Jay heard it and was like, “I want that record. “It was me and Geechi Suede from Camp Lo, it was my hook and everything. Ski would go on to produce a pair of songs for In My Lifetime, Vol.1, but was drummed out when Jay cleaned house before Vol.
The latter move indirectly led to the rappers’ half-decade long feud when Nas declined to appear on the song. Ski crafted dusty boom-bap and leaned on classic soul and jazz samples (the style du jour), but he also interpolated A Tribe Called Quest (’22 Two’s’) and - most famously - sampled Nas on ‘Dead Presidents’. The North Carolina-bred producer had a hand in Jay-Z’s early solo material, beginning with the original version of his debut single ‘In My Lifetime’.
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