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Big Kuntry featuring Yung LA & T.I. – “I Do” Produced by Nard & B

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Producers Nard & B, also referred to as Trenchwerk, have been making a lot of noise in the production market lately. Their recent collaboration with Just Blaze on Maino’s “All the Above” put Nard & B on the radar. In this interview with our go-getter intern Strizzy, they talk about how they quietly snuck up on the game, and who they’ve been working with lately. Check out the full feature and more Nard & B tracks when we continue…

Location: Atlanta, GA
Website: www.Myspace.com/NardandBbeatz
Affiliation: Grand Hustle
Songs You May Know: Maino’s “All the Above”, Yung LA’s “Elroy/Futuristic Love”, Lil Boosie “Nobody” ft. Bobby V, Willy Northpole “Hood Dreamer” ft. B.O.B.

How did you guys come together as a production duo?
Nard: We went to school together actually. We went to engineering school together off Covington Highway.
B: We definitely went to school got some knowledge behind our craft.

Where are y’all from?
B: He’s originally from Albany. I was born in North Carolina, raised in Atlanta, GA.
Nard: We both was pretty much raised in Atlanta so most of our influences came from Atlanta, growing up in the Freak Nik days and you know, growing up in the skate rink and all of that.

What artists have y’all worked with so far?
B: We really touched down with just about everybody, but right now for singles we got Maino featuring T-Pain “All the Above.” We did that along with our big brother Just Blaze. We got Willy Northpole and B.O.B. “Hood Dreamer” that’s doin’ good right now. We got Yung LA new single “Elroy Futuristic Love” featuring Rico Barrino.
Nard: Shouts out to Rico Barrino.
B: We got Lil Boosie new single featuring Bobby Valentino called “Nobody.” You gotta definitely look for Big Kuntry new single featuring Young Dro and Tip. That’s definitely our family so we gotta make it do what it do.

So what producers inspired y’all to wanna do music?
B: The producers we looked up to were the ones who did more R&B type shit. I would have to say like Jermaine, Bryan Cox, Puffy used to do his thing, along them lines.
Nard: Teddy Riley, Cool and Dre, Mannie Fresh, Swizz Beatz, you know the usual folks. We listen to all types of music. We try to build more of a melody structure and more feeling into rap music. For a minute it was all about let’s do some dancing, and let’s talk about trapping d all that, and at the end of the day, everybody still has lives to still live.
B: We feel things were being so formulated anyway, it needed to be shaken up a little bit, just push artists out of their usual box.
Nard: Try to push the envelope.

So how did y’all get your situation with Grand Hustle?
B: That’s interesting…
Nard: Well, you know at the end of the day, you gotta have a plan in everything you do. It’s a process for everything. We just had to find a way to get into the music industry without stepping on any toes and hurting each other’s feelings. See what I did was started off recording people. For some reason, most people in the music industry don’t want to record. Nobody wants to be the janitor or the trash man, but you might have the janitor be the president of your company and that will be the person you work for one day. We started off doing the things people didn’t want to do. By us doin’ that, people would be like, “we need some tracks.” We were in the position to slide in so we slid in with it and everybody liked what we was doing. It’s a blessing. We still feel like it’s the beginning.

Name an artist that you haven’t worked with that you would love to do production for.
B: You got to say off the top Hov. We worked with Kanye, but we wanna actually lock in some shit and vibe from scratch on some shit.
Nard: A lot of times people want you to send them tracks. Most of the placements we got have been off our management – Black and Jag. A lot of people the music industry is getting away from that personal thing, like a lot of people don’t wanna work with one another in the studio like they used to and that’s what we really wanna do. As long as we can get in the studio with an artist and produce what they want it’s great.

How did y’all come up with the name Trenchwerk?
B: Its goes back to what Nard said, nobody wants to be a janitor. Trenchwerk is just a way for us. No matter how far we go in life, we won’t forget where we came from.

Yung LA ft. Ricco Barrino – “Elroy/Futuristic Love” Produced by Nard & B

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