It was like 10 tracks, and I was like, “Holy shit dude, these samples are amazing.” I reached out to Cole and I told him, “I got this new track from this guy named Tommy Parker.” And me and Cole jumped on a call and went through a bunch of samples, then we landed on that one for “Interlude.” So I got a pack from management team and I went through it one day. They’re just ideas of music and stuff like that. T- Minus: I got a pack of tracks, which are essentially samples. What’s the story behind how the track came together? What were each of your contributions? So this record was another record that we created within that time period. We’ve been cooking up, even during COVID. So I’ve been on board with Cole for quite some time. T- Minus: I’ve been working on this project since pretty much the beginning. How did Cole reach out about doing “Interlude?” And actually, today was the first time we really got to connect one-on-one. We just connected through his management. So you two didn’t know each other prior to this experience? That actually was my first time working with J. Tommy Parker: I recently started with a management group and they got me connected to T-Minus and that’s how I got connected to the project. “I just liked to time travel in the samples and give it to great producers like T-Minus to see what they can do to it. “When I did the sample, I was listening to a lot of James Brown, and a lot of Sam Cooke, and different artists,” he explains. In reality, though, Tommy, who has previously worked with artists like Justin Bieber and Janet Jackson, created the loop from scratch. “Interlude” is centered around a soulful loop, which many fans assumed was a sample from an old James Brown record.
T-Minus is a veteran producer who has worked with Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Nicki Minaj, and recently produced Cole’s 20 singles “Lion King on Ice,” and “Middle Child.” He adds, “Not a lot of songs in the music industry come out like this, because a lot of times, when a producer and artist come together, the beat can actually take three to six months for it to get in the right hands. “I think it was a couple of weeks ago,” T-Minus tells Complex, revealing the timeline for the creation of the song. “Sometimes you gotta say fuck it tho.” Ten hours later, Cole dropped “Interlude,” a single from his highly-anticipated project The Off-Season.Īccording to co-producers T-Minus and Tommy Parker, the song came together just as quickly as Cole’s decision to release it as a single. “Told myself I would drop the album all at once,” J.
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