What Lil Tecca Needed to Make ‘Ransom’ a Hit — Nick Mira, Taz Taylor, Cole Bennett | Diary of a Song

Lil Tecca was 16 and unsigned when he landed his first hit, “Ransom,” on the Billboard Hot 100. Diary of a Song goes behind the scenes with Tecca, the Internet Money producers Nick Mira and Taz Taylor, and the music video director Cole Bennett to learn how the song became a smash.

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