Pete Rock Breaks Down: ?The Joy??Kanye West feat. Jay-Z, Kid Cudi

24 jan 2011, 03:09



While searching the web, I found an interesting discussion legendary beatmaker and producer, Pete Rock has with Vibe Magazine. Pete Rock breaks down "The Joy" featuring Jay-Z and Kid Cudi. The Mount Vernon native vividly recalls the whole studio experience of being in Hawaii with West.[/p]This song happened through a good friend of mine named Barry, who used to bodyguard for Kanye. He was like, ?Yo, Kanye is looking for you.? I got in touch with him and Kanye says he wants to bring me to Hawaii to work on an album. So I went out there and I had the nice suite. The hotel was beautiful?Kanye took care of me. We got to the studio and we started working on stuff. He played me ?Runaway? and was like, ?Yo, look?I took your drums from ?Mecca & The Soul Brother.? It was a nice way he put it together. I started playing him beats and the ones he liked he put them to the side, and the Curtis Mayfield joint was one of them.[/p]I used to love that song as a kid (Mayfield?s ?The Makings of You?). I also liked Gladys Knight?s version. But I never heard the live version of it. So when I heard the live one with Curtis and the bass player going crazy I was like, ?Oh shit?.let me fuck with this!? I was just playing around and experimenting. I was just going to do one part of the sample, but when I heard how Curtis sounded singing it I just said, ?You know what? Fuck that?? I put the vocals on it?and that shit was butter.[/p]Now what really fucked me up was Jay-Z being on it. I?m going to tell everybody right now. I had no clue that Kanye was going to do that. Because the way we were working on the song it was just him on it. And I jumped on it and did my adlibs. Then my man Young Guru called me and was like, ?Yo Pete?I got a surprise for you.? He played it for me over the phone. At first I couldn?t hear Jay?s voice too good. Guru is like, ?You heard it?? I?m like, ?Nah..? I was driving so I didn?t want to get pulled over by the cops so I just stopped the car. I heard Jay?s verse and I almost had a heart attack [laughs]! I was like, ?Is that fucking Jay-Z??? Finally, I can?t believe it.? But then when ?The Joy? didn?t come out on Kanye?s album people on Twitter and Faceback were like they brought his album because they thought it was going to be on there. But hey?maybe it will be on Watch The Throne.?[/p]via: Vibe Magazine[/p] Related posts [VIDEO] Kanye West?s Good Fridays & Swizz Beatz Monster Mondays Analyzed (December 24, 2010)">[VIDEO] Kanye West?s Good Fridays & Swizz Beatz Monster Mondays Analyzed (0) Yung Berg Accuses Kanye of Stealing (December 3, 2010)">Yung Berg Accuses Kanye of Stealing (0) WILL THE REAL KANYE WEST PLEASE STAND UP (December 5, 2008)">WILL THE REAL KANYE WEST PLEASE STAND UP (0) Single Cover: Kanye West x Jay-Z "H.A.M." (January 7, 2011)">Single Cover: Kanye West x Jay-Z "H.A.M." (1) Russell Simmons Open Letter To Kanye West (November 13, 2010)">Russell Simmons Open Letter To Kanye West (2)

Nia Long, FREE & More Hit Up ?MOOZ-LUM? NYC Screening [PICS]

21 jan 2011, 19:54



[/p]Nia Long, star of the upcoming film MOOZ-LUM, hit up a private media screening of the indie flick last night at the Eventi Hotel in New York City. TV/radio personality FREE moderated the post-screening discussion which featured MOOZ-LUM writer/director Qasim ?Q? Basir and producer Dana Offenbach. Evan Ross, Danny Glover, Roger Guenveur Smith and Dorian Missick also star in the film which opens in theaters February 11, 2011. [/p]


For more information, visit www.moozlumthemovie.com

Photos by Stephen Knight

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GunPlay Supports Luke for Mayor of Miami

21 jan 2011, 14:24



GunPlay of Triple C throws his support behind rapper Luke for Mayor of Miami.

In Miami On The set of DJ Khaled's " Welcome To My Hood " Video Shoot, featuring Rick Ross, Plies, T-Pain & Lil Wayne. Futuristic Blogger Talks to Def Jam/Maybach Music Artist " Gunplay " About Uncle Luke's new ambitions to become Miami Next Mayor.

via: HipHopNew24-7

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