Mike Will Made-It has had many good years since he broke out in 2011, but 2016 garnered him his first number-one hit and saw him become one of Gucci Mane's production lieutenants upon the latter's release from prison. To cap off a strong year as one of hip-hop's strongest producers, Mike Will has resumed his Instrumental Tuesdays beat tape series on Soundcloud after a year-long hiatus, collecting nearly every single beat he worked on in 2016, and boy howdy do we have some slappers on deck here.Big hits like "Black Beatles" and "Formation" reveal their intricacies, with woodblock percussion in the latter and in-the-pocket 808 fills in the former. The vast majority of Rae Sremmurd's SremmLife 2 album is present ("Came a Long Way" and "Swang" were the only tracks not produced by Mike Will himself) which means that you can now weep to the just-as beautiful instrumental version of "Just Like Us" and use it to score an emotional movie trailer or something. We also have Young Thug's Yeezy Season-crashing "With Them" present, as well as the indomitable reggae-trap of "MF'n Right" by 2 Chainz. Again, the collection truly puts into perspective just how good a year Mike Will made 2016. You can stream Instrumental Tuesdays 2016 below.
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