Rico Beats

While Rico, The Dream, and Pusha T were in Miami working on a bunch of songs, "Millions", which was originally produced by Southside, was played and Kanye West didn't like how the record was sounding. He wanted the drums to knock louder, some extra sounds, and a choir, so he asked Rico to do it. He refused, because he didn't want to work on someone else's beat without their permission, so they tried to reach out to Southside but they couldn't reach him. A year later, Rico's manager kept telling him, "Man, they need you to redo the drums" and Rico said, "Well, why don't you ask Southside. He produced it!" About a week before the song dropped, Rico gets an email from the engineer at the G.O.O.D. Music label who mixed the song, pleading with him to add his signature drums and the choir to it. So at that point, Rico just did it as a favor to Pusha T, because they always had a great relationship and he wanted the record to come out right, not even knowing that he would get credit for it. When the song was released, he found out they had given him credit through Twitter because all of these people were telling him, "Oh, you killed that beat," and he corrected them, but Southside felt a way about that and starting cursing him out on Twitter.[3]

They kept going back and forth on Twitter. Southside tweets, "To good music need to inform niggas if they gone have niggas fuckin wit yo beats honestly I don't here wat dis guy did". Then Rico fired back with the following tweets, "Fam like I told everyone when they talkin' bout that shit I did redid damn drums and choir that's what they emailed me to do. They been asking me for fucking year to redo ya drums and the choir u had I kept saying no until last week. I don't give fuck bout no production credit on millions G I ain’t chassin' that I ain't ask for no bread or pub. I ain't know niggaz gave me co pub till shit came out so go holla at them niggaz fam I ain't chassin' no mixtape cred". Southside came back and tweeted, "U couldn't redo shit it ain't re done y'all fuck niggas y'all makes a name off niggas like me u didn't ask for it but u took it". Both producers continued lobbing social media grenades until the threats became real when Rico tweeted this, "Nigga shut ya dirty ass up and holla when u see me. I'm here NY come nigga stop all that tweeting just get down here". Southside fired back with a threat of his own, "I'll have nigga pull up on ur gay ass where Eva u at nigga. Bet say no more nigga". Thankfully, both parties stopped tweeting each other and, presumably, went back to making beats.[7]