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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