SANTA MONICA, Calif. — About 30 minutes into Darren Waller’s recording session, a music producer asked him to make a small tweak.
Waller, the Pro Bowl tight end for whom the Giants traded in March, was stationed inside Interscope Records’s sprawling headquarters trying to finalize two songs he’d created. He had just two hours to do so before his flight to Las Vegas, where his new wife, Kelsey Plum, waited.
With Waller’s song “Step” blaring, he leaned into the mic and let out a “skrrt” — an elongated ad-lib that a local talent manager asked him to shorten and sharpen.