News 02/11/08 - Jake One Talks About Working With G-Unit

BlackBauer · 02-11-2008, 03:04 PM

Dubcnn: I believe you had a beat on the first G-Unit album before you hooked up with Sha Money, how did that happen?

That happened through this dude Fusion who I knew, he was on tour with them somehow, and he had slid them a beat, and I didn't believe that shit was real until the last second when they sent me a contract! That was the first time I had a record come out that was everywhere. It sold like 3 million or whatever, and it's cool to be a part of something like that, to know that you're in every store, in every car, that was a dope experience.

Dubcnn: You had two beats on 50 Cent's "Curtis" album, you had a track on the Get Rich Or Die Trying soundtrack and on Young Buck's album, did you produce those songs in the studio with the artists or did they take the beats off beat-cds? How was it working with the G-Unit camp?

I haven't worked with 50 Cent hands on, but me and Buck have a real good relationship, I did a few joints on "Buck The World", we recorded a lot more than that, I got to go in there and hang with him he's a entertaining dude. When he first met me he couldn't believe that was me making the music! Like "Damn, I've been listening to your shit, I can't believe that's you!" It's been great for me, I honestly didn't think I would be part of something that big ever, so it's been cool to be a part of the wave.

It's kind of weird, because I think people have a lot of misconceptions about what [G-Unit] do musically. I think once your successful on the level of 50 Cent, people are just gonna have a problem with you. I kind of had mixed emotions about how my work with them would be received, cause depending on who's hands it gets to, people would probably be like it but be like "Fuck 50 Cent!" just on GP because they think it's too popular or some shit.

But I've done records with them that are harder underground records than a lot of this underground bullshit! It's crazy to me, cause they can put the shit out on that level, and make a real rap record like that! At least the joints I do, I'm not giving them anything remotely pop. So it's cool, we had a video for "Buck The World", that was dope to see that, we had another video for the Hot Rod record I did with Mary J. Blige...

Dubcnn: Everybody was saying Dr. Dre produced that joint when it came out. It took a minute for them realize that wasn't Dre.

Yeah! That was actually a Bishop Lamont record at first! It was a record called "Fuck Yo Couch", and it was a dope record too, I got it somewhere! They didn't pull the trigger on handling the business on it, so Fif' ended up taking the beat and making Hot Rod get on it and putting Mary J. on it, so... I was hearing that beat a lot of strange places, a lot of people didn't react that well to the song but they liked the beat.

Dubcnn: Yeah, the whole thing was the beat.

I kind of feel like it was dope, if it would have been the right song, it could have been a hit. But when I look at it, I don't really make hit songs, that's not what I do. I might try to do some in the future just to see if I can do it, but up to now, that hasn't been my intention when I make a beat, like "Ah, I gotta make a beat for the clubs, I gotta make the girls dance." I'm literally just trying to make something that I think is good. So it was crazy that I ended up having two singles like that. And I almost had a single off the Mary J. song on the "Curtis" album. So I guess in the end, if it's good music people are going to ignore all the other shit.

___

dubcnn

G UNIT WHITE SOLDIER · 02-11-2008, 03:33 PM

good read mayne!!!

True Ronald · 02-11-2008, 03:37 PM

lol @ the beat being good but the song being bad because hot rod was on it.

And everyone who was saying that it was a dre beat as recently as last week are really pwnt right now.

ns_diplomat · 02-11-2008, 03:48 PM

LMFAO @ dissing HOT ROD LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tha Unit On Top · 02-11-2008, 03:59 PM

That shit was known like a week after it came ou that Jake One did it, some people said it was co produced by Dre. Anyway, that song was hot, yeah it didnt pop off probably cause Hot Rod wasnt known, but if 50 did that song with Marey, could have been a hit. Anyway, Jake One is dope, he one of the best producers that coming up man, I no he been around for a while, but he is starting to get his shine. But its cause he hasnt done a mega hit yet, so thats why he aint a supder producer yet, but his beats are hot.

True Ronald · 02-11-2008, 04:01 PM

^
no I just thought it was whack. It was around the time Hands up and do it myself were around so don't think I am hating on him just because he's g-unit.

I honestly thought the BWS version of Be easy was better. The video to "be easy" made it seem even worse.

bagaric1 · 02-11-2008, 04:02 PM

lol at this fool for dissin hot rod, and the beat he did was clearly swaggin dre style with that piano, and other part that sounds different. which beat did he produced for the unit?

True Ronald · 02-11-2008, 04:14 PM

^lol @ swagga jacking dre when dre has a lawsuit against him every year for stealing music.

Tha Unit On Top · 02-11-2008, 04:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bagaric1

lol at this fool for dissin hot rod, and the beat he did was clearly swaggin dre style with that piano, and other part that sounds different. which beat did he produced for the unit?

He produced:

Better Ask Somebody off Beg For Mercy along with Fusion.
I Dont Know Officer off GRODT soundtrack
Movin On Up, All Of Me off Curtis
Buck The World, Clean Up Man off Buck the World
Be Easy Hot Rod

BlackBauer · 02-11-2008, 04:20 PM

Jake One is one of the best producers out there period. Every smart cat wants his beats for an album. And be easy wasnt that bad, maybe not a single worthy material but it was aight.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tha Unit On Top

He produced:
I Dont Know Officer off GRODT soundtrack

nuff said

Tha Unit On Top · 02-11-2008, 04:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlackBauer

Jake One is one of the best producers out there period. Every smart cat wants his beats for an album. And be easy wasnt that bad, maybe not a single worthy material but it was aight.

Tru dat, but I think doesnt have that status yet because he doesn have that hit song, I mean his beats are hot, I just posted some of his shit he did, all of them are hot beats, hot songs, but he doesn have that mega chart topping huge hit, but he is one of the top producers coming up. Once he gets that big time chart topping hit, thats when he will get the shine, but to do that you normally have to make a pop type song, and he doesnt do alot of those beats, you dont see grimey hard beats which are usually hard songs be chart toppers. But right now, his shit is hot, he keeps doing what he is doing and shit.

Tha Unit On Top · 02-11-2008, 04:55 PM

Why didnt you post the whole interview? Anyway, he says he has an album coming out around summertime, it will have Prodigy, Alchemist, Buck, Little Brother, MOP, Freeway, MF Doom, De La Soul, Bishop Lamont, he said he is mixing the album now.

gunup21 · 02-12-2008, 12:09 AM

propz on this

igotmadstalkers · 02-12-2008, 02:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bagaric1

lol at this fool for dissin hot rod, and the beat he did was clearly swaggin dre style with that piano, and other part that sounds different. which beat did he produced for the unit?

jake one is original.
he did It's Over for Freeway, Buck the World for young buck, I Don't Know Officer by 50, Prodigy, mase & spider loc, Movin on Up by 50 cent & All of Me by 50 cent.

seattle represent !!!

get Vitamin D on the phone 2!

dbone609style · 02-12-2008, 03:59 AM

props...be easy was good but it got old fast, hot rods songs get old fast

bagaric1 · 02-12-2008, 04:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by igotmadstalkers

fuck u dumbass not knowing jake one is original.
!

check my beats out
but I know you gonna shit on them, but if 50 or em or whoever would spit over them than you could see what the beat is like, cause beat itself is nothing till sombody rap on it. But youll see it aint hard to come up with original shit, I was sayin fuck that fool for dissin hot rod, you cant do him like that

igotmadstalkers · 02-12-2008, 05:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bagaric1

check my beats out
but I know you gonna shit on them, but if 50 or em or whoever would spit over them than you could see what the beat is like, cause beat itself is nothing till sombody rap on it. But youll see it aint hard to come up with original shit, I was sayin fuck that fool for dissin hot rod, you cant do him like that

there aight man...i just got like that cuz of seattle pride...u know we dont get much hip hop in this area...sir mix-a-lot is the GOAT tho

BlackBauer · 02-12-2008, 02:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tha Unit On Top

Tru dat, but I think doesnt have that status yet because he doesn have that hit song, I mean his beats are hot, I just posted some of his shit he did, all of them are hot beats, hot songs, but he doesn have that mega chart topping huge hit, but he is one of the top producers coming up. Once he gets that big time chart topping hit, thats when he will get the shine, but to do that you normally have to make a pop type song, and he doesnt do alot of those beats, you dont see grimey hard beats which are usually hard songs be chart toppers. But right now, his shit is hot, he keeps doing what he is doing and shit.

well actually I think hes good off without producing any chart breaking single cuz the general public doesn't have interest on who made the beat for their favourite song..

True Ronald · 02-12-2008, 04:00 PM

^
look at the name recognition Timbaland,Swizz Beatz, Scott Storch, Alchemist, DJ Premier, Dr Dre, Jermaine Dupri, Kanye West, The neptunes, Heatmakers, etc have.

People know producers

Ether Boii · 02-12-2008, 04:37 PM

Propzzz...Jake One Iz a Nice Producer

BlackBauer · 02-12-2008, 04:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by True Sinister

^
look at the name recognition Timbaland,Swizz Beatz, Scott Storch, Alchemist, DJ Premier, Dr Dre, Jermaine Dupri, Kanye West, The neptunes, Heatmakers, etc have.

People know producers

only ones that are known to general public as top producers..

*50*CENT*WIFE* · 02-12-2008, 07:15 PM

Jakeone Is Pretty Good :)

02-11-2008, 03:04 PM	#1
BlackBauer Veteran Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Europe Posts: 8,107 Repped: 3,713 Repped 9,645 Times in 708 Posts Neg Reps: 88 Neg Repped at 30 Times in 24 Posts	02/11/08 - Jake One Talks About Working With G-Unit 02/11/08 - Jake One Talks About Working With G-Unit Dubcnn: I believe you had a beat on the first G-Unit album before you hooked up with Sha Money, how did that happen? That happened through this dude Fusion who I knew, he was on tour with them somehow, and he had slid them a beat, and I didn't believe that shit was real until the last second when they sent me a contract! That was the first time I had a record come out that was everywhere. It sold like 3 million or whatever, and it's cool to be a part of something like that, to know that you're in every store, in every car, that was a dope experience. Dubcnn: You had two beats on 50 Cent's "Curtis" album, you had a track on the Get Rich Or Die Trying soundtrack and on Young Buck's album, did you produce those songs in the studio with the artists or did they take the beats off beat-cds? How was it working with the G-Unit camp? I haven't worked with 50 Cent hands on, but me and Buck have a real good relationship, I did a few joints on "Buck The World", we recorded a lot more than that, I got to go in there and hang with him he's a entertaining dude. When he first met me he couldn't believe that was me making the music! Like "Damn, I've been listening to your shit, I can't believe that's you!" It's been great for me, I honestly didn't think I would be part of something that big ever, so it's been cool to be a part of the wave. It's kind of weird, because I think people have a lot of misconceptions about what [G-Unit] do musically. I think once your successful on the level of 50 Cent, people are just gonna have a problem with you. I kind of had mixed emotions about how my work with them would be received, cause depending on who's hands it gets to, people would probably be like it but be like "Fuck 50 Cent!" just on GP because they think it's too popular or some shit. But I've done records with them that are harder underground records than a lot of this underground bullshit! It's crazy to me, cause they can put the shit out on that level, and make a real rap record like that! At least the joints I do, I'm not giving them anything remotely pop. So it's cool, we had a video for "Buck The World", that was dope to see that, we had another video for the Hot Rod record I did with Mary J. Blige... Dubcnn: Everybody was saying Dr. Dre produced that joint when it came out. It took a minute for them realize that wasn't Dre. Yeah! That was actually a Bishop Lamont record at first! It was a record called "Fuck Yo Couch", and it was a dope record too, I got it somewhere! They didn't pull the trigger on handling the business on it, so Fif' ended up taking the beat and making Hot Rod get on it and putting Mary J. on it, so... I was hearing that beat a lot of strange places, a lot of people didn't react that well to the song but they liked the beat. Dubcnn: Yeah, the whole thing was the beat. I kind of feel like it was dope, if it would have been the right song, it could have been a hit. But when I look at it, I don't really make hit songs, that's not what I do. I might try to do some in the future just to see if I can do it, but up to now, that hasn't been my intention when I make a beat, like "Ah, I gotta make a beat for the clubs, I gotta make the girls dance." I'm literally just trying to make something that I think is good. So it was crazy that I ended up having two singles like that. And I almost had a single off the Mary J. song on the "Curtis" album. So I guess in the end, if it's good music people are going to ignore all the other shit. ___ dubcnn

02-11-2008, 03:37 PM	#3
True Ronald Hip Hop Almanac Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 3,020 Repped: 193 Repped 355 Times in 65 Posts Neg Reps: 25 Neg Repped at 39 Times in 26 Posts	lol @ the beat being good but the song being bad because hot rod was on it. And everyone who was saying that it was a dre beat as recently as last week are really pwnt right now. __________________ True Sinister's take on Keyshia Cole "gap teeth in your mouth so my dick's got to fit"

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ns_diplomat Reppin' 514 Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: 514 - MTL - 514 Posts: 14,949 Repped: 664 Repped 1,324 Times in 538 Posts Neg Reps: 42 Neg Repped at 76 Times in 61 Posts	LMFAO @ dissing HOT ROD LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! __________________ G-Unit/Shady/Aftermath!! "Shout out to all the people in Montreal - Montreal is real hood. Real gangsta out there." - Juelz Santana

02-11-2008, 04:01 PM	#6
True Ronald Hip Hop Almanac Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 3,020 Repped: 193 Repped 355 Times in 65 Posts Neg Reps: 25 Neg Repped at 39 Times in 26 Posts	^ no I just thought it was whack. It was around the time Hands up and do it myself were around so don't think I am hating on him just because he's g-unit. I honestly thought the BWS version of Be easy was better. The video to "be easy" made it seem even worse. __________________ True Sinister's take on Keyshia Cole "gap teeth in your mouth so my dick's got to fit"

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bagaric1 stranger Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: LJ Posts: 3,351 Repped: 1,925 Repped 2,023 Times in 227 Posts Neg Reps: 12 Neg Repped at 0 Times in 0 Posts	lol at this fool for dissin hot rod, and the beat he did was clearly swaggin dre style with that piano, and other part that sounds different. which beat did he produced for the unit? __________________ I love counting dirty doe, I might never see 30 tho.

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Tha Unit On Top BISD November 23rd Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: New Jersey Posts: 5,196 Repped: 640 Repped 2,457 Times in 353 Posts Neg Reps: 78 Neg Repped at 123 Times in 85 Posts	That shit was known like a week after it came ou that Jake One did it, some people said it was co produced by Dre. Anyway, that song was hot, yeah it didnt pop off probably cause Hot Rod wasnt known, but if 50 did that song with Marey, could have been a hit. Anyway, Jake One is dope, he one of the best producers that coming up man, I no he been around for a while, but he is starting to get his shine. But its cause he hasnt done a mega hit yet, so thats why he aint a supder producer yet, but his beats are hot.

02-11-2008, 04:14 PM	#8
True Ronald Hip Hop Almanac Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 3,020 Repped: 193 Repped 355 Times in 65 Posts Neg Reps: 25 Neg Repped at 39 Times in 26 Posts	^lol @ swagga jacking dre when dre has a lawsuit against him every year for stealing music. __________________ True Sinister's take on Keyshia Cole "gap teeth in your mouth so my dick's got to fit"

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Tha Unit On Top BISD November 23rd Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: New Jersey Posts: 5,196 Repped: 640 Repped 2,457 Times in 353 Posts Neg Reps: 78 Neg Repped at 123 Times in 85 Posts	Why didnt you post the whole interview? Anyway, he says he has an album coming out around summertime, it will have Prodigy, Alchemist, Buck, Little Brother, MOP, Freeway, MF Doom, De La Soul, Bishop Lamont, he said he is mixing the album now.

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gunup21 Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 562 Repped: 0 Repped 12 Times in 11 Posts Neg Reps: 0 Neg Repped at 5 Times in 4 Posts	propz on this

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True Ronald Hip Hop Almanac Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 3,020 Repped: 193 Repped 355 Times in 65 Posts Neg Reps: 25 Neg Repped at 39 Times in 26 Posts	^ look at the name recognition Timbaland,Swizz Beatz, Scott Storch, Alchemist, DJ Premier, Dr Dre, Jermaine Dupri, Kanye West, The neptunes, Heatmakers, etc have. People know producers __________________ True Sinister's take on Keyshia Cole "gap teeth in your mouth so my dick's got to fit"

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