Just Blaze Talks Fabolous' "Breathe" For The Song's 10-Year Anniversary

[steadyrighteous]

You're exactly right. Source: http://www.complex.com/music/2011/0...ries-behind-his-classic-records-part-2/oh-boy

“There was drama about that song being Jay's originally, and that they stole Jay's beat or whatever. It totally wasn't like that. Originally, the beat was much faster. I made it as an up-tempo record for Bleek but he turned it down. I reworked it and slowed it down, but he still wasn't really feeling it.

“Jay walked in and heard it and was like, 'Yo, that's serious,' but he wasn't working on an album at the time. He had just finished Blueprint 2, so he was like, 'Hold that for me.' There's a million beats like that. Jay said the same thing about 'Pump It Up.' Sometimes he'll hear a beat and like it but he won't like it a year later when he's making an album.

“Hip Hop, who was A&R'ing at the time, would have a case full of CDs. One day, Cam and them came to the studio and asked Hip Hop if he had any beats. Hip played a bunch of beats and the 'Oh Boy' beat was on one of the CD's. They did the record, and Guru called me like, 'Yo, Cam and them is about to do this 'Oh Boy' joint.' I was like, 'Go ahead.' That was it. They did it, and they took it to radio like five minutes later, before I could even hear it.

“I was on my way to the studio to hear the record. I was at a lounge and realized that I was hearing it off the radio. That was when Power 105 had just started. There weren't any DJs around. It was automated and they were playing the original demo version that Cam had brought to Angie's show. They weren't even playing the finished version for the first few months, because everything was by computer, and they hadn't updated their computers at the station.

That goes to show you that every once in a while, you have a good song and you don't have to spend a million dollars to shove down the radio's throats. Every once in a while, you just have a record that's special. That was one of them.”

I knew the story sounded familiar. Man, I'd love to chop it up with Just Blaze one day. He must have stories for days.

Any interview he does I try and watch.

 

[Sad Bunny]

Fab killed it but the rest if the album was shyt.

 

[Kaypain]

Just Blaze is one the goats man. Show Me What You Got is one hell of a production too

 

[TheDarceKnight]

I knew the story sounded familiar. Man, I'd love to chop it up with Just Blaze one day. He must have stories for days.

Any interview he does I try and watch.

It's kinda sad man. I know people go thru phases in life but he really doesn't seem to love the music anymore. It's way too easy to say "so and so lost the love" but it really feels that way. I caught an interview with him the other day, and they were asking him about Detox, and he kept talking about how it would be a bad financial investment compared to the headphones for Dre. And the interviewer was just like 'Well what about just wanting to put it out for the love, even though it wouldn't make as much profit, it could still make a profit."

Just said something like, "Again, you a want a billion or 30 million?"

They asked him about a compilation album and I found the quote, he said this:

"You’ve heard it already. Take all the records I’ve ever done, put it in your iTunes, make a playlist and now you got it. From a business standpoint, with rare exceptions, traditionally, those things don’t sell. The amount of time that I would take to do something like that and dedicate to that would take away from other ventures and things that I could be doing. Don’t get me wrong: there’s something to be said for passion projects, but at the same time, historically those things don’t do well.

Some guys I’m friends with have the access to all their fans now and sometimes, they overhype things to the point where the expectations are so high – or they’ll say they’re doing a record with somebody and due to label politics, it can’t come out. I don’t want to say anything that’s going to have people start to speculate and anticipate and then it comes out late or not at all. By letting people know that certain things exist, the seed has been planted from the minute they hear that. And then it comes out and it’s never as good as you want it to be because you have this grand scheme in your head that when you put in the CD or download it from iTunes, that you’re going to hear Jesus. It can’t happen. - See more at: http://www.fuse.tv/2012/10/just-blaze-dr-dre-detox-kendrick-lamar-compton#sthash.QrrYUtfo.dpuf


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[Jack Trippa 3z company ho]

Loso MADE that joint

Lol nah. Bert n Ernie coulda traded bars on that joint and it woulda been dope. Fab was mostly garbage.

 

[steadyrighteous]

It's kinda sad man. I know people go thru phases in life but he really doesn't seem to love the music anymore. It's way too easy to say "so and so lost the love" but it really feels that way. I caught an interview with him the other day, and they were asking him about Detox, and he kept talking about how it would be a bad financial investment compared to the headphones for Dre. And the interviewer was just like 'Well what about just wanting to put it out for the love, even though it wouldn't make as much profit, it could still make a profit."

Just said something like, "Again, you a want a billion or 30 million?"

They asked him about a compilation album and I found the quote, he said this:

"You’ve heard it already. Take all the records I’ve ever done, put it in your iTunes, make a playlist and now you got it. From a business standpoint, with rare exceptions, traditionally, those things don’t sell. The amount of time that I would take to do something like that and dedicate to that would take away from other ventures and things that I could be doing. Don’t get me wrong: there’s something to be said for passion projects, but at the same time, historically those things don’t do well.

Some guys I’m friends with have the access to all their fans now and sometimes, they overhype things to the point where the expectations are so high – or they’ll say they’re doing a record with somebody and due to label politics, it can’t come out. I don’t want to say anything that’s going to have people start to speculate and anticipate and then it comes out late or not at all. By letting people know that certain things exist, the seed has been planted from the minute they hear that. And then it comes out and it’s never as good as you want it to be because you have this grand scheme in your head that when you put in the CD or download it from iTunes, that you’re going to hear Jesus. It can’t happen. - See more at: http://www.fuse.tv/2012/10/just-blaze-dr-dre-detox-kendrick-lamar-compton#sthash.QrrYUtfo.dpuf


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I know exactly what you mean man.

If Just sat down for a year on some Alchemist shyt, he'd show people exactly why people like me and you hold him in high regard.

That DJ money must be really nice because I can't even think of the last Just Blaze beat I heard. Anything in 2014?

 

[TheDarceKnight]

I know exactly what you mean man.

If Just sat down for a year on some Alchemist shyt, he'd show people exactly why people like me and you hold him in high regard.

That DJ money must be really nice because I can't even think of the last Just Blaze beat I heard. Anything in 2014?

I think he did that Higher song with Bauer? That's all I know of. It wasn't even really a hip-hop joint. I could actually see Just doing EDM if anything. That was actually 2013. yeah man, nothing in 2014 that I know of.

 

[steadyrighteous]

I think he did that Higher song with Bauer? That's all I know of. It wasn't even really a hip-hop joint. I acould actually see Just doing EDM if anything. That was actually 2013. yeah man, nothing in 2014 that I know of.

While I've got you. You are/were cool with the Jamla/IWWMG cats.

Why is everything that comes out of there mixed/mastered poorly? Flat I think, there's no richness or variation to the albums/mixtapes they drop.

I'm not an engineer or producer, so I don't know the word I'm looking for.

 

[GollyImGully]

This is only a half hijack because I'm posting something that Just Blaze did scratches on, even though Alchemist produced it, but I always thought Fab sounded better on hard joints. he was always one of those rappers where I thought they could never make up their mind on what they wanted to do. If Fab had albums full of joints like Breathe and and Lullaby it would be fukkin great!

i always say the same about fab his beat selection is very strange for the most part he picks complete trash...beats that you wont remember after one listen

look at the real talk cd, the album breathe is on, the sounds are all over the place on that

 

[TheDarceKnight]

If Just sat down for a year on some Alchemist shyt, he'd show people exactly why people like me and you hold him in high regard.

Yep! I don't see that ever happening though. 2 totally different personalities right now. Alchemist just seems to want to make shyt with his friends for his own amusement and fans. The first gangrene and Covert Coup albums kinda ushered in a whole new era for him. I remember back on the ALC message board (closed now days) people used to post a song every couple months and it was a big deal.

If you check his discography on Wiki, pre 2011, there's a few joints a year if you don't count his albums and mixtapes. When he started getting down with Oh No and listening to Madlib is when he started doing all these entire albums. I hate to say it, but I think the Saigon GSNT is the last album well get that Just Blaze produces.

 

[The Bookie]

Typical Just Blaze production/mix where the beat just overpowers the vocals.

 

[Kill Dat Noize]

still say this beat was wasted on fab, hes nice but i just never felt like he did it justice

i'm a fab stan and i agree wit this.

i think most people remember that track for the beat and the hook, but fab's flow gets lost in time i think.

 

[Danie84]

Your future looks better than ya past if you present with the man

...Breathe being a decade old makes me feel like Holmes