Yo, Timbo is one TALENTED muthafucker. Not only did he do a LIVE, muthafuckin L-I-V-E, LIVE remix to Nigga’s In Paris, but this muthafucka did it beat boxing off the dome. I really wish those rumors of a Dre/Timbo compilation album were true. Can you imagine Kendrick Lamar, Slim Tha Mobster, Snoop, Dre, Justin Timberlake, Em, Slaughterhouse, all going in over Timbo/Dre beats. Bananas, the world couldn’t take that much heat, that shit’s WMDs rightcha. Still not a believe after watching this video of Timbo’s talent, go back and listen to FutureSex/LoveSounds. That shit STILL sounds fresh and new today.
I’m a little jealous of Hov right now. Not because he is worth a bijillion dollars, goes on tour with Ye, is a pioneer in my culture, is the GOD MC, or because he is married to one of the most beautiful women in the world. Nah, I’m jealous because he is married to chick who isn’t afraid to sing “whassup whassup whassup mafucka, where my money at!!” That is probably one of my favorite Jay verses off WTT, and something a line I have been known to say in real life a few times this past fall. Damn, do your thing Hov. Congrats on the baby.
“Kanye reached out to me and I said, ‘Of course’ I was completely flattered when they asked if they could sample me into the song … and when I heard it for the first time, I just started to laugh because it felt so surreal. But I really did like the song.
We were trying to film a piece that they would use on the video boards of their concert, but haven’t gotten it together — and the whole process has opened his eyes to an entirely new career opportunity: Being the go-to sample guy on the hip hop circuit. I think [something from] ‘Step Brothers’ would be good [to use in a song]. Or the Woody Allen movie I did, ‘Melinda and Melinda.’
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Will Ferrell On Being Sampled on The Throne’s ‘N*gga’s In Paris’
Next time I see Will, I’m gonna let him know how much that sample really brought the song together and I how I hope someone DOES sample Step Brothers for a Ghostface song because that shit would be cray.
Occupy All Streets
I’ll be honest, that t-shirt is pretty hot. I’d cop it if I saw it at the store. Sadly, I am sure they are going for $150-200 at the WTT tour. Don’t quote me, but come on, Jay doesn’t rock anything affordable to the 99%. Shit I wouldn’t either if I was Jay. Would you?
Can’t make it to the Watch The Throne tour because you aren’t part of the 1% and can’t afford $250 nose bleed seat (singular), then download the mixtape of their performance from Atlanta.
I mean, Kanye’s a genius—I love the dude—but Watch The Throne should have been Nas and Jay. Niggas would still be talking about that even if the album was wack. I’m not taking shit away from ‘Ye. Kanye and RZA should go in maybe. Maybe Kanye and Dr. Dre. But as far as emcees, Nas and Jay.
-Method Man
I couldn’t agree more with Meth. I have my issues with WTT. I don’t think it’s great. I’m wasn’t excited with the concepts, the rhymes, a lot of the beat selections, I thought it was ok. But Meth is beyond right. ‘Ye should have taken a step back, got behind the boards and produced the shit out that album for Nas and Jay. We’ve heard Jay over Yeezy tracks, but Nas. Damn, that shit cray. Oh well, maybe one day we can get a Nas/Jay album filled with subliminal shots between the two, Jay flexing his lyrical muscle and Nas stealing some of that thunder with his verses.
And Ye SHOULD do an album with RZA. So Appalled was awesome, can you imagine a whole album with that sound? RZA pulls some of the crazies fucking samples and Ye knows how to takes those samples and turn them into hits. No one does it better than those two….well Dre, and as much as I would love to hear a Dre/Ye record. At this point, I’d be happy to just hear some 5 year old/new Detox rejected track Dre deemed was not good enough for Detox, so expecting him to make time to do a whole album with Ye is pipe dream.
RZA/Ye & Nas/Jay. Someone make that shit happen. Obama give 900 Million dollars to help stimulate the economy. I’d make that shit a reality, be crowned the savoir of hip hop, then celebrate by spending 5 nights 200 million dollars in the swankiest strip club in Vegas. The Joe Garcia Stimulus Package.
“I haven’t heard the album. I’ll probably never hear the album”
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Lil Wayne on the Watch The Throne album.
What?! That shit cray, that shit cray. That. Shit. Cray. YMCMB is going gorilla.
To eliminate such risks, Jay-Z and West implemented an Internet-free recording space. While travel schedules had reduced much of the creation of “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” to a series of emailed session tracks, Watch the Throne was recorded in-person in makeshift setups. Tracks were saved directly to password-protected external hard drives that remained locked in Goldstein’s Pelican briefcase. At no point during the album’s creation did works-in-progress reside on laptop hard drives.
“The boss asked for it not to be leaked,” says Kilhoffer, referring to West, “so there you go.” Kilhoffer, who received Grammy Awards for his work on West’s “Graduation” and John Legend’s “Get Lifted,” now travels with hard drives that can only be accessed by biometric fingerprint readers.
An important byproduct to this type of recording process, which is something I think a majority of hip hop albums have been lacking, is that like most classic hip hop albums artists get to be in the environment as they recording. That means if Jay records first, then Ye comes through and kills his verse while jay is there, then jay comes back and rerecords his verse trying to outdo Ye and so forth and so on until you get a fucking classic record.
I remember hearing about the recording process of Brooklyn’s Finest and hearing about BIG and Jay rapping their verses to each other. Getting help from one another on how to improve the others verse, taking a smoke break to gather their thoughts then coming back into the studio and killing the track. These types of stories were heard a lot regarding the records of such classics like, The Chronic, 36 Chambers, Reasonable Doubt, Midnight Marauders, etc etc.
Artists need to go back into the studio with a good producer, stop sending shit over the internet, and start making classic timeless recorders again. Except for Dre, that muthafucker is done with music.
So the internets have been going wild about Ye’s use of the word Cray (short for crazy, obvs) in the song ‘Niggas In Paris’. Yo Internets, Ye especially, that shit aint new, NOR is it cool, my girl Currie’s (shout out Carrie, what up!) been on that shit for a few years, much to my dismay. That shit wasn’t cool when Currie first used it, still isn’t cool now that Ye and most of hip hop is using it. Even though I gotta give it up to Currie, she was way ahead of the game on the use of word cray. At the end of the day I’ll be LOLing as all these new kids go about dropping cray and acting like it’s a new slang Ye dropped into the lexicon. Of course I’ll know the truth. Don’t believe Currie was using cray way back in the day. Click Here. 2009 son.
The Throne - Otis
This is one of my favorite Hip Hop videos in a while. It represents everything everyone was EXPECTING from the Watch The Throne album. It’s fun, it has that back and forth dynamic we used to see a lot in Wu-Tang/Notorious BIG videos and songs. When one verse ends the next guy sneaks right up and keeps the song moving. These guys made it look flawless and fun in this video. Honestly, THIS is what the album should have been. Production from Yeezy with both artists just having a good time and keeping shit Hip Hop. Shout out Spike Jonze, always keeping it thrill and the homie Aziz, that cameo is hilarious slime.
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