Ras Kass has reflected on some of his past mistakes, with one of his biggest being a fumbled Roc-A-Fella West deal that was down to too much brown liquor and not enough forgiveness from JAY-Z.
In a new My Expert Opinion interview, which dropped on Friday (June 30), the Soul on Ice rapper told the host about the “Roc-A-Fella West Coast” proposition, which was happening at a time when many labels were having different “divisions” of their labels based on location.
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“Roc-A-Fella West Coast,” co-host Mr. Mecc said, addressing some of the stories he’d heard Ras Kass had been involved in. “Who even knew that was a thing? I never heard of that shit before until I spoke to him.” The West Coast rapper then explained what happened.
“I was brought out, and that was kind of the idea, you know — to bring the West Coast out,” Ras Kass said. “So I stayed at State Street — at Jay’s house in downtown Brooklyn — so I came out for a summer and started recording with Jaz-O. […] I ended up going back to L.A. and just… time changed, you know what I’m saying?”
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He went on: “I think I was picking the wrong production, to be honest, at the time. One time, me and Jay went to the club together. And I got too drunk — back then, I was drinking Hennessy — and I was like, yo, we might really get down.
“So I just kept drinking Hennessy [because I was nervous] and just waiting for the water to pop up, and then he got on the mic and rhymed, and killed it, and then he called me to the mic. And I was too drunk. I think I fumbled on that one, that n-gga is unforgiving. That was the one opportunity that, if I had gone back, would have changed everything.”
Despite the fumble, Ras Kass went on to have a stellar career and is still making music now. Last month, he connected with M.O.P. for a new action-packed animated music video titled “How the Block Sound.”
Against the backdrop of Amadeus360’s hard-hitting production, both Ras Kass and the Mash Out Posse went bar-for-bar on the record. The video animation was done by Carlito Way, who also created the animation for hit TV show The Boondocks.
As for Hov, he was spotted rocking the stage with longtime friend Pharrell last month in support of the debut of the Neptunes producer’s first collection as creative director at Louis Vuitton.
Hov popped out to surprise guests at the end of LV’s Paris fashion show while models walked out in the last looks. Besides performing “N-ggas In Paris,” he and Pharrell teamed up for their hit collab “Give It to Me” and more.
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The show debuted LV’s Men’s Spring-Summer 2024 Collection, with the stage spanning the bridge in front of the Louis Vuitton headquarters and the LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton-owned Cheval Blanc hotel.
