Rico Beats, the producer behind Pusha T’s diss track “Exodus 23:1” featuring The-Dream, sat down with MTV News and spoke on the process.

Rico says he was not aware it would be a diss song, “Honestly, when we were in the room listening to that record, I didn’t hear none of these guys’ names brought up,” he continued, “It was none of that. Dream got in his zone and he went in the booth. Pusha got his pen, like I didn’t hear nobody mentioned.”

Before he made the beat, Rico said the only request he received from Pusha was to make something that sounded dark.

“Pusha kept telling me, ‘I need something dark, man. The album sounds crazy, but I still need something for my fans’. So I was like, ‘I got you, give me by six o’clock,’ ” recalled Rico. “I went down to the studio and I was just listening to Biggie. I was just playing pure Biggie. So [“What’s Beef”] came on and once I heard B.I.G.’s ‘ha-ha-ha-ha’ I was like, ‘Oh shit’.”

See full interview here.