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

[the cac mamba]

Is it that Serious to be celebrating the 10th anniversary of a song that WASNT a game changer??

Great single..but nothing groundbreaking...

this is exaclty my point; that it should have been

joint is fire but that beat shoulda been a song that went down in history. imo

 

[The Bookie]

all the pubishing For a song like this how much are we talking? sounds like millions

but, this makes sense

Eminem/Dre had to give up 100% of publishing + remove anti-gay lyrics from his debut single 'My Name Is'.

 

[DaveyDave]

Never ever knew it was Just saying Breathe.

shyt got me and at the same time.

that's him doing "welcome to NY City" as well

 

[Professor K.]

Just Blaze also used his voice on Lord Knows and Exhibit C

 

[big bun]

That song does not deserve a 10th anniversary mention. 10th anniversary articles are now officially played out.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

that's him doing "welcome to NY City" as well

Yeah, everyone thought that was a sample. Same with the rest of the beat. That whole beat had no samples. That's why I love Just. He can do a sampled beat that sounds like a keyboard beat, and a keyboard beat that sounds like a sample. He's so versatile.

That song does not deserve a 10th anniversary mention. 10th anniversary articles are now officially played out.

I'm loving and hating these 10 anniv things. They're nostalgic, but they also are making me feel old. Just Blaze is one of my favorite producers ever, so they can do a 10 year anniv article on everything he's done and I'll check it out. Little shyt like like him saying the Breathe part just makes it cool. I had always heard they lost the publishing for a different reason though. I heard Fab's camp played it on the radio before getting a sample clearance, so it was too late to have any leverage to ask for a lower number than 100k when Supertramp asked. Oh well, doesn't matter.

 

[-DMP-]

GOAT fabolous song. Thought he was coming for the crown with that one.

-DMP-

 

[TheDarceKnight]

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!

 

[the artist known az]

I remember when I first heard this song

I was like Fab stepped his game all the way up

 

[Kaypain]

+ rep. One of my all time favorite tracks. shyt should be 2k

 

[steadyrighteous]

Yeah, everyone thought that was a sample. Same with the rest of the beat. That whole beat had no samples. That's why I love Just. He can do a sampled beat that sounds like a keyboard beat, and a keyboard beat that sounds like a sample. He's so versatile.




I'm loving and hating these 10 anniv things. They're nostalgic, but they also are making me feel old. Just Blaze is one of my favorite producers ever, so they can do a 10 year anniv article on everything he's done and I'll check it out. Little shyt like like him saying the Breathe part just makes it cool. I had always heard they lost the publishing for a different reason though. I heard Fab's camp played it on the radio before getting a sample clearance, so it was too late to have any leverage to ask for a lower number than 100k when Supertramp asked. Oh well, doesn't matter.

I heard the same thing happened on Oh Boy.

nikkas fukking with Just's money running to Flex right after making tracks lol

 

[TheDarceKnight]

I heard the same thing happened on Oh Boy.

nikkas fukking with Just's money running to Flex right after making tracks lol

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.”

 

[mobbinfms]

I had always heard they lost the publishing for a different reason though. I heard Fab's camp played it on the radio before getting a sample clearance, so it was too late to have any leverage to ask for a lower number than 100k when Supertramp asked. Oh well, doesn't matter.

This makes a lot more sense. Otherwise that was the worst negotiating in the history of negotiation
Especially when they came back at the end to milk another $5k out of them

 

[TheDarceKnight]

This makes a lot more sense. Otherwise that was the worst negotiating in the history of negotiation
Especially when they came back at the end to milk another $5k out of them

Yeah I'm trying to think of the interview so I can link it, but I think it might've been an audio interview from the night he debuted Exhibit C on Tony Touch. He played mad records. I remember he played his version of Reminder, Dig a Hole, the OG Saigon/Layzie Bone song Better Way. He played the OG version of Flipside. He played that Nas Scientist joint.

I think that's when people went crazy for Exhibit C so they dropped it as a single? I have the whole radio show ripped somewhere as an mp3.

 

[Won Won]

Great single..but nothing groundbreaking...

Like "WHY" by JADAKISS or "G THANG"by Snoop and Dre

Those 2 examples have me dying for some reason

How do you throw Why and G Thang in the same pot?