Pharrell's a real producer. On the flip side, you have this Zaytoven video where he just gives beats to a bunch of artists and gives them no input at all.
But if you're actually a producer, you take some creative control over what is done on your beats. He has to take some blame if he wants to be considered a producer. Mike Will Made It album was trash too. I'm finding more and more of these new guys are really just great beatmakers but can't...
The Focals are unnecessary. I'm just extra. I wanted a good balanced frequency response that I could both enjoy music with and mix occasionally. I got the Focal Alpha 50. If you're on a budget, the JBL LSR305 is great and only $99 each right now on Sweetwater. However, the most important thing...
I haven't been on the IC much the past few months. Back for this @silverfoxx though. This is fire. I can tell your mixing got better too. Blasted it on my Focal monitors.