Loco-Motive feat. Large Professor (Produced by No I.D.)
Reach Out feat. Mary J. Blige (Produced by Salaam Remi, Rodney Jerkins, DJ Hot Day & Nas)
^It's good to see that Large Professor & DJ Hot Day made the album, Queens style. I'm looking forward to those songs and the last three on the...
Star Wars
Large Professor: “We did ‘Star Wars’ during the Stillmatic sessions. Then it got released on the 10th anniversary album of Illmatic. That was a real flavor joint. He was sitting there, and I played him that beat, like, ‘Yo, you gotta use this beat.’ And he wrote that write there on...
Stay Chisel
Large Professor: “We always joke around. Nas would be like, ‘You large professor face.’ We’d always bug out like that. So I know he got that ‘Stay Chisel’ title on some, ‘Yo, we gonna be sharp on this.’ That dude is very particular, very sharp. I’m like that with beats, but he’s...
Rewind
Large Professor: “Nas likes to build. The session is not like, ‘Let’s play the beat and knock this out.’ We’ll sit there and talk, for hours. We’ll be going through *#*%, and the times, and *#*% we don’t even know about, like Motown, and I’d bring in magazines with Diana Ross or...
You're Da Man
Large Professor: ““The album Nastradamus was before Stillmatic. And I was in those sessions. I went to those sessions, and that’s when I gave him the beat for ‘You’re Da Man.’ I threw the beat on, and we were in there rhyming with the hand-held, and just rockin’. I had totally...
One Plus One (1996)
Large Professor: “It was sad, man. It was sad for me. I kind of knew that they were getting ready to drop me. We were starting to go from different studio to different studio. They were like, ‘Well, maybe it’s the studio. Maybe it’s the engineer.’ But it was like, ‘Nah, I’m...
Understanding feat Biz Markie & AZ (1995) good read
Large Professor: “I was involved in an earlier version of [‘Life is Like a Dice Game’] where he didn’t actually name it ‘Dice Game.’ We did it over the same sample as Junior M.A.F.I.A.’s ‘Get Money,’ the original [version]. It was earlier...
It Ain't Hard To Tell
Large Professor: “That’s another song like ‘Barbeque’ that we had before, and then when it was album time, we had to redo it and get it right. [Using the Michael Jackson ‘Human Nature’ sample was smooth] because [they were both under] Columbia. It was kind of in-house...
One Time 4 Your Mind
Large Professor:“I did that in the studio right on the spot. Nas was starting to get into his groove. He was like, ‘Yo, I got some more time. Hook something up live.’ That’s why it’s as nonchalant as it is, because it was something extra. It’s not a concentrated joint. It’s...
Halftime
Large Professor: “That’s funny, because when I made that beat, Busta Rhymes wanted that beat, right after I made it. My house after a while became like a little hangout for dudes. Busta Rhymes, coming from Long Island, he would always pass through Queens and come to the crib. And that...
Large Professor: “I always had that drum loop, the ‘Nautilus’ drum loop. [People sampled that record a lot], but to be right there with it, and just get the drums out of it without all of the bells and all of that—at that time, it was amazing. Like, ‘Oh %%$%, you got just the drums out of...
Nas: “I wanted to make a street album with Marley Marl. I looked up to Marley as an inventor of so many styles of hip-hop music. I love what he did with Mama Said Knock You Out with LL Cool J. And being from the same hood, the second album had to be with Marley. So I started off with Marley...
By reading the comments I thought this was going to be the worst Nas song that I've ever heard, "Anybody Test" still remains number one. The verses and flow are on point, everything else sucks.
the beat is pure dookie and it's not produced by Salaam Remi
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