As part of the company’s Apollo Artist Sessions series, Universal Audio invited hip-hop artist Saba and veteran producer No ID to Raphael Saadiq’s Hollywood studio to record a track with Grammy-winning engineer Jimmy Douglass and documented the entire process.
Having previously worked together on 2025’s From The Private Collection of Saba and No ID – a project pairing Saba’s introspective flows with No ID’s soulful, understated production that was lauded by many as one of the year’s best hip-hop albums – the duo have an established creative partnership, and their free-flowing collaborative spirit is clear to see as they transform a single drum loop into a finished song, Paygrade (Demo).
