{"id":6582,"date":"2019-08-05T14:12:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T18:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/?p=6582"},"modified":"2019-08-13T16:49:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T20:49:27","slug":"wondagurl-boi-1da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/wondagurl-boi-1da\/","title":{"rendered":"WondaGurl and Boi-1da on mentorship, sound design, and making sounds your own"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>When Ebony Oshunrinde entered a Battle of the Beat Makers competition in 2012, she didn\u2019t have a stage name.<\/h2>\n<p>She had always looked up to one of the judges, <a href=\"https:\/\/splice.com\/blog\/boi-1da-grammys-producing-mob-ties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boi-1da,<\/a> and decided to append \u201cGurl\u201d to \u201cWonda\u201d (1da) at the very last second as tribute. WondaGurl ended up winning first prize and linked up with her namesake and idol. Amazed by her work, Boi-1da took her under his wing as his prot\u00e9g\u00e9, and she has since gone on to produce hit after hit spanning Rihanna\u2019s \u201cBitch Better Have My Money,\u201d Travis Scott\u2019s \u201cAntidote,\u201d and Drake\u2019s \u201cUsed To.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We recently got WondaGurl and Boi-1da into the studio together. While showing each other their sounds, the two discussed mentorship, sound design, <a href=\"https:\/\/splice.com\/sounds\/splice\/wondagurl-pack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her sample pack<\/a>, and more &#8211; watch the video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Boi-1da crashes Wondagurl&#039;s studio session and they cook up a beat together\" width=\"370\" height=\"208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MwArGBjTRZo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>WondaGurl brings her stellar beat making chops to Splice with her new sample pack &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/splice.com\/sounds\/splice\/wondagurl-pack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>check it out here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently got WondaGurl and Boi-1da into the studio together. 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