How Planta Industrial Met<\/p>\n
\nSaso and Akathedarknight met in high school but didn\u2019t become close until after graduation. At the time, they were on very different paths. Akathedarknight focused on fashion, while Saso prepared for law school. \u201cSo then, once it turned for me, taking music seriously,\u201d Saso explains, everything shifted. Akathedarknight was already involved behind the scenes. \u201cAKA was always helping me, not only with music production but also with lyrics, directing, editing, wearing a lot of hats, and my operation,\u201d Saso adds.<\/p>\n
When they realized they were both actively making music, they decided to collaborate. Their first song together was \u201cThat\u2019s My Bitch,\u201d which led to the journey they are on right now. \u201cIt\u2019s like, finally, putting together the peanut butter and the jelly. You can eat jelly by itself and peanut butter, but we just did something that just really hit, and I guess the rest will be history,\u201d akathedarknight says.<\/p>\n
Despite industry advice to push one song for a year in exchange for streams, which was \u201cThat\u2019s My Bitch,\u201d Planta Industrial chose a different path. \u201cWhy not give you more songs so you could feel like you were part of us? That\u2019s what we wanted. We didn\u2019t want everyone to just know \u2018That\u2019s My Bitch\u2019 for a year. It just didn\u2019t feel right,\u201d akathedarknight explains. This decision gave us hits such as \u201cTeteo in The Bronx\u201d and \u201cArthur Ave,\u201d to name a few.<\/p>\n
Arthur Ave, Big Pun, and the Bronx<\/p>\n
\u201cArthur Ave\u201d feels like a love letter to their neighborhood, their upbringing, and Big Pun. As their TikTok caption, \u201cDominicans From the Bronx,\u201d began gaining traction, the song became a way to honor where they come from. \u201cBig Pun was such a big staple. He\u2019s one of the most lyrical hip-hop artists of all time, right? He\u2019s really up there. And we just wanted to pay homage to our borough,\u201d akathedarknight says. The song represents unity as well. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t more so about being Dominican. It was more about the Bronx. Big Pun is Puerto Rican, and where we grew up, everyone was one. And it didn\u2019t matter if you were Dominican, Puerto Rican, Mexican, or whatever we were; if you\u2019re in the Bronx, we\u2019re all one family.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sampling Big Pun was also intentional in this song. Saso explains that it\u2019s one of those lines DJs stop the record for, where the whole room chants along. Instead of using it conventionally, Planta Industrial flipped the approach. \u201cWe decided not make it the conventional use of the sample. We did Prodigy breakbeats again; it\u2019s just building the soundscape of what Planta can offer and work with. It\u2019s like what hasn\u2019t been done before. No one\u2019s ever done it in that way,\u201d akathedarknight says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How Planta Industrial Met Saso and Akathedarknight met in high school but didn\u2019t become close until after graduation.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-79131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}