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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Archived · closedSane McGillicutty ·
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
B.Dolla824 ·
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.
Dj ILL One ·
B Dolla ,I think you`re right. The Piano starts out the origninal song and it goes through the whole Jay track.
ibn yasir ·
haha 45 king is a G. nice insight.
17th Dimension ·
Man, this was inspirational.
ClearBlue ·
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.
FemiAtWork ·
What was this originally recorded for?
Spectraz ·
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
D-Marz ·
hahaha "Dont mess up my drums"!!! dude that shit had me ROFL.... hilarious...
Spectraz ·
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
dzoo ·
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.
AndreB ·
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