Oh you went platinum? Yeah that’s nice!
Now let me see you do the same thing twice.
— Nas
Right at the beginning of the record [N.Y. State of Mind], when he says, “Straight out the dungeons of rap, where fake niggas don’t make it back.” And then there’s kind of like a silence, where the music is building up, and you hear Nas go, “I don’t know how to start this shit.” He just wrote it, and he was trying to figure out how to format it, like when to come in. I’m waving at him in the control room like, “Look at me, go in for the count.” So right when he looks up and sees me counting, he just jumps in. He did the whole first verse in one take, and I remember when he finished the first verse, he stopped and said, “Does that sound cool?” And we were all like, “Oh my God!” It was like, I don’t even care what else you write.
I just re-listened to the song’s opening and first verse very carefully and almost felt a chill. Talent = Sexy.
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