![]() ![]() For proof, look no farther than the chipmunked samples of ‘U Don’t Know’ and ‘Girls Girls Girls’. Starting with The Dynasty: Roc La Familia, Just Blaze and Kanye West helped revive a soul-heavy style that had fallen out of favor in hip-hop and would come to define the sound of the early aughts. Use your keyboard’s arrow keys or hit the prev / next arrows on your screen to turn pages (page 5/11) You’re the only person who could pull it off and throw that hip-hop vibe to it… The ‘On To The Next One’ sample is not even saying, ‘On to the next one.’ I just made it sound like ‘On to the next one.’ … That was a nice way for me to introduce people to Justice.” “I got this call from Pharrell and Q-Tip about the band Justice and they were saying, ‘Swizz you should vibe with Justice. ![]() The track inaugurated a collaborative relationship that continues to this day Swizz appears on Magna Carta Holy Grail. For the most part, the producers of his first two albums were replaced with established hitmakers, including Swizz Beatz, who was fresh off his breakthrough track, ‘Ruff Ryders’ Anthem’ in that vein, he paired Jay with DMX on the synth-heavy ‘Money, Cash, Hoes’. Use your keyboard’s arrow keys or hit the prev / next arrows on your screen to turn pages (page 3/11)įor his third album, Jay-Z aimed for the brass ring of post-Biggie/Tupac hip-hop and grabbed it with style. He’ll just lay his vocals, and says, ‘Do the Premier thing.’” You mess up on a punch, and you have to re-cut it. Kids these days don’t know how to cut notebook paper with a pair of scissors. Back then to edit it we had to splice the tape, and put it together. Let me go right in the booth.’ He laid it, and I attached it. ![]() Jay laid the first part, and walked back out to work with Too Short, and said, ‘Call me when you’re ready.’ I made the second part, and he said, ‘Yo, that’s it. So I just sampled it, and pitched it up to the right key, and threw it in on the pad. “As soon as said, ‘A Million and One,’ I thought, ‘One in a Million’. And while he’s had countless credits since 1999, there hasn’t been another with Hova.ĭJ Premier on ‘Intro/A Million and One Questions/Rhyme No More’: 1, reaching ouroboros-like levels on Life and Times‘s ‘So Ghetto’ by sampling lyrics from Jay-Z’s own ‘Who You Wit II’. An unparalleled crate-digger, he sampled seven tracks on the multi-part lead cut on In My Lifetime, Vol. The Gang Starr producer and hip-hop encyclopedia exhibited his scratch-and-speak style across Jay-Z’s first four albums. Use your keyboard’s arrow keys or hit the prev / next arrows on your screen to turn pages (page 2/11) But you know, he killed it in his own way.” So I said, “Fuck it, take the record.” It really was me and Suede from Camp Lo, the flow and everything, the way he was flowing on it. I don’t care what you do, I want that record.” I didn’t want to give it to him, but I had to because I knew he was going to be the man at the time. Jay heard it and was like, “I want that record. “It was me and Geechi Suede from Camp Lo, it was my hook and everything. Ski would go on to produce a pair of songs for In My Lifetime, Vol.1, but was drummed out when Jay cleaned house before Vol. The latter move indirectly led to the rappers’ half-decade long feud when Nas declined to appear on the song. Ski crafted dusty boom-bap and leaned on classic soul and jazz samples (the style du jour), but he also interpolated A Tribe Called Quest (’22 Two’s’) and - most famously - sampled Nas on ‘Dead Presidents’. The North Carolina-bred producer had a hand in Jay-Z’s early solo material, beginning with the original version of his debut single ‘In My Lifetime’. ![]()
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