If Mike WiLL could last 120 hours in the studio, playing through endless beats for an MC to jump on, Volpe would last maybe 12 minutes. Mike Volpe, who produces and releases music as Clams Casino, is taking the less-traveled path.

The most prolific producer usually wins the day. Take the “five beats a day x three summers” regimen mapped out by Kanye West on his song “Spaceship” Drake producer Frank Dukes and his self-made Kingsway Music Library, a massive collection of affordable original music for other beatmakers to sample or the catalog of beats Atlanta hotshot Mike WiLL Made-It has created (enough that “Mike could lock you in a studio for five days and not play the same beat twice,” according to Miley Cyrus). Whatever happens, it doesn't seem Clams and Aiko will be working together any time soon.Read enough interviews with hip-hop producers (or the rappers who use their work) and you’ll come to understand that successfully selling a beat is often a numbers game - and that volume wins. She also noted that the track was put out as a free release, so no profits are being reaped off of the 'reproduced' instrumental.įor now, all we have to go off is the word of each artist, so we won't know if there was any plagiarism involved in the making of 'B's & H's' until Clams shares a preview of the original instrumental.

So far, Aiko has had the last word in the back and forth, as she confirmed the track was 'reproduced,' though she insisted that it was not a replication of anything belonging to Clams. Clams then replied to Aiko and alleged that her in-house production team (The Fisticuffs) recreated one of his productions in order to avoid paying the full cost of a Clams Casino beat. She then followed up by suggesting that Clams might be 'upset' because she 'chose another beat' over one of his to sing atop for her new single. Her longtime collaborators The Fisticuffs were named as the producers of the new track, though Clams Casino, who worked with Aiko (as well as The Fisticuffs and Thundercat) on the Souled Out track 'W.A.Y.S.,' claims the 'B's & H's' instrumental is a copy of one of his own beats.Ĭlams called out Aiko and The Fisticuffs by tagging them both in a Twitter post, in which he wrote, 'You guys have no shame about this? At all?' Aiko quickly responded to his inquiry, and implied that she had no idea what he was referring to. Jhené Aiko returned last month with a new single, 'B's & H's,' that was premiered on Soulection's show on Beats 1 radio.

Clams casino jhene aiko