{"id":3387,"date":"2017-02-06T09:48:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T14:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/?p=3387"},"modified":"2017-11-20T12:29:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T17:29:07","slug":"grammys-2017-4-things-need-know-nineteen85-best-producer-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/grammys-2017-4-things-need-know-nineteen85-best-producer-nominee\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammys 2017: 4 things you need to know about Nineteen85, best producer nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grammy week has arrived! We&#8217;ve made cheat sheets on all the best producer nominees, so you can impress the guests at your Grammy party. Read up on Nineteen85 below, then check out the full series <a href=\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/everything-need-know-grammy-nominees-best-producer\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>#1.\u00a0He bought his first instrument\u00a0with money from his paper route<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Anthony Paul Jefferies aka Nineteen85 grew up in Toronto&#8217;s Scarborough district to a Jamaican mother and Canadian father. Using the money he earned as a newspaper delivery boy, Jefferies bought himself a guitar and taught himself Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin songs. When he was in high school, he was part of a punk band, and that was his first experience writing music and making recordings.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>#2.\u00a0He credits another OVO great for his sparse style<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Like many young producers, Jefferies started off wanting to get all his ideas on one song. But his mentor, Noah &#8220;40&#8221; Shebib of OVO, taught him to step back his productions and leave room for the artist. Sparseness is now a signature part of Jefferies&#8217; sound.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>#3. He&#8217;s a private guy in the public eye<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>A social following of only 21K followers on Instagram and 12K followers on Twitter is a rare sight for a hip hop producer of Jefferies caliber. Jefferies prefers to remain private and let the music do the talking &#8212; according to him, a producer is not a beatmaker but a feelmaker.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>#4.\u00a0He made Timmy Thomas a very happy man<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Jefferies stumbled upon the 1973 Timmy Thomas song &#8220;Why Can&#8217;t We Live Together&#8221; while thumbing through radio stations in his car, a couple of months before &#8220;Hotline Bling&#8221; would hit those same airwaves. It was one of those magical musical &#8220;aha&#8221; moments, and Jefferies built the Drake hit around a sample of &#8220;Why Can&#8217;t We Live Together.&#8221; Thomas\u00a0didn&#8217;t know his dusty track had been revived until &#8220;Hotline Bling&#8221; was already climbing the charts.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>READ MORE:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/everything-need-know-grammy-nominees-best-producer\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3414 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Artboard-8-copy-3-1024x536.png\" alt=\"2017-grammy-producers-nominees\" width=\"851\" height=\"444\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Artboard-8-copy-3-1024x536.png 1024w, https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Artboard-8-copy-3-355x186.png 355w, https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Artboard-8-copy-3-400x209.png 400w, https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Artboard-8-copy-3-768x402.png 768w, https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Artboard-8-copy-3.png 1200w, https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Artboard-8-copy-3-300x157.png 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 851px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 851\/444;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grammy week has arrived! 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