Just Blaze & Young Guru talk Jay-Z, Dame Dash,The Blueprint, Higher, Ghostface, Busta Rhymes + More
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www.hardknock.tv Just Blaze and Young Guru sit down for an exclusive conversation on Hard Knock TV. The interview starts of with Young Guru asking Just Blaze about his new song Higher and about making transition from Hip Hop into EDM. Just Blaze says that he has always made electronic beats but that he didn't always have a place to release those beats which were often ahead of their times. Now that the genre lines are so blurred it is seen as more acceptable to listen to everything. As the conversation continues Just Blaze says that now he is "comfortable doing whatever it is I want...I'm comfortable playing what I want, I'm comfortable wearing what I want and just being me as an individual...not that I wasn't comfortable with who I am but I was definitely doing a keeping up with the Jones kind of thing...I had to have a fresher jersey than Dame but meanwhile Dame was getting them for free from Mitchell & Ness cause he is Dame Dash and I had to pay $500 for it and I had to this every day for years straight..."
Young Guru tells Just Blaze that one of the biggest things that he had learned from him was to construct the record in his head before he sampled the parts. Guru talks about the making of Jay-Z's Song Cry and that when he first heard the sample Just Blaze was going to use he thought it sounded off but that after Jay-Z laid his verse to the raw beat at night, they came back in the morning and it sounded like a masterpiece after Just Blaze was done building the track. That day Jay called 2-3 producers and told them that they were not on Just Blaze's level.
Just Blaze continues by telling Guru how Jay's Girls, Girls, Girls was originally intended for Ghostface and how Busta Rhymes originally heard You don't Know and he wanted it for himself.
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From Hip Hop Dx:
About twelve years ago, Jay-Z began his Blueprint series with Just Blaze and Young Guru among the trusted few by his side. Recently, Just and Gu sat down to talk about their work while making the disc with Blaze admitting that some of the beats Jay selected weren't necessarily made with Jigga in mind.
"The only joint that preexisted was 'Girls, Girls, Girls,' which I had been holding for Ghostface [Killah]. The protools session was called 'Ghostface.' And I remember, when I first started the first version of "U Don't Know," Busta [Rhymes] happened to come by and was like, 'I need this!' I was like, 'Let me get back. I'm not sure what I want to do.' I knew it had the potential to be something explosive."
The pair also discussed the making of "Song Cry," and how much the beat changed from when Jay-Z laid his vocals to when the finished track was revealed.
"You finished the first way and I was like, 'This dude is a genius,'" Young Guru said to Blaze. "I think Jay walked in, he heard the beat and he laid the rhyme that night just immediately. That's how fast we was doing the Blueprint joints. He laid the rhyme that night. And you worked on the record that night. I have never seen...How many chops was on that?" he asked.
"96," Blaze responded.
"It was in one form, a basic form for the emcee to say the rhyme," Young Guru continued. "Then, the long intro and all the different changes came so by the time Jay came back the next day, it completely sounded different. What's on the album is completely different from what he laid the rhyme to."
According to Just Blaze, Jay-Z took that moment to call several unnamed producers who he was "cool with" to tell them, "You're good but Just Blaze is a genius." Blaze says other producers were mad at him at the time for that. Young Guru added that Blaze's other beats for Blueprint were made that weekend.
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Its a trip to hear just blaze speak on his acalades and some of his work cause i don't really follow him, but i have followed his music. From the game, jay-z, nas, busta rhymes, i heard some of his work on production and he is one of the dopest producers
@pedrogates3189
5 жыл бұрын
night train73 just blaze had a mean run from 2000-04
I love the interviews yall do with the legends!!!
Love conversations like these...JustBlaze is one of the best to ever do it..
watched all these videos featuring them. I love it.
great conversation!
love this interview, two of my favorites in the game. Watch Guru on Pensado's Place, its dope too. Pensado needs to get Just also, that would be ill.
Great video. It's always engaging to see 2 masters discuss the craft of making music.
Not sure why I missed this one but glad too see it now. Excellent video indeed....
LOVE THIS
Theses are two of my favorite people in hip hop.
A great conversation between these two
WAITIN ON PART 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good interview
legendary ass people right here
Imagine Ghost on Girls, Girls, Girls... That's actually a perfect fit
Top notch stuff.
LOVE
Who can find me the instrumental being used in the end credits of the interview?
Nuff respect for these dudes. Soldiers
I grew up hearin just blaze beats
Ayoo.. lets get this official.. ghoatface on the girls beat.. now that he said it... it all makes sense.. in that supreme clientele era... awww man.. mix that album with that beat.. in my head.. shit just sound crazy... am I the only one that think like this?.. #AdHdcanrelate
Well done guys, YBE!!!
11:49 anyone know what the outro track is called
9.56 is the moment everybody looks for in life.
People are so stuck in box. If your a producer, producer everything. That how you last longer in the game. Timbo is a great example of that. Keep it up Just.
3:03 LOL @ dude walking in and straight out.
Imagine if all the sessions were recorded!
yes he does ook up more interviews by him not just on hard knock
Shout out Hard Knock TV... Keep em Coming Bro...You better then VLAD TV to Me
Just Blaze did U Don't Know, Song Cry & Breathe Easy (Lyrical Exercise) over a weekend!? Damn.
@devon8trillionaire
Жыл бұрын
Don't forget girls girls girls
Just Blaze!
Did I just hear someone giving a model tokens on MFC @ 5:22
Ghost on Girls! That would've been nice.
My GOODNESS hearing him speak is exhausting !
U Don't Know is the best beat on that album. That beat is FUCKIN RIDICULOUS. I was never big on "Song Cry". Too melodramatic and kinda ordinary as a beat. and regarding "Fire"... I'm 29 now. I remember when that track came out. First year university, clubbing a lot. And that shit used to KILL. I was addicted to that beat. And I love how funky and "hip hop" it was, unlike now where the drums/vibe aint hip hop.
I meant both of these dudes!!!
Menh I lived near Patterson ::) nj in Totowa. now check #Nunination
@mayrarojas3496
7 жыл бұрын
Nuni Senunica Paterson is spelled with one "t".
@rennierox listen to guru interview on combat jack show
PATERSON,n.j in the house hu hu peace peace !!!!!!!!
Stop putting ads in the middle of your vids. Either have them at the beginning or the end but having them in the middle ruins the flow of the video.
legends are speaking...dont interrupt
Theres a wealth of knowledge there with Rocafella
Didn't know 'You Don't Know' was meant for Busta. That could be one if the reasons Busta & Jay Had a scuffle before the release of the Blueprint album.
Paterson this Is us
Blaze said in a past interview that he doesn't want to speak about Jay Electronica anymore.
genius
👀
JUST BLAZE (JUST BLAZE VOICE) !
heck this out FRONTLINE-''TOYZ IN THE ATTIC''
not to cut you off...
Guru got a skinny neck lol gud interview tho! Legendary dudes
So Girls, Girls, Girls was originally for Ghostface. Wow. That would have been hot!
Jersery the fuck ma niggaz! Elizabeth eastwiick 908 represettin
Is he guru's son?
never realized how skinny just blaze was
No he's not Guru's son
Yeah girls girls would have been good for ghost!!
Just Blaze vs. Justice League 100 LIKES @DoubleK_EP
MEAN. But just imagine if Ghost had been on Girls and Busta had been on U Don't Know. Wow.
lol. JUST, you still talkin bout that damn sports jerseys shit?!?! LET. IT. GO. lol
Young Guru never speaks about his Wilmington Delaware roots.
Maybe he should get some theraflu lol
jUST Disrespectful lol
Some one tell me if braking music genders dont stop u from making more money.domi
this guy is killing hip hop! NOOOOOOOOOO He was the greatest of all time :(
hey Jazzy check #Nunination
damn...ghostface blew it. girls''''was meant for him???
I always thought just blaze was a white dude idk why
please god no
this dude make too many beats... haha his voice is leaving him.
Boring