In a recent interview with The Urban Daily, Saigon talked about working with Jay-Z while he was still signed to Atlantic Records. According to the Brooklyn rhymer – who is currently gearing up to release his long-awaited debut album The Greatest Story Never Told this February 22 via Fort Knocks Entertainment/Suburban Noize Records – Jay-Z relieved him of a number of beats, including the Just Blaze-produced track that later became 2006’s “Kingdom Come.”
“Jay-Z was jacking for beats baby,” Saigon said. “We were working at Baseline [Studios] and we’re like a close family. Jay would come around, pop up every now and again and me and Just [Blaze] were in there working hard. Just would give me a gang of beats at a time and every now and again one would come up missing. One I’d write to or really loved then the next thing you know, there’d be a big meeting and they’d say, ‘Sai, we need to talk to you. You know that beat we had? The one you were loving? Yeah, big homie’s got that now.’ And you know big homie’s Jay-Z. He did that to me about three or four times. ‘Kingdom Come’ was mine.”
Although Hov may have taken “Kingdom Come” from the Yardfather, he returned the favor by lacing him with his verse the “Come On Baby” remix free of charge. Saigon explains that Jay had initially taken that beat from him as well, but ultimately gave it back with his already recorded verse left in tact.
“‘Come On Baby’ was mine, he took it, did his thing to it and then gave it back because he didn’t want to use it,” he explained. “He gave it back to me but was like, ‘You can keep the verse I left on there.’ So I was like cool, you know what I mean? That was a big homie move because you can’t buy a Jay-Z verse. You can’t go to Jay-Z and say, ‘Hey, we got a hundred thousand for you to get on the record.’ He’d wipe his ass with a hundred thousand dollars. That’s why he said that line, ‘You wanna be in the public, send your budget,’ that means your whole recording budget. That means if you get him, there’s no money for producers, studio time, nothing. Send your budget.”
The full interview can be seen below.
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I guess thats what Jay ment when he said ” In my jean pocket, your advance and per diem”
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wow dude got all his beats jacked by jay and jay in return gives him one of his worst sounding verse ever to compensate him. and sai sounds proud that he ended up with the worst jay-z collabo of all time..dude got played and he’s braggin about it
There’s way worse jay collabs you mouthy prick.
Dumbass how did he jack your beat?? Just gave him that shit and gave you that old song and dance. You cant be that stupid…..or maybe you can. Just would have to play the track for him to even hear it.
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It’s like he said budgets..Just blaze can sell a beat to Jay for way more than Saigon..If he’s mad at anybody be mad at Just Blaze…Thats whi cats love dilla..he didn’t care if it was Frank and Dank or Tip…if he gave you a track thats was word..typical industry bs
I don’t think he’s mad I think he’s just telling the story cause people like to know that kind of stuff.
It looks like he should have been mad with Just like the one comment said. I just don’t no for the life of me that producer give away so many beats like that. I heard a comments from DJ Premier recently that he only sends people out a few beats at a time, then if they don’t like um then send a few more. As soon as you hear a beat you don’t right alway feel it the first time. So giving people time as well as friends telling you their feelings about it can very dangerous for your career. Nothing is safe today everybody wants that top spot and will do whatever it takes to keep it.
Wow, so Saigon is a liar. When that “remix” came out, he said Jay-Z came into the studio and recorded it for him. Now we hear the real story. Look back at the article from years ago..
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