jay-z 22 twos

[boogers]

first off, incredible song. jay's wordplay damn near at it's peak, if not for D'Evils. i'm wondering, is that a sample?

ski beatz famously HATES this beat.

"So I just had this random beat laying around and he was like, 'Yo I want to rap to that beat.' I was like, 'You sure?' He did it and it sounded dope so it was cool to me. That wasn’t my favorite thing that I did for him. But it worked out. It was something that was totally different from how the rest of the album was flowing.

It definitely displayed some ill lyrical shyt on his behalf. I wish I had did another track other than that because the beat was just another beat I had laying around and he just wanted to rap to it. That was one of those situations where we really had to get the album done so we just used that."

to my ears, it sounds like a viola. not necessarily a real one, it could be a keyboard playing it.. or it could be sampled.

anyone know anything about it? i did about 20 minutes of digging on google and i cant find a damn thing out about it. i want to ask ski on twitter but it looks like he's not too active. if you know anything, fill me in. if not, 22 Twos appreciation thread

PS - did yall hear someone found a photo of jay and those 92 bricks? i didnt believe it either, but it happened. ill put it behind a spoiler so nobody gets upset... it is kinda graphic.

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[Nabs]