3. He originally wrote “Can I Get A…” and then agreed to let Jay Z have it
While Ja Rule still had a verse on the track, it went down in history as a Jay Z song. “At the time I felt like — maybe I am shorting myself, maybe if I would have kept it for myself, maybe my album would have sold three million copies,” he says. “That was a great moment for me though, because it really launched my career, that record.”'
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"4am we at the WAFFLE HOUSE"
Beanie wrote this song in the late late late 90s, probably around 99. he was living in Atlanta at the time, and hitting the streets and clubs. There was not 1 Waffle House in NYC in the late 90s. that's why that line was in the hook. the song is basically beanie writing about how he was living in a new city