4.29.2022
Audio: Internet Money – “No Handoutz” ft. Yeat
Taz Taylor’s Dominant Collective Recruit One of Rap’s Hottest Risers to Bring the Rage
Critical Praise:
“[Internet Money] grew into a music industry powerhouse that helped break stars like Juice WRLD and Lil Tecca, racking up dozens of Billboard hits and platinum plaques in the process.” – Complex
“The group of beatmakers is dominating music-streaming services” – Billboard
“It seems only inevitable that these guys are just going to continue to take the world by storm, one hit at a time.” – MTV
“Even if you aren’t familiar with L.A. production collective Internet Money, you’ve heard their beats. The group’s sounds have powered some of hip-hop’s biggest records in the past couple years, from Rich the Kid’s “Plug Walk” and Juice WRLD’s “Lucid Dreams” to Drake’s “Blue Tint.” The group is helmed by Taz Taylor, a Florida native who — true to his collective’s name — has accumulated a fortune primarily through the internet.” – The FADER
The Song:
Earning plaques by the handful as they shape the sound of modern rap, Taz Taylor and his ever-growing roster of Internet Money producers expertly craft their beats to accentuate the strengths of their artist collaborators. Turning up the energy level to match the hard-charging tastes of one of rap’s hottest rising stars, Internet Money shares “No Handoutz,” the collective’s first collaboration with Yeat. Produced by Rio Leyva, Yeat & Taz Taylor, “No Handoutz” combines buzzing synth melodies, distorted 808s, and of course, tolling bells, creating a carnival-esque canvas for the 22-year-old rapper to do his thing. Manipulating his voice to match the various contours of the instrumental, Yeat unleashes an onslaught of energetic flows, emphatically denouncing those who attempt to bite his style as a shortcut to reaching the top: “They don’t really know ’bout that heat/They ain’t even heard of me/They try to steal my swag/Boy that’s a burglary.” A symbiotic union between oft-imitated SoundCloud titans, the combination of Yëat and Internet Money arrives with internet-breaking force.
The electrifying “No Handoutz” is the latest release from Internet Money, who have proven they can make magic with some of the rap game’s most singular stars. “No Handoutz” follows “Options” ft. 24kGoldn, a punchy, guitar-driven collaboration with a pop-punk edge. They kicked off the year with “Flossin,” a high-octane banger featuring NBA YoungBoy, taking the firebrand’s bayou-bred sound and giving it the 4K treatment. Debuting at #72 on the Billboard Hot 100 upon its release in February, the glistening track has racked up over 17.6 million streams on Spotify alone.
“Options,” “Flossin’,” and “No Handoutz” continue Internet Money’s mission to grow their empire in 2022. The new singles, along with the rise of IM-affiliated artists like Dro Kenji, Rotken, and Rich Amiri, continue the momentum that the pioneering artist-producer collective carried in 2021.
Just last year, Internet Money earned over 40 RIAA plaques on songs they produced, including hits by Juice Wrld, Polo G, Lil Tecca, and The Kid Laroi. In addition to the new wall full of plaques, IM producers Nick Mira and DT earned a GRAMMY nomination for their work on Lil Nas X’s MONTERO. Internet Money found success as lead artists with the GOLD certified “His & Hers,” a sparkling collab with Don Toliver, Gunna, and Lil Uzi Vert, which debuted at #67 on the Billboard Hot 100, racked up over 26 million views on the Cole Bennett-directed video, earned a spot as one of the Top Global Tracks on TikTok, and received recognition from Complex, who named it the 26th best song of 2021. “His & Hers” was a worthy follow-up to “Lemonade” ft. Gunna, Don Toliver & NAV, the triple-Platinum, Billboard Top 10 2020 hit from B4 The Storm, Internet Money’s star-studded first full-length.
After two years cooking up hits and armed with a brand new studio in Santa Monica, CA, Internet Money is ready to show the world how much they’ve grown. With a collaborations on the way that range from the rap game’s biggest stars to its most notable rising names and über-talented Internet Money Records signees, stay tuned for much more music from Internet Money as they continue to advance Taz Taylor’s industry-conquering ambitions.
Buy/Stream “No Handoutz” ft. Yeat: https://internetmoney.lnk.to/nohandoutz
For more info, please contact:
Audible Treats: Michelle, Kerry or Kevin
10K Projects: Hannah
The Background:
Internet Money Background:
Starting as a type-beat factory and growing into a global powerhouse, Taz Taylor and Internet Money have earned 3 Grammy nominations, 58 platinum plaques, 33 gold, and 14 Billboard #1 hits since 2018. The collective is behind some of the biggest rap and R&B hits of the past few years, including Juice WRLD’s “Lucid Dreams” (1.3 billion Spotify streams), Trevor Daniel’s “Falling” (#1 Billboard Mainstream Pop, 37 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 with #17 peak), Lil Tecca’s “Ransom” (700 million Spotify streams, #4 Hot 100), and XXXTentacion’s “Fuck Love” ft. Trippie Redd (the most-played song in SoundCloud history). With 2020’s B4 The Storm album, and its double-platinum single “Lemonade” ft. Gunna, Don Toliver & NAV, Taz Taylor and Internet Money confirmed their status as the music industry’s most powerful hitmaking collective.
Internet Money was born out of necessity, a hybrid company that has filled in the gaps between the rap industry, the producer community, and the online marketplace. Disillusioned with the industry, and the way he saw rap producers being taken advantage of, Taz Taylor formed the collective in 2016 as a way to share the knowledge he’d gained from years spent selling his “type beats” online and navigating the internet’s ever-growing impact on the production landscape.
Four years in, Internet Money has expanded as a collective, including Grammy-nominated producers like Nick Mira and JR Hitmaker, and produced for Drake, Trippie Redd, Juice WRLD, and many more. “When you’re in Internet Money, you get the same opportunities that I do, you’re gonna be working with the same artists that I’m working with, and getting credits with them,” Taylor says. “Instead of working with a bunch of people we don’t know, we just have our own network that’s one big family.” Following their success breaking major artists like Trevor Daniel, and co-producing his multi-platinum hit “Falling,” Taylor and Internet Money partnered with Elliot Grange’s 10K Projects in 2019 to launch their own label.
Taz Taylor Background:
Taz Taylor has never cared about fame or clout. To hear the multi-platinum producer and Internet Money founder tell it, everything he’s done — from turning his online production hustle selling “type beats” into a $500,000 per year business to forming his own label — has been born out of necessity and guided by intuition. “I’ve been so tunnel vision during the last five years to make sure I got to this point,” he says. “It was just like, Let’s keep building.”
Though Taylor has only been in the industry for a few years, his accomplishments in that time have come at a staggering pace, notching, by his estimation, over 500 placements and around 200 gold and platinum plaques between himself and the other producers on his Internet Money team. As their leader, Taylor has quickly become a new sort of rap mogul, one who’s built his steadily growing empire from a deep knowledge of the ways music moves online, and he’s done it all from the humblest of beginnings.
Links:
Internet Money: official site | soundcloud | twitter | instagram | facebook | youtube
Taz Taylor: twitter | instagram
“No Handoutz” ft. Yeat: https://internetmoney.lnk.to/nohandoutz
“Options” ft. 24kGoldn: https://internetmoney.lnk.to/options
“Flossin'” ft. YoungBoy Never Broke Again: https://internetmoney.lnk.to/flossin
“His & Hers” ft. Don Toliver, Gunna & Lil Uzi Vert:
https://internetmoney.lnk.to/hisandhers / https://youtu.be/bth7ViGGpeY
“JETSKI” ft. LIl Mosey & Lil Tecca: https://internetmoney.lnk.to/JETSKI
“Blast Off” ft. Juice WRLD & Trippie Redd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omGrk9CdjfQ
“Lemonade” (Remix) w/ Anuel AA: https://internetmoney.lnk.to/Lemonade-Remix
“Lemonade” (Remix) w/ Roddy Ricch: https://internetmoney.lnk.to/lemonaderemix
B4 The Storm: https://internetmoney.lnk.to/b4thestorm
“Thrusting” ft. Swae Lee & Future: https://internetmoney.lnk.to/Thrusting
“Lemonade” ft. Don Toliver, NAV & Gunna: https://internetmoney.lnk.to/lemonade
“Somebody” ft. Lil Tecca & A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie: https://internetmoney.lnk.to/somebody