The 45 King cuts it up on his Vestax Handi Traxx turntables then explains the making of the unexpected Jay Z classic, “Hard Knock Life”. Both 45 King and Jay tell their sides of the story from finding the Annie soudtrack at a thrift store to recording the final version.
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I love that he said he keeps all his drums on one track so engineers cant mess it up! LMAO DOPE!!! Now that I think about it, Seems like the beat would have less than 5 tracks if all the drums were on one track. Bass, Sample, Drums…what else is there in that song. Assuming, by drums he meant hats,kicks,snares,crashes and cymbals
Hahaha, yeah dude that shit was hilarious.
I guess the horn stabs, vocal sample and keys are all separate tracks. That’s my guess at least.
B Dolla ,I think you`re right. The Piano starts out the origninal song and it goes through the whole Jay track.
haha 45 king is a G. nice insight.
Man, this was inspirational.
Wow I have been sleeping on 45 King but that was the best shit I have seen in a while. That guy is hilarious. A+ on this vid.
What was this originally recorded for?
It is definitely recorded for swedish TV, probably for a program called “Musikbyrån” (Music Bureau) which is a program dedicated to music. After some more digging I found out that it is for a hit record history special, where I think that artists get to pick one record, bring with them and then to talk about. This is probably the intro to the video above:
http://svtplay.se/v/1864937/hitlatens_historia/teaser_hitlatens_historia_-_jay_z?cb,a1364145,1,f,-1/pb,a1364142,1,f,-1/pl,v,,1864937/sb,k122839,1,f,-1
hahaha “Dont mess up my drums”!!! dude that shit had me ROFL…. hilarious…
Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem) – http://svtplay.se/v/1867970/hitlatens_historia/del_2_av_6__hard_knock_life__ghetto_anthem__-_jay-z?cb,a1364145,1,f,-1/pb,a1364142,1,f,-1/pl,v,,1878392/sb,p122837,1,f,-1
funny i heard dame dash claim sole responsibility for finding this beat and paying $10,000 cash on the spot for it. . who is lyin?
dame also said the main white boy at def jam said this was not gonna be a hit.
Good post! I posted this too on my musicproduction blog with a translation. Check it out!
http://beatreport.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-makeing-of-hard-knock-life