TheDarceKnight
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Also Havoc didn't even have to clear the sample. he knew no one would ever find that shyt.
But unappreciatiion that Prodigy passed on doing a verse for this in his prime.
Havoc - " I got a call from Puff, he asked for a record for Big and he wanted some street shyt. The beat that ended up on the album wasn’t the original beat that I had done. I did a beat that Puff liked and the reel had got stolen. So I had a whole new beat. Puff co-produced it with me and then The LOX jumped on it. Puffy added like a string to it and like some weird funny sound. It was almost similar to the original beat, but the original one was way better than that. I wish that could pop up now. I had made the beat from scratch, without putting it on disc and then saving it to disc. I just recorded it straight to reel and somebody hated, and stole the reel."
DX: Going back to your statement about holding New York down, what do you remember most about working with B.I.G. and The Lox on “Last Day?”
Havoc: [Diddy] commissioned me to do a track for him. Back in those days, we recorded on reel to reel [tapes], and somehow the original track got lost. I don’t know how—I guess somebody maybe was hatin’ or some shyt. But I had to do another track that sounded similar to the one that you hear now. I remember being in the studio doing the track, and [The Notorious] B.I.G. was in the other room recording. I remember Puff coming in there, and just making sure everything was smooth. It was pretty normal, and Puff was cool. Nothing out of the ordinary happened. I did what I had to do, and I was out.
DX: So, technically fans have never heard the original version of “Last Day” that you did with Biggie?
Havoc: Yeah, the final is different, and Puff was pissed. He was literally pissed like, “Yo, I want the fukkin’ beat I paid for!” He was not playing. And I was like, “Yo, shyt got misplaced…” And that’s enough to make you not even be fukkin’ part of the project. That’s enough to make someone say, “You know what? fukk it. Give me my money back.” But he had faith in me. I did the beat over, and that didn’t happen.
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But unappreciatiion that Prodigy passed on doing a verse for this in his prime.
Havoc - " I got a call from Puff, he asked for a record for Big and he wanted some street shyt. The beat that ended up on the album wasn’t the original beat that I had done. I did a beat that Puff liked and the reel had got stolen. So I had a whole new beat. Puff co-produced it with me and then The LOX jumped on it. Puffy added like a string to it and like some weird funny sound. It was almost similar to the original beat, but the original one was way better than that. I wish that could pop up now. I had made the beat from scratch, without putting it on disc and then saving it to disc. I just recorded it straight to reel and somebody hated, and stole the reel."
DX: Going back to your statement about holding New York down, what do you remember most about working with B.I.G. and The Lox on “Last Day?”
Havoc: [Diddy] commissioned me to do a track for him. Back in those days, we recorded on reel to reel [tapes], and somehow the original track got lost. I don’t know how—I guess somebody maybe was hatin’ or some shyt. But I had to do another track that sounded similar to the one that you hear now. I remember being in the studio doing the track, and [The Notorious] B.I.G. was in the other room recording. I remember Puff coming in there, and just making sure everything was smooth. It was pretty normal, and Puff was cool. Nothing out of the ordinary happened. I did what I had to do, and I was out.
DX: So, technically fans have never heard the original version of “Last Day” that you did with Biggie?
Havoc: Yeah, the final is different, and Puff was pissed. He was literally pissed like, “Yo, I want the fukkin’ beat I paid for!” He was not playing. And I was like, “Yo, shyt got misplaced…” And that’s enough to make you not even be fukkin’ part of the project. That’s enough to make someone say, “You know what? fukk it. Give me my money back.” But he had faith in me. I did the beat over, and that didn’t happen.
@mobbinfms @shopant @Mobb Alchemist @Billy Ocean @Illeye buckmatic @Deltron @IronFist @Inspect Her Deck @shopant @bigesco @Columbo @Pinyapplesuckas @I.AM.PIFF @Tuaminator @BmoreGorilla @FreshAIG @hustlemania @That Singer Guy... @TEKBEATZ @SoulController @JuvenileHell @torcher @charmander @TheDarceKnight @CELL
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When Havoc says Puff added "some funny weird sound" I know the exact sound he means. It's gotta be that little laser sound that comes in right before Jadakiss starts doing the hook at the beginning. 
