest tracks. —Tracy Garraud

"WHAT GOES AROUND... COMES AROUND"/ "MY LOVE" - JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE

"We didn’t discuss any concepts with Future Sex/Love Sounds, everything just came out. 'What Goes Around' was the very first song we did for the start of that album. I like to have the studio for a little bit before anyone, so I got in there before Timb and when he came I just started playing that core sound with the guitar. Then he came right in with the drums. And Justin just started walking around the room humming melodies. The track took a couple hours and the song took two days.

'My Love' came after "What Goes Around." Timb did a track before where I was just stuck questioning why am I even doing this. I think I was stuck for one day or two. Funny because that song he did didn’t even make the album even though Justin did a song to it… 'My Love' changed the whole album. I had some songs I was experimenting with and I kept asking how can I flip this. Justin had this guy named J Anderson and he heard what I was doing in my headphones and was like ‘What the fuck is that?!’ I heard dance and techn and was always interested in it but didn’t really know where to go. But I went to a club one night and saw that people were losing their mind to these dance tracks. It wasn’t really that I wanted to mimic that sound. I just wanted to have that energy and have people going crazy. So I knew the fusion was putting R&B with trance. As soon as I put the boom boom kat, I knew it.

A lot of [that track] is definitely me and Timb came through and added a couple of things later, he beatboxed on it of course and add a couple little sounds. The basis of it was is me and then we collaborated on the finish of it. The energy from that song carried for a long time. That whole album brought a newness to the business.

"SEXY BACK" - JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE

"'My Love" was the track that definitely carried the energy for the rest of the album. After that we did 'Sexy Back', 'Summer Love', 'The End Of Time,' 'Sexy Ladies'… all within an hour the next day. We was feeling good [laughs]

I still don’t understand the title of 'Sexy Back', but it worked [laughs]. Everyone from Access Hollywood to MTV was saying he’s bringing sexy back, but we didn’t think that deep about it. There was no conversation about it. I'm bringing sexy back was the first thing out of Justin's mouth when he was listening to that track. It was an unorthodox chorus and just took off. It’s incredible watching Justin work because he’s like a rapper freestyling. I had no idea that he wrote that well. If I could go back into the studio and find one shred of paper with one lyric from that album, I’d sell it on Ebay for $2 million. But I’m never going to find that piece of paper. He wrote these songs all in his head. That’s rare. It was incredible."

"No. 1" - Rick Ross

"That record… oh man, it was one of those DJ Khaled 11^th hour ‘I need this in the next 30 minutes!’ plays. The track first of all is way crazier than what's on the album. It was not mixed out, they took out some of my sounds, they completely fucked up my track. I usually get my engineer to mix my records, but she wasn’t available and it needed to be turned in that night. My artist, Kevin Cossom did a chorus on that track that’s way doper than the chorus they have now.

It was the same concept, but what made it hard was that Khaled kept blowing us up to get it done [laughs]. On KC’s mixtape we’re putting the original version. Like I said it was a last minute , but Ross still did his thing. I’m a big fan of his, always wanted to work with him, but on his next I definitely want to get in the studio and vibe. I know that I can give him everything that they attempted doing on a lot of different albums. But I feel like this particular one is an L on my record. I can’t even stomach listening to it. It’s not even what it’s supposed to do as far as musically. I did a lot of different music changes and there’s another sound in it that’s crazy that’s really low and you can’t even hear it and that was the driving part of his verse.

I want to say that there's something rhythmically wrong in the verse. It’s just wrong [laughs] I never heard Ross’ verses on the record, we just did the hook and the track. I heard the final when the album came out, I didn’t even know Trey Songz was on it till the album came out. I’m like ‘Yeah! I got one on Ross. I feel like it’s crazy!’ Then I open up the album and I’m like 'Nooo! I can’t believe they did me like this!' [laughs] The track is chopped up in different places, the structure is just wrong. I told Khaled to let me remix that record and put it out as a single. It felt like it had single potential, but wasn’t all the way there. Unfortunately that didn’t happen though."

"HELLO GOOD MORNING" - DIDDY/DIRTY MONEY

I did the track originally for Usher... that would’ve been crazy if he nailed. I sent that track to Mark Pitts, me and Rico Love were working together, we did the "So Many Girl"s record first which was originally for Dr. Dre’s Detox album, but that’s another story.

So "Hello Good Morning"... Mark loved it. I think Usher heard it and loved it too, but I don’t know what happened. Sometimes I do tracks and they’ll just float around and then randomly pop up. So some time later I was in Miami and Diddy was like 'Yo I got this joint that’s crazy!' I knew he was loving it, but I didn’t know 100% he wanted it as his first single. So he played it for me and It was dope, but it was left. I had to live with it a little bit to understand it because there wasn’t a prevalent chorus on it. After Diddy laid his vocals though, I really liked the way he sounded. Even though he was singing, his vibe was on point. Nicki killed it. Ross did his thing, but that was a last minute thing to throw him on it. I don’t think Tip was warmed up yet because that was one of the first verses he did since coming out [of jail]. I wasn’t loving it but I wasn’t mad at it either.

I was supposed to be in the video but I couldn’t make it. I definitely didn’t know Swizz was going to be in the video though. I’m cool with Swizz he always shows a lot of love, but when I saw him in the video I thought damn everyone’s going to think he produced it. Luckily Diddy went hard saying it was me who did. I’m cool with being in the background, but I’m going to present myself properly and step out there [more]. But I want it to be 100% right, because from that point on it will be different."

"SO MANY GIRLS" - USHER

"I did this track at the top of 2009, maybe 2008. Either way, I did the track and was like This. Is. Crazy. I originally did the track for Dr. Dre for Detox. I know Jimmy Iovine heard it and liked it but I don’t know if Dre heard it. It was intended for him and that was that. So after going through the hoops of if he heard or not, I just ended up giving it to Usher way later. I knew at this point he needed a single and they were going to go with it as a single at one point, but they did a couple other songs."


“WE TAKIN' OVER” - DJ KHALED

"Khaled hit me like 'Yo I need a record!’ At the time he mentioned liking “Promiscuous Girl” so I wanted to make a hip-hop version of that record. In my mind it was about the tempo of "Promiscuous," I just flipped it into a darker way. So Khaled comes in and gets excited he’s walking around saying 'This is a hit!' then runs out the studio and makes everyone listen to it. Khaled always gets me going! I always have in mind a record that I’ve done in the past that’s already a hit so I pretty much give DJs an alleyhoop. I don’t know if they realize that [laughs] You can easily go from “Promiscuous Girl” into “We Taking Over.”

“PROMISCUOUS GIRL” - NELLY FURTADO

"Me and Timabalnd did that song before we even got in the studio with Nelly. We did the whole album for Nelly, then we played that song and she was a little bit iffy [and said] we’ll come back to it. But throughout the making of the album, it left room for that. That was literally the last song we recorded and became the biggest hit. It was just one of those unstoppable records."

Big thanks to VIBE for the very insightful article!

Source:VIBE True Studio Stories

Rico Love - Hello Good Morning (Diddy Dirty Money Demo)

It was only a matter of time until the Rico Love Demo leaked, here it is check it out, notice the little differences from the final?

[audio http://danjahandz.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/rico-love-hello-good-morning-diddy-demo.mp3]

Jamie Foxx feat Rico Love - Freak (prod by Danja)

Well Mr Rico 'turn the lights off' Love and Jamie Foxx link up with Danja on this uptempo hard hitting track which ignites all senses as the song builds into a gradual bounce then explodes with fire towards the middle of the chorus! Definately a favourite Danja production this year. So what do you think of this track? Enjoy!

Jamie Foxx feat Rico Love - Freak

[audio http://danjahandz.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/05-freak-feat-rico-love.mp3]

Jamie Foxx feat Rico Love - Freak (prod by Danja)[snippet]

Here is a snippet of the Danja produced Freak featuring Rico Love from Jamie Foxx's new album Best Night of My Life! This sounds hot! Thoughts?

[audio http://danjahandz.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/jamie-foxx-featuring-rico-love-freak.mp3]

Enjoy!!