Did you teach Miley anything about herself? She’s still learning every day.

Last year, you told me that a big part of your job as producer is convincing artists to try new things. Once I figured that out, I kept working with her, started bringing in people like Rock City and Future to write on the project. People get goosebumps when she’s singing. I work with a lot of different artists, the labels show me every artist they got, so I know which ones are special.

Besides what everybody wants to say about her, she’s 20 and having fun. It’s also first time dropping an album in like three years. I don’t like to say anything is the best, but this is definitely some of my greatest work. This is the first album I executive produced. Is Miley’s album, Bangerz, all done? I just finished it. I want someone to put in my CD or download my album and not skip one song. Still, I told all the labels I’m meeting with, you cannot give me deadlines. So I’m gonna need a budget to fund all that stuff, and I don’t want it to come out of my pocket. I wanna do movies, videos, all types of shit. Or I can sign with this label, and yeah, I’ll have to bust it down with them, but I can also then do different business ventures on different stuff. If I keep it independent, I could make a million or two million. I feel like my empire could be built bigger. If I team up with a label it’s even better, so now I have a budget to pay my people and make sure everyone around me is building. The album could be good and I could make a lot of money if I released it independently, but at the same time I feel like I’m gonna make a lot of money regardless. I got a lot of different situations on the table, so I’m trying to weigh out my options and make sure I press the gas with the right team.Īre you going to release your album with a major label? Most likely, yeah. I don’t wanna drop just anything, cause I know for me it’s album time.

But I wanted to make sure I had everything geared up before I put anything out. I was working on my album, and I was like, this might as well be my first single. We weren’t sure what project we were gonna put it on, whether it would be for Miley’s album or Juicy J’s album. It was officially done in the summertime. How did “23” come together? The single “23,” we did it in February. After the shoot, Mike WiLL stopped by FADER offices to talk about the VMAs, his friendship with Cyrus, Future's upcoming album and WiLL's own signing to a major. The day after Miley Cyrus' denounced (and popular) VMA performance of 'We Can't Stop,' which Mike WiLL Made It produced, he filmed a video for his first-ever single, '23.' Photographer Sam Clarke captured a day on set, at South Brooklyn's then-empty-for-summer Bishop Ford High School.

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