Lil Tecca is entering his Plan A era on Sept. 20, and to help launch it, he dropped “Taste” and “Bad Time.” The rapper talks to Billboard‘s Mike Saponara about how he gathered inspiration for his album, how he handled reaching success at a young age, linking with Don Toliver and Juice WRLD, and listening to his fans when they speak about his music. Keep watching to see all the gems Lil Tecca drops and to see him play a game!
What’s going on, guys? This is Beat by Beat. I’m Mike Saponara here with Billboard. We have the great Lil Tecca. Tecc, talk to the people — how are we feeling?
Feeling good. I’m about to drop Plan A with my guy, Mike.
Hey, yeah, we’re looking forward to that. Take us back. When did that world start to take form for you?
I honestly got the name Plan A when I was about to finish Tec, my last album.
OK.
I didn’t really know what I wanted to call the next one. So when it was kind of time to decide the name for this album, I had a couple mines, couple names in my head, but I just remembered, like I was thinking about Plan A.
Plan A. There’s no Plan B.
Going Plan A.
Word. Where do you do most of your recording, I guess. How was the creative process for that?
For this album, we recorded most of it in Miami. I was just in the studio everyday with, like, money and ties and all of them. There was a couple songs that I did in New York and also in my crib, too.
Did you produce a lot of this album?
I didn’t produce a lot of it, but definitely my beat selection is what drives a lot of the production,
Right, right.
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