Mick Jenkins Drum Kit [TESTED]

Forget the crisp, crystal-clear hi-hats of modern trap. Mick’s producers use hats that sound like they are being played through a blown speaker or a cassette tape. They are often slightly saturated and panned hard left or right (not centered). The rhythm is lazy, dragging behind the beat slightly—a hallmark of the "Dilla feel."

: Blend a dry drum signal with a heavily compressed version to get "punch" without losing the natural dynamics. mick jenkins drum kit

Mick Jenkins is "The Water." For your snare return bus, use a convolution reverb impulse response of a bathroom or a concrete tunnel. Short decay (0.8s), high damping. This creates the "submerged" quality common to The Water[s] . Forget the crisp, crystal-clear hi-hats of modern trap

When Jenkins collaborated with BadBadNotGood on tracks like "Drowning," the "drum kit" stopped being a machine and became real. Consequently, modern Mick Jenkins drum kits often include: The rhythm is lazy, dragging behind the beat

I can provide a step-by-step guide to mixing these drums to get that professional, "underwater" polish.