“So I'm always trying to move on to the next thing. The song ended up turning into “Liife” featuring Gucci Mane-Taylor’s first major placement.Īt that point, Taylor felt it was time to take another stab at the traditional side of the industry, but on his own terms this time. “Nothing lasts forever,” he says. Taylor didn’t remember actually sending anything, so the two traced things back until they figured out Desiigner had actually found one of his “Drake type” beats on YouTube. Music, who was asking about a beat he had sent to Desiigner. One day, he got a call from Steven Victor at G.O.O.D. Having built his own lane, Taylor’s options started opening up. Then I added other businesses and shit and I was making over $500,000 a year, just off the internet and kits and beats and all that shit.” I'm just going to go hard on the internet.’ So I did. “Once I got back home, I just had the mentality of, ‘Fuck the industry,’” Taylor adds. I ain't making shit.’ I was thinking, ‘So I'm making more money on the internet selling $30 leases than most of these fuckin' industry producers?’ I had no idea.” He was like, ‘Industry money? Where's that at? Man, I made like $15,000 last year. I was telling him I was trying to get this industry money or whatever. “I'm not going to say who he is, but he's cool with Metro Boomin and all these people. “I remember meeting up with an industry producer in Atlanta who I fucked with at the time,” he says. In no time, Taylor was pulling in $100,000 a year online and had ambitions to cross over from “internet producer” to traditional industry success.
At the age of 25, he already has a proven track record of materializing those wild ideas into reality. It would be a mistake to doubt anything he says, though. It’s impossible to speak with Taylor for more than a few minutes without hearing him describe grand plans for the future. I'm having a spot upstairs for video editors to pull up and edit their videos, too. “I'm signed with Alamo and Interscope, so why don't I have Smokepurpp come out here for a week and we do a whole album? Wifisfuneral is actually coming out here in July and he's staying for a whole week. “I was just thinking, what if I did a whole Internet Money house where all the producers have their own rooms and we're just working 24/7 with a big ass studio?” Taylor says. It also marks the latest step in Taylor’s wildly ambitious plan to change the way the music industry operates.
The house serves as a home base for his crew of producers to hang their gold and platinum plaques from records with artists like Juice WRLD, Lil Skies, and XXXTentacion. Nestled in the hills of Los Angeles, the property is Taz Taylor’s latest investment in his growing empire at Internet Money Records. If you visit the Internet Money mansion on any given night, you’ll run into a handful of rap's most successful and influential young producers.