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the jurogan experience can i ask you how you create a song like how when when you're putting something like that together do you write it out on paper do you just say it until you remember it like jay-z apparently doesn't write anything right right just keeps it all in his head do you do that do you write it when i first started out my first album doggy style i got two songs where i just freestyled one is called g's and hustlers and one is called the shiznit those two songs i just went there and just freestyle whatever came out of my mind in my head of the day i've been good at that for a long time but a lot of times i like to make sure that i'm pinpointing a specific topic a specific cadence and a specific style that i'm trying to perfect when i'm making a song i'm not just trying to make a record for the day i'm trying to make something that's going to be here tomorrow and the next day and the next year so when you said you freestyle it you mean like when you walked in you really didn't know what you were going to sing when you were recording it well the song the sharesnet was supposed to be a mic check i was supposed to go in there and just check the mic mic check one two might check it and drake put the beat on mic check check one two one two hop and stop and hopping like a rabbit when i take the nina rosh you know i gots to have it i stay back in the cut retain myself i'm thinking about the [ __ ] and i'm thinking well how can i makes my grip and how can i make that [ __ ] straight slip said tripp gotta get him for was grip as i dipped around the corner now i'm on another mission wishing upon a star it's snoop doggy dog with the caviar in the back of the limo no demo this is the real i'm breaking [ __ ] down like evander holyfield chill till the next episode i make money and i really don't love hoes to tell you the truth i swoop in the coop i used to look man come on man that was all the freestyle just going in that [ __ ] just spit from the dome and it just came out and dr dre
just made it wow made it work but every song is different you know cause sometimes a song would come to me from just like hearing some [ __ ] or just being out somewhere and be like damn i want to make a song about whatever i just went through or whatever i'm going through or whatever is the moment it's always a different experience every time we make a song so sometimes it's something that you actually write out a lot of times the song murder was the case i wrote that song because i was thinking about life after death the song was initially called dave d-a-v-e death after visualizing eternity oh and it was crazy that i was thinking of [ __ ] like that and i had made a song called murder was the case that was about me losing my life but before i lost my life i didn't cut a deal with the devil but then god came back and gave me another chance that was in my mind but when i wrote it just became some gangster [ __ ] but that was the premise behind it and it was just in my head like i want to write a song like this and then three months later i caught a murder case in real life well yes so my pen was actually right in reality so i had to pull back from certain things and say maybe elijah started writing about life and living instead of always writing about dying and death whoa deep just think about my peers me tupac like just think about our records the last records that they made it was a lot of death it has some life in it too but it had a lot of death in it yeah that east coast west coast [ __ ] it became a real a real divide in the country with hip-hop right yeah it was because you didn't want to be on the wrong side and you didn't want to like like for example if you had friends
right that was leaning more towards the east coast and you had a friend that really wanted to hear west coast music you all might have been to your friendship yeah based off of that really it was that serious yeah how did it it went it kind of isn't that way anymore though right what it was that's good isn't that like a good sign for the future that's a great sign there's people working together from all parts of the world because like in the 90s that was a real problem that was a real divide the divide was the we couldn't control the media like we can now so even back then east coast and west coast we used to hang with each other and kick it and love each other but we didn't control the media platform so we we couldn't we didn't have a instagram or facebook and none of that [ __ ] where we can slap up a picture of me and nas and jay-z and this person hanging out we didn't have that all you had was the media saying the east coast and the west coast don't like each other which side you're choosing yeah and that's just that yeah and it's their job just to sell newspapers right and then once lives were lost then you could blame you can naturally say tupac okay did somebody have something to do with that from the east coast we don't know biggie he got killed on the west coast that put speculation that maybe somebody from the west coast has something to do with it so i just kept fueling to the fire until you had people like uh puffy myself steve harvey who were man enough to say look we need to put an end to this and let people know that we don't advocate that we really love each other we're a family and we started building bridges and started doing things together and being seen together and controlling our own narrative as far as what we was putting in the public's eye watch the entire episode for free only on spotify