Bbearded Loops Up a 101-Year-Old Track for Journey Montana on ‘Public Domain’
Journey goes in over a sample from Irving Berlin’s ‘Lazy.’
How deep will a producer dig for the right loop? We hit Bbearded with a catalog of songs dating back a century and let him get to work. He and Journey Montana connected for a freestyle over a beat built around an Irving Berlin sample from 2024.
See how it came together above, on the latest episode of Public Domain.
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