In the past year, 25-year old rapper King Mez has spent a lot of time in the studio assisting the likes of Puff Daddy, Dr. Dre and more recently Kanye West during the making of The Life of Pablo whom he shared some worthy enough advice for the Chicago rapper to jot down.
“Kanye made College Dropout and created a concept and he shined in his own world,” the North Carolina emcee says in an exclusive interview with Greenlabel. “If you put him on somebody else’s song, he’ll be good, but not amazing like how he is in his world. Me and Kanye were in the studio talking about this, and when I said it to him, he was taken aback. He was like, ‘Wow, I’m about to write that down.’”
The rapper born Morris W. Ricks II, also helped guide Dr. Dre‘s vocals on Compton and even recommended the Grammy winning-producer drop the project’s original R. Kelly-featured intro.
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Although he’s spent plenty of time with Dre, Mez says he still hasn’t been able to get the Aftermath Entertainment founder to sign a copy of Comptonciting that since he was wrote a lot of the record he was just as valuable as everyone else.
“Honestly, I’ve been trying to get him to sign my Compton album so I can hang it on the wall, and he’ll go ‘I don’t even know what to say to you that would make sense. You were so helpful,'” says the Long Live The King rapper.
King Mez is set to release an EP sometime in late February featuring production from DJ Dahi and Cardo.
