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For Life's a ? , Nas wanted to use a different sample. Also this was the first time Nas and AZ met, AZ's hook was apart of a freestyle he kicked to Nas.
Can I Live from Reasonable Doubt, was supposed to have Nas on the second verse, but he failed to show up to record his part so after a few weeks of waiting Jay came up with a second verse.
Can I Live from Reasonable Doubt, was supposed to have Nas on the second verse, but he failed to show up to record his part so after a few weeks of waiting Jay came up with a second verse.
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UGK One Day & Murder
Was originally a Mr 3-2 ft ? C track but he didnt think it was good enough for his album (lol)
? took his throwaway for Riding ? . Bun didnt want to do it because he didnt want to rap about vunerable/sensitive subjects but ? convinced him. Lil Keke was lined up to lay a verse if Bun wasnt down.
In return for Bun agreeing he wanted ? to make an uptempo track he could rap his ass off to to showoff his skills. So ? made "Murder" and Bun recorded his verse in one take. -
2Pac's "All About U" used to be a Dogg Pound track
He came outta jail, and took it
Same thing with "California Love", he took that one too. -
2Pac's "All About U" used to be a Dogg Pound track
He came outta jail, and took it
Same thing with "California Love", he took that one too.
California Love was a Dre record. -
Read nas was supposed to be on biggies gimme da loot but heard the lyrics, tried to write, told ? he'll be back and in typical nasir Jones fashion never showed back up. So biggie ended up writing and recording the other part himself. I also remember that biggie then wanted to put him on machine gun funk, idk
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UGK One Day & Murder
Was originally a Mr 3-2 ft ? C track but he didnt think it was good enough for his album (lol)
? took his throwaway for Riding ? . Bun didnt want to do it because he didnt want to rap about vunerable/sensitive subjects but ? convinced him. Lil Keke was lined up to lay a verse if Bun wasnt down.
In return for Bun agreeing he wanted ? to make an uptempo track he could rap his ass off to to showoff his skills. So ? made "Murder" and Bun recorded his verse in one take.
crazy cuz Bun killed both of em.....but 3-2 trashed it??????....thats crazy.....i know he was mainly on that hard ? tho
the story behind Big Pimpin was funny as hell....I aint gone run the whole ? but I remember them quoting ? saying he didnt like the beat "with them ? ass whistles" lmao -
UGK One Day & Murder
Was originally a Mr 3-2 ft ? C track but he didnt think it was good enough for his album (lol)
? took his throwaway for Riding ? . Bun didnt want to do it because he didnt want to rap about vunerable/sensitive subjects but ? convinced him. Lil Keke was lined up to lay a verse if Bun wasnt down.
In return for Bun agreeing he wanted ? to make an uptempo track he could rap his ass off to to showoff his skills. So ? made "Murder" and Bun recorded his verse in one take.
Goat ? -
Shenco recorded Standardized Slaughter on one of these bad boys
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Q-Tip remade the beat for "Jazz (We've Got)" after hearing it at Pete Rock's crib..."Pete Rock: Q-Tip came over one day and heard the beat playing and liked it. And I had the records sitting around because I had just made it, so the records were there and he saw what I used. I guess he liked it and went back and tried to re-create it and make it sound just like the way I did it. I had a few more elements in it. I had the same drums and the sample, and he actually did the beat the same way I did it. And he shouted me out [at the end of the song]."
Q- Tip:Yeah and this is what happened. We were at his crib in Mount Vernon and we were all supposed to rhyme over this beat… me, him and Large Professor. He was rockin’ it and I was just like ‘Are we gonna do it?!’ and he was like ‘I don’t know… I don’t know’. So I asked him again ‘Yo what’s up with that beat that ? is hot… yo what’s those records I wanna hook that beat up!’ And he was like ‘Aight ? it’. I was like ‘I’m gonna do that ? and then we can exchange, I’ll give you some ? ’. And he was like ‘Alright, cool’. That was the story… that’s why on it (“We Got The Jazz”) I said ‘Pete Rock for the beat ya don’t stop’. You know… because it was some exchange ? "
Large Pro put Pete on to the horns for "T.R.O.Y"..."Q-Tip:I mean it’s the same way Large Professor gave him permission… you know they swapped the records for “T.R.O.Y.”. That was Large Professor.
Large Pro:I remember seeing that Tom Scott [record] and taking a chance on it, and getting it home. I was stuck on that horn loop, though. I would loop that up and be stuck, just listen to that alone and try to filter it. There’s evidence. In the Slick Rick remix, which came out before. There is a little clip of the horn. That horn is from the Tom Scott [record]. It was just that “Troy” blew up so much! Pete just went in on Tom Scott, and I didn’t have any problem with it or anything like that. People knew that I was looping that up, so that’s where it probably came from – a peripheral kind of thing. People were like, “He bit this and that and that.” Pete did everything, he did all the programing, everything." -
Q-Tip remade the beat for "Jazz (We've Got)" after hearing it at Pete Rock's crib..."Pete Rock: Q-Tip came over one day and heard the beat playing and liked it. And I had the records sitting around because I had just made it, so the records were there and he saw what I used. I guess he liked it and went back and tried to re-create it and make it sound just like the way I did it. I had a few more elements in it. I had the same drums and the sample, and he actually did the beat the same way I did it. And he shouted me out [at the end of the song]."
Q- Tip:Yeah and this is what happened. We were at his crib in Mount Vernon and we were all supposed to rhyme over this beat… me, him and Large Professor. He was rockin’ it and I was just like ‘Are we gonna do it?!’ and he was like ‘I don’t know… I don’t know’. So I asked him again ‘Yo what’s up with that beat that ? is hot… yo what’s those records I wanna hook that beat up!’ And he was like ‘Aight ? it’. I was like ‘I’m gonna do that ? and then we can exchange, I’ll give you some ? ’. And he was like ‘Alright, cool’. That was the story… that’s why on it (“We Got The Jazz”) I said ‘Pete Rock for the beat ya don’t stop’. You know… because it was some exchange ? "
Large Pro put Pete on to the horns for "T.R.O.Y"..."Q-Tip:I mean it’s the same way Large Professor gave him permission… you know they swapped the records for “T.R.O.Y.”. That was Large Professor.
Large Pro:I remember seeing that Tom Scott [record] and taking a chance on it, and getting it home. I was stuck on that horn loop, though. I would loop that up and be stuck, just listen to that alone and try to filter it. There’s evidence. In the Slick Rick remix, which came out before. There is a little clip of the horn. That horn is from the Tom Scott [record]. It was just that “Troy” blew up so much! Pete just went in on Tom Scott, and I didn’t have any problem with it or anything like that. People knew that I was looping that up, so that’s where it probably came from – a peripheral kind of thing. People were like, “He bit this and that and that.” Pete did everything, he did all the programing, everything."
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any truth to bun recording murder in 1 take cuz he was mad they woke him out his sleep? lol
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Outkast-Elevators(Me & You)
well damn, Andre 3000 made this beatMr. DJ: "Andre 3000 actually did all of that. Me, Dre and Big all learned how to produce from Rico, Ray, and Pat [Organized Noize]. Cause when we first started doing the first album, we all used to just hang around the Dungeon at Rico's mom's house and watch them. They use to always be on the beat machines making the beats that OutKast eventually rapped to to make that first album Southernplayalistic. And we would just mimic ON.
"It was always cool to watch Organized Noize working on beats because they might have a blunt hanging out with the ashes falling on the beat machine and Ray would be turning them buttons and you'd just hear the 808s and the samples, all the different melodies and stuff, and that was, like, intriguing. That was how we learned how to produce. So when we finally got a little money, everybody bought music equipment and just started emulating Organized Noize.
"I started as the DJ for OutKast, and that's what I did for the first album. Towards the end of the first album, me, Dre and Big had a situation, and I stopped being the DJ and decided I was going to go and produce. And that's when I became an associate producer for Organized Noize. Later on, Big and Dre were like, 'Ay man, even though you're not DJing anymore, let's start a production company together.' Because at that point I had already produced that whole 8Ball & MJG album, In Our Lifetime Vol. 1, and some other stuff. So Big was just like, 'Man, we should just form a production company.' So me and OutKast formed a production company going into that second album, while we were still on the road. We called the company Earthtone III.
“'Elevators' was one of our songs produced for Earthtone III. I can remember Dre doing that beat, and we were actually on tour when he was working on it. The tour we were on was the Quad City Bass Tour, with the 69 Boyz and This & That. It was a summer tour. We had equipment hooked up on the tour bus, and Dre had his stuff hooked up in the back of the bus and we rode around with 'Elevators' for a long time—it was like a lot of little versions of it Dre kept playing on the bus. And when we got back to Atlanta, that was the first song that Earthtone III recorded ourselves, produced ourselves, and that was the start of us producing the rest of the albums. We kind of knew that 'Elevators' was going to be something special. It's not a super complicated beat, but it resonates. Sometimes less is more."
Rico Wade: "That's one thing I'll give Andre 3000 credit for: he was very very excited about pleasing us [Organized Noize] with his production. I expected everyone around us to know how to make beats. I was encouraging them, too. Sitting around watching Ray do that ? , you can't help but be inspired and motivated. Now how good you gon' be is the key. It never really mattered who was gon' do it, because I never really thought any of them was going to be better than Ray, and they still not. They just copied our style, and they got bigger hits than we got—well actually, they don't cause they ain't produced no 'Waterfalls.' They ain't produced no En Vogue 'What's It's Gonna Be.' The ? they did, though, helped out—because I probably would have never did a 'Ms. Jackson' for them.
"But I didn't feel no kind of way when they formed their own production group. If anything, with OutKast, I made them [Big and Dre] be partners [when I created OutKast], but I really saved them from where they are now, because Big and Dre had a little deep-down resentment towards each other, cause they had been working together for so long, like, 'I spent 20 years of my life with you.' I mean, Keith Richards talks about ? Jagger the same way. It's like having brothers, like, 'Damn, everywhere we go, we together all the time.' Eventually, that's going to get a little boring. You just don't want to see muthafuckas every day. So they got separate lives now. Andre got his own equipment, Big Boi got his own equipment, and DJ got his own equipment." -
Built 4 cuban linx wrote: »Read nas was supposed to be on biggies gimme da loot but heard the lyrics, tried to write, told ? he'll be back and in typical nasir Jones fashion never showed back up. So biggie ended up writing and recording the other part himself. I also remember that biggie then wanted to put him on machine gun funk, idk
Rap game reminds me of the ? game-nas
Wit your hat ? back talmbout the gats an ? in yo raps-big
Post tha link 2 your statement could sworn Big dissed nas on machinegun -
Peezy_Jenkins wrote: »any truth to bun recording murder in 1 take cuz he was mad they woke him out his sleep? lol
Yea Bun said he was asleep on the floor under some dj boards in the studio or some ? . Spit his verse and went right back to sleep.
There used to be an interview with sway where he tells the story but i just tried to find it and it looks like the Sway youtube page deleted a lot of old interviews -
UGK One Day & Murder
Was originally a Mr 3-2 ft ? C track but he didnt think it was good enough for his album (lol)
? took his throwaway for Riding ? . Bun didnt want to do it because he didnt want to rap about vunerable/sensitive subjects but ? convinced him. Lil Keke was lined up to lay a verse if Bun wasnt down.
In return for Bun agreeing he wanted ? to make an uptempo track he could rap his ass off to to showoff his skills. So ? made "Murder" and Bun recorded his verse in one take.
crazy cuz Bun killed both of em.....but 3-2 trashed it??????....thats crazy.....i know he was mainly on that hard ? tho
the story behind Big Pimpin was funny as hell....I aint gone run the whole ? but I remember them quoting ? saying he didnt like the beat "with them ? ass whistles" lmao
I remember Too Short saying that him and Bun had to convince ? to do Big Pimpin. He said them dudes in Texas was big Pac fans and around the time they had been hit up to do the song with Jay, Too Short said ? was like, "Man I ain't doin a song with nobody Tupac didn't like" -
Brenda's Got a Baby is based on a real story from a newspaper.
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Three 6 Mafia-Sippin On Some Sizzurp feat. UGK
Bun talked a lil about this on drink champs apparently“[Three 6 Mafia’s] ‘Sippin’ on [Some] Sizzurp’ was actually the first song from a group that UGK and Three Six Mafia was doing together,” Bun told hosts N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN. “We were going to be The Underground Mafia.” “I don’t know if too many people know that,” Bun B continued. “A couple of people might know that. ‘Like a ? ’ [was another]. ‘Sippin’ on Some Sizzurp’ was the record for their album and the song ‘Like a ? ’ was the song for our album. We did ’em Super Bowl weekend in Atlanta.”
“We never got that far into it because ? got locked up,” Bun said. “So, we never even got to finish the project. And then coming back home … Most people don’t know that the original version of ‘[Int’l] Player’s Anthem’ was us and Three 6 Mafia. So that’s like the return actually of us getting back to Underground Mafia music but that version wouldn’t clear.”
Juicy J- “What was so crazy about that song was when we went to go do that, when me and Paul came up with it, we had to drive down to Atlanta. They had this big snowstorm down there. I think there was something going down, I think it was Superbowl weekend or whatever. And man, we almost killed ourselves.
We was driving down the street and the car started spinning, because the roads were so icy, the car started spinning into the incoming lane. There was a big truck coming, a big rig almost hit us, and in just enough time, he maneuvered around us. Then when we got to ? C's house. ? C stayed on this big old hill. We had to literally almost get rope and try to hold each other's jackets—Bun B held my jacket, I held Paul's jacket, Paul held somebody else's jacket—we pulled each other up the hill. That's how slick the hill was.
So we went through a lot man to get that record done, man. But when we got into the studio, the magic happened.... Me and Paul always made beats together. So he'd do something, I'd do something, just come up with ideas and collaborate. That's just how we did it, you know. That's how we did it.” -
Who got the Silkk statement on JD when recording "Moving On"
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GHOSTFACE KILLAH'S IRONMAN ALBUM....
VOICE SOUNDED WEIRD THROUGHOUT THE ALBUM...
BC HIS MIC WAS DAMAGED IN RZA'S FLOOD... -
It's Mine By Mobb Deep
Prodigy: I’m sitting in the crib watching the Scarface movie again and I hear that part in the beginning where the boats are coming in from Cuba to Florida and I’m like, ‘? ! Why nobody ever took this part right here? These ? is stupid out here.’
”I ran to the studio again and said, ‘Hurry up son.’ [Havoc] sampled it and ? was like, ‘Oh my ? , these ? did it again" and I was like, ‘Yo man, Nas gotta get on this ? because the ? is too ill. This is one for Nas.’ We called him up and the ? said, ‘Hell yeah.’ ? heard the beat and went crazy. He was like, ‘Yo, this ? is ill right here.’
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TI- Top Back
That was Juvenile's song but Juvie didn't like all the horns/bells that Fresh put into the chorus part. Juvie clowned the beat so TI was in the studio was like "shid I'd rap over it"
At the beginning of that song, you hear TI state "Fresh let me show these ? what to do with one of your beats man"
That's where that line stems from, him and Juvie getting into it about the track.
Also, just a note, Baby passed up on T.I. when T.I got outta that LaFace deal (I may have the record label wrong) but after the I'm Serious album, Fresh pushed hard for Baby to sign T.I. but Baby didn't see it.
This is a really good interview, These cats really asked the right questions that we all wanted to know the answers to
He even played a track from off The Carter 5 and a track from Lloyd I wanna say
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jamalmohammadd wrote: »It's Mine By Mobb Deep
Prodigy: I’m sitting in the crib watching the Scarface movie again and I hear that part in the beginning where the boats are coming in from Cuba to Florida and I’m like, ‘? ! Why nobody ever took this part right here? These ? is stupid out here.’
”I ran to the studio again and said, ‘Hurry up son.’ [Havoc] sampled it and ? was like, ‘Oh my ? , these ? did it again" and I was like, ‘Yo man, Nas gotta get on this ? because the ? is too ill. This is one for Nas.’ We called him up and the ? said, ‘Hell yeah.’ ? heard the beat and went crazy. He was like, ‘Yo, this ? is ill right here.’
THIS IS TRUE...
SCARFACE INSPIRED ALOT OF MOBB BANGERS...
G.O.D. PT. 3 & WHEN U HEAR THE... -
DMX HAS BEEN DISSING JA RULE SINCE BEFORE HIS DEBUT...
THAT LEFT TITY ? FROM THE 2ND ALBUM WAS MADE FOR JA...
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goat thread ill contribute later
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DMX HAS BEEN DISSING JA RULE SINCE BEFORE HIS DEBUT...
THAT LEFT TITY ? FROM THE 2ND ALBUM WAS MADE FOR JA...
Ja used to be in Jadakiss left ? ? -
2Pac's "All About U" used to be a Dogg Pound track
He came outta jail, and took it
Same thing with "California Love", he took that one too.
All of All eyes on me was other death row rappers songs, thats how it came out so quick