The Larry June placement landed because Cardo Got Wings found the YouTube catalog at the end of 2018 and the conversation never stopped after that. Two people deserve credit before anyone else: AC and Cory from Larry’s team, who source the beats. Once they started pulling from the catalog, cuts ended up on Product of the Dope Game. Two specific records: “The Man Is Crazy” and “Peanut Butter Rag Top.”
This post is the receipt. No vague claims, no “worked with” language that producers use when they actually just sent over an unanswered DM. Real placements with paperwork, splits, and Content ID tracking on the masters.
How the Cardo discovery happened
It was the back half of 2018. DJ Idea’s YouTube catalog had been compounding for years (the daily upload streak started in 2016 and is still unbroken). Cardo Got Wings was crate-digging on YouTube, found the channel, hit DJ Idea up. NAMM 2019 was the first in-person meet. After NAMM, DJ Idea flew out to LA and spent a week at Cardo’s crib. Met Young Thug, Travis Scott (at his birthday party), Kendrick, ScHoolboy Q, 42 Dougg, Johnny Giuliano in the process.
The LA placement door opened in that week. Beats started circulating in the broader ecosystem. AC and Cory picked beats from the catalog. Cuts hit Larry’s next project.
Why the catalog matched the Larry June pocket
Larry June runs slow, melodic, low-pressure on the mix bus, with bass that breathes. The drums never crowd the vocal. Samples favor warm tape-flavored loops over bright sample-pack kits. Most type-beat producers miss this pocket because they over-saturate and over-compress everything that comes out of FL Studio.
The catalog sits in the pocket because the structural reference is Bay Area player music going back to JT The Bigga Figga’s From Fillmo to Hunters Point. That’s the same lineage Larry June’s sound comes from. Same DNA, different decade.
What the placement looks like
“The Man Is Crazy” and “Peanut Butter Rag Top” are both on Product of the Dope Game. Listed credits include “Prod. DJ Idea” per the licensing agreement. Master splits, publishing splits, and BMI registration all in place. The records are real, they exist, you can find them on every streaming platform.
For artists looking for beats in the same pocket, the Larry June type beats page on this site routes directly to the catalog filtered for that lane. The exact tracks Larry licensed are not available (they belong to him). Beats in the same pocket are.
The broader point
Type-beat tags are crowded. Search “Larry June type beat” on YouTube right now and you’ll get thousands of results. Most of them are made by producers who’ve never been in the room with Larry, never gotten a beat picked, never run the back-end paperwork on a placement. The receipts matter.
The producers who get placements consistently share three things: they’ve been in the room with the artist’s team, they’ve had at least one beat licensed already (it gets easier after the first), and they understand the specific sonic pocket the artist sits in. DJ Idea’s catalog clears all three for Larry June, for Cardo (the originating relationship), for Kamaiyah (5 records), for Tee Grizzley (“With a Sticc”), and for Big Sad.
Browse the full catalog or filter into specific pockets: Larry June type, Cardo type, Tee Grizzley type, Kamaiyah type. Every beat licensable on lease, premium, unlimited, or exclusive.