onetdf’s productions can bait a certain kind of rap fan, down to his drops. Littered across his projects RELIGION and BLUEPRINT are vicious insults sampled from Instagram Live: tdf is a dickrider, tdf fell off, tdf has the Cheese Touch; tdf wants to be Pi’erre Bourne so bad, tdf keeps putting “random ass n***as” on his beats, tdf is “the worst prod in history.” “I don’t really take that stuff seriously, so I just put it in there,” the 20-year-old says. Heavily inspired by MexikoDro and yes, Pi’erre Bourne, tdf’s beats combine the lullaby melodies of plugg music with kick drums warped beyond all recognition. When tdf started producing around the age of 14, he was making “Playboi Carti type beats,” but quickly grew bored as his skills improved. “I just don’t want to be known as a clone. It’s cool to start off making type beats, especially if you’re a kid. [But] if you want to go far, you definitely got to make your own sound.” perlucidum caught up with tdf to talk about his musical in...