Gol’s first project for Image Line was 1996’s Private Investigator, an arcade-style shoot-em-up game played from the perspective of Dick Slammer, a private eye investigating a case of adultery on behalf of his client. The Belgian company convinced Gol to come work for them to build on their growing arsenal of adult-themed PC games. Better known as Gol from his days on early web forums, Dambrin was a coding prodigy, not only winning the “Game” category of the IBM contest, but also the Grand Prize. But the real prize was their introduction to teenage French developer Didier Dambrin. Image Line entered, and won, the multimedia category of the IBM contest, which awarded winners colored laptops. No one had a background in music-they just wanted to make cool video games.

Music software was never a consideration in the company’s early days. While Soulja Boy may have finally gotten the credit for the trends he started, Gol-the mastermind behind FL Studios-remains largely unknown. On the FruityLoops website, they boast “it has everything you need in one package to compose, arrange, record, edit, mix and master professional quality music.” Officially renamed FL Studio in 2003, after a lawsuit from cereal-maker Kelloggs, the software is the brainchild of Belgian software company Image Line’s star developer, Didier “Gol” Dambrin. It has helped countless other producers too, eventually becoming one of the most important music production programs of the past 20 years. But FruityLoops-an unconventional software that can feel more like playing a video game than a professional digital audio workstation, or DAW-didn’t just help Soulja Boy craft the beat to his signature song. 1 hit, “Crank That,” in his bedroom in minutes. But there is another innovation he had a hand in that he only mentioned in passing during the hour-long interview: FruityLoops.īack in 2007, the rapper-turned-walking-meme used FruityLoops to self-produce his No. He said he started the internet wave for rappers, that he was the first artist on YouTube, and that he “taught Drake everything he knows.” Despite the rapper’s reputation for stretching the truth, he wasn’t wrong-he did popularize a lot of hip-hop trends. During Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em’s viral, instant-classic appearance on The Breakfast Club this January, he made many bold claims.

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