Lenny Santiago, Vice President of A&R for Def Jam, had the privilege of witnessing Jay-Z and Kanye West record their new album Watch the Throne. Speaking with MTV News, Lenny S. explained that he specifically enjoyed watching the duo work with Pharrell Williams in the studio to lay down some music.
“It was real dope, about that picture and just about that day, period. It felt like old Roc-A-Fella, Baseline days and obviously Jay, Kanye, P came through,” he recalled. “At that time, they were in two different spaces, just on some… ‘Ye was just a producer at the time, wasn’t rapping yet. P on production as well. Now, ‘Ye being an artist, I was there, one of the A&Rs for Roc-A-Fella, Hip Hop, was there. […] That day alone felt real. I remember Jay and ‘Ye just making note of that.”
He also noted Hov’s unique writing method of constructing rhymes in his head while listening to a beat.
“A lot of times, when Jay writes or doesn’t write, that’s how he writes. With his arms on the board, bobbing his head,” he explained. “That’s literally Jay’s way of writing, which is so ill and dope if you ever have the honor and pleasure of being there. Witness that, and just nodding, grooving to the joint.”
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maybe if hov wrote down his rhymes he could come up with some better subject matter
NIGNOG HAS SPOKEN
Maybe if you thought a little harder about your choices, you could actually be a critic instead of blasting celebs on a website.
You know this is true when Kanye mutherfuckin West has better “lyrics” than you.
Kanye has better lyrics? LMAO! Listen to the album….Kanye is a good artist and I like most of his music but Jay raps circles around him on Watch the Throne. Yeezy is dope but Jay is another league…
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I was thinking the same thing about Wayne….shut your ass up!
It actually sickening how people atlk about Jay-Z what more can this man talk about. He talks about his life. this album is gonna be remembered as a classic
YOUR ALL DEAD TO ME!
The Bunch Of You YellowBelly Cowards!
This album is already shaping up to be one of my all-time favorites. I don’t think there is one bad song on the album and “Why I Love You” is INCREDIBLE
the only weak song on that album IMO is “Lift Off” Everything else had a place there and I throughly enjoyed it. The only downside besides Lift Off would have to be the 3 min silence at the begining of “Illest Muthafucka ALive” takes away from the flow of the album
Yeah i didnt like that silence either. dont know why they chose to do that, but that song is still crazy
ANYTHING you write down on paper…Comes from the MIND first.. Jay-z just has the raw ability to arrange it and memorize it all in his head…..
whats so amazing about his writing process??
Im pretty sure thats what most people do….i know I do.