Ras Kass has opened up about his beef with The Alchemist, including him wanting to do bodily harm to the producer over the instrumental for Jadakiss’ 2001 hit single “We Gonna Make It.”
In a recent My Expert Opinion interview, the Soul on Ice rapper elaborated on their complicated relationship over the last 20 years.
Ras Kass started by saying the California producer “keep lying” and “changing the story” about what actually occurred with the high-energy instrumental that was sold to him for his “Home Sweet Home” track which appeared on his 2001 album, Van Gogh.
He then revealed that at one point, he was paying The Alchemist “$3,000 a beat,” because they were already cool and had an established bond.
After the hosts asked if Ras Kass talked to The LOX members about the famous instrumental being sold to them, he said that there was no problem with the Yonkers rappers at all.
Ras Kass continued by revealing that The Alchemist said he never paid him for the beat, which he disputed and said he could go retrieve the paperwork from Capitol Records to prove he did.
Once Matt Hoffa asked if he and The Alchemist squashed their beef, Ras Kass broke down where their relationship is as of today.
“We got cool for a while, then he bunnied out again,” he said. “And then he started telling that narrative again and my whole thing is, don’t tell the narrative, because it’s not true. Just say, ‘I did some shit, don’t want to go into it too much, but I’m grateful, and I learned something, but Ras handled his business,’ because he tried to make it sound like me or my company are bitter or mad at Jadakiss.”
He added: “Like, get out of here. I’m my own n-gga my G. I’m good at what I do. And I can still be fans with people. Trust me, if I went in a different way, he would’ve got killed. I’m more than sure his face would not look the same if I would’ve ceased and desisted that record.”
“We Gonna Make It,” from Jadakiss’ debut album Kiss tha Game Goodbye remains one of the most quintessential Hip Hop records to come out of the early 2000s.
Within the same interview, Ras also spoke about fumbling a Roc-A-Fella West deal with JAY-Z after throwing down too much brown liquor.
dawg, this interview is like 2 weeks old
..smh
The diss song Kiss Me that he made off of it was tighter to me anyway. The beat was okay, but neither song, Home Sweet Home or We Gonna Mke It, was that great. Ras did it better, but both songs were just a bunch of gibberish on the mike. I get where Ras is coming from because everybody knew this at the time what happened, but Alchemist has gotten in with bigger friends and career since and can rewrite history when it would be easy for him to own that he fucked up kind of like Ras did when he said he fucked up when Jay-Z was trying to co-sign him. But Ras has to know how it comes off after 20 years too, even though I know his personality, so he’s not going to let it go just over the principle, which is something I love about him but probably kept him from being a star. Kanye did the exact same thing to that Chicago rapper Payroll and sold a lot of those beats to Jay for the Blueprint, and no one cares about the back story. Dude died talking about it, and 99% of hip hop fans still don’t care.
You must listen to rap strictly in your house, or not be from the East Coast, because there’s no way you were outside around people and think We gon Make it isn’t one of the best hiphop songs of its time. It’s literally one of the best beats of all-time, Alchemist hasn’t made anything better since smh…
Jadakiss is bootay. Alchemist is a lame. Next.
Drunk has-been