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From that point, the song never stands still-it has the breathless momentum of the fleeing friend Jada instructs, at the end of its first verse, to pass him a dirty gun. The first three words hit with the kick drums. You’ll find people who argue for either Pac’s opening ad-lib or the beginning of his verse proper on “ Hit ’Em Up” there are those who might take Chuck D’s “I got a letter from the government, the other day” from “ Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos” or even Pimp C’s “The game’s fucked up, I ain’t got no friends” from “ Akickdoe!” There are throw pillows embroidered with “ It was all a dream.” But the most unforgettable opening of a rap song ever committed to wax is on that Alchemist-produced song, Jadakiss’s “ We Gonna Make It”: How Clipse and the Neptunes Made a Classic With ‘Lord Willin’’ Kanye West Resurrected a Retired Rap Group. And yet this is one of those rare, serpentine industry tales where the beat ends up exactly where it should.
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There are innumerable versions of this story, where the beat eventually gets buried deep on an album by a rapper who has it foisted on them by an A&R, or another producer gets to the same sample while everyone is waiting around, shuffling buyout agreements. But when that LP got held up during the Priority-Capitol merger, Alchemist moved on-this led to a much-publicized feud between the two that was later papered over. (When the beat got passed to Millennium Thug, the producer backed out.) Ras Kass, who was working on what would have been his third album, the famously shelved Van Gogh, actually recorded to it. There was the session where he actually tracked it for Nas, who was then working on the QB’s Finest compilation, and led Alchemist to believe it would be one of his solo songs on that record. There was the time at Baseline when he played it for Jay-Z. But when Preemo gave the beat his highest compliment-“Yeah, I can rap to this”-Alchemist knew it was time to shop it. So when DJ Premier dropped by to hear what the younger producer was working on, Alchemist wasn’t sure how the legend would react. He didn’t think his flip was perfect: The handclaps he’d added weren’t exactly right. When your crew is signing veteran acts, that might be a sign your crew is falling off.Īlso check out Jadakiss on Complex TV's Combat Jack Show below.A little over 20 years ago, Alchemist, the Beverly Hills–bred producer who at that point was best known for his work with Dilated Peoples and Mobb Deep, began chopping up the break that comes three and a half minutes into a Samuel Jonathan Johnson song from 1978. To be fair-to hear Prodigy tell it in his book, My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy-the move worked out for them financially, they made more money with G-Unit than in any other point in their career. They ended up releasing the worst album of their career on G-Unit, 2006's Blood Money, and haven't released an album since. Plus, it ended up being a terrible move for one of rap's all time great duos, Mobb Deep. That infamous sprawling XXL G-Unit cover that had way too many people on it was supposed to look like they were an untouchable empire, but in reality they were overextended and beginning to crumble. We're getting flashbacks of G-Unit signing Mobb Deep and M.O.P., signings which more or less signaled the end of the Unit's reign.
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This doesn't sound like a good move for MMG or The LOX.