18 Facts About Mike Will

Mike Will has released six mixtapes and one studio album, Ransom 2.

Mike Will grew up in a musical family as his uncle was an accomplished guitar player and one of his older sisters was a drum major in the Olympics.

Mike Will first developed his talent for music by re-playing popular instrumentals that he heard on the radio while he and his friends would freestyle to them.

In several interviews, Mike Will has mentioned, in particular, re-playing the instrumental for "Still Fly", a popular song by the southern rap group Big Tymers, on a Casio brand keyboard, and has mentioned re-playing "Young'n " by New York rapper Fabolous on production equipment at a local music store.

At age 14, Mike Will began to develop his own beats on a Korg ES1 beat machine, which his father bought for him as a Christmas present from the local music store Mars Music.

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Mike Will was initially ignored, but eventually one of his beat tapes made its way into the hands of Gucci Mane, who then invited Mike Will to Patchwerk studios, an Atlanta recording studio.

Mike Will has since advised aspiring music producers not to drop out of college if they are not sure of their own future career outcome or lacking a defined plan before entering the industry.

In 2011, Mike Will released his first single, "Tupac Back", performed by Meek Mill and Rick Ross, from the compilation album Self Made Vol.

On March 23,2012, Mike Will partnered with popular music site The FADER to announce the second installment of his mixtape series, Est.

Mike Will executive produced Miley Cyrus's fourth studio album Bangerz, including its lead single "We Can't Stop".

On September 9,2013, Mike Will premiered his commercial debut single "23", featuring Wiz Khalifa, Juicy J and Miley Cyrus.

Mike Will revealed that he had signed with Interscope Records to release his debut album.

Mike Will was named producer of the year by HipHopDX on December 18,2013.

On June 17,2014, Mike Will Made It released the first single from his mixtape, "Buy the World", featuring Future, Lil Wayne and Kendrick Lamar.

In interviews, Mike Will has named several musical influences on his own production work.

Mike Will was the first producer to really bring that dark trap energy and sound.

Mike Will uses a variety of production equipment to create beats.

Mike Will's gear includes the Korg Triton, Akai MPC 1000, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Yamaha Motif, and the Roland Fantom-X.