Mouse drop the track…
Baton Rouge’s Mouse On Tha Track is an artist you may not know by name, but the Trill Entertainment in-house producer is the one usually behind the boards when the label scores a mega-hit.
Mouse (real name: Jeremy Allen) has been making bounce-influenced club records since 2004, but the series of events that led to him joining the late-Pimp C’s Trill Ent. family are unclear. Despite the murky beginnings, though, he quickly earned his first major hit in 2005 with Webbie and Bun B’s “Give Me That,” a woozy southern course in courtship, featuring Bun’s numerical gymnastics to open his verse:
She five foot seven a hundred and thirty-nine pounds / Thirty-six, twenty-four, thirty-eight, pretty fine brown
A year later, on Boosie’s 2006 major label debut, Bad Azz, Mouse handled the bulk of the production and scored another national hit with the Yung Joc assisted, “Zoom” — a track that showcased the signature southern 808 bounce and hand-clap sound of the producer (“Zoom” was also a record planted firmly in the proto-snap model that was seeing plenty of radio play at the time; see also: the definitive record in the genre, “It’s Goin Down,” also featuring Yung Joc).
The next two years, Mouse produced tracks mosty for Trill Ent. acts, contributing to Webbie’s follow up, Savage Life 2, scoring a minor hit with 3 Deep’s “Watch My Feet,” and working on the Trill Fam compilation record, Survival Of The Fittest. 2009 saw the producer team up with Lil Cali to release their mixtape, Just Because, a record that was just as street-focused as anything Mouse did with Trill (and took the production in a slightly more aggressive direction), though it lacked the emotional depth of a Boosie project, or the (relative) charisma and rapping ability of his work with Webbie.
In 2010, Mouse continues to record music with an ever expanding roster of artists, notching a track with Soulja Boy this year, landing a beat on the final “Pimp C album,” and putting out an overlooked compilation record with Trill Family, as well.
So, as Mouse continues to bring his post-bounce sound into the next decade, I felt like it would be a good time to collect some of my favorite records he’s done over the last six years. This took way longer than expected, but I certainly don’t consider listening to most of Trill Entertainment’s catalog over a few days to be anything resembling a burden.
Unfortunately, the way production credits have become ephemeral at best (and completely forgotten at worst), made it difficult to actually put together a comprehensive list of all Mouse On Tha Track productions to date, so it’s entirely possible I overlooked some of his work here. This is by no means definitive, but here they are…
20 Great Mouse On Tha Track Productions:
- Webbie f/ Trina “Bad Bitch (Remix)” (2005, Savage Life, Trill Ent. / Asylum)
- Lil Boosie f/ Webbie “I Represent” (2006, Bad Azz, Trill Ent. / Asylum)
- Lil Cali f/ Young Dro & Mouse “Ric Flair” (2009)
- Webbie f/ Bun B “Give Me That” (2005, Savage Life, Trill Ent. / Asylum)
- Pimp C f/ Webbie & Lil Boosie “Hit The Parking Lot” (2010, The Naked Soul Of Sweet James Jones, Rap-A-Lot)
- B.G. f/ VL Mike & Webbie “Ain’t No Bitch” (2006, Heart Of The Streetz, Vol. 2 (I Am What I Am), Koch)
- Lil Boosie “Set It Off” (2006, Bad Azz, Trill Ent. / Asylum)
- Webbie “Laid Way Back” (2005, Savage Life, Trill Ent. / Asylum) (could only find the instro on YouTube)
- Mouse On Tha Track f/ Lil Trill & Lil Boosie “Rubbin’ On My Head (Remix)” (2010, Trill Entertainment Presents: All Or Nothing, Trill Ent. / Asylum)
- Lil Boosie “Zoom” (2006, Bad Azz, Trill Ent. / Asylum)
- 3 Deep “Watch My Shoes” (2007, Trill Ent. / Asylum)
- Lil Boosie f/ Shell & Mouse On Tha Track “Cartoon” (2010, Incarcerated, Trill Ent. / Asylum)
- Lil Cali & Mouse On Tha Track “Killin These N****s” (2009, Just Because, Mixtape)
- Webbie f/ Bun B & Lil Phat of 3 Deep “Doe Doe” (2008, Trill Ent. / Asylum)
- Soulja Boy f/ Mouse On Tha Track “Why They Jock My Style” (2010)
- Foxx f/ Lil Boosie & Webbie “Wipe Me Down (Remix)” (2007, Trill Entertainment Presents: Survival Of The Fittest, Trill Ent. / Asylum)
- Trill Fam (Lil Boosie, Webbie, Foxx, Mouse On Tha Track & Lil Trill) “Turn The Beat Up” (2010, Trill Entertainment Presents: All Or Nothing, Trill Ent. / Asylum)
- Trill Fam (Lil Boosie, Mouse On Tha Track, Webbie, Foxx & Lil Trill) “Better Not Fight” (2010)
- Webbie f/ Lil Boosie & Lil Phat “Independent” (2008, Savage Life 2, Trill Ent. / Asylum)
- Lil Boosie “Goin’ Thru Some Thangs” (2006, Bad Azz, Trill Ent. / Asylum)
-SM
(Check back for the .zip file, I’m having upload issues.)
