ah so this just happened look so jay-z doesn't typically give up the game behind many of the songs that he's written for other artists but on the latest episode of lebron james hbo series the shop which aired friday may 28th the brooklyn mogul gave braun and maverick center a little insight to one of his more memorable behind the pen moments during a conversation where carter recalls hoe riding the bug's bunny rap for the original space jam soundtrack he dives into steel dre dr dre's lead single from his classic 1999 album 2001. but on that reference
track i'm doing dre and snoops wow yeah the reference track it sounds like them the foxy reference i'm glad nobody can find us but um yeah but you got to have somewhat like a reverence for them like obviously like you know the music they were making and the chronic and all that you know and in order for me to like really like nail get the essence of dre and snoop had to be like a steady reverence of you know what they were doing to say like even put myself in their shoes think about that record
so that record came after um dre leaves death row it was all about reminding people yeah how my last album was the chronicles that's one of the best lines of hitbox the single from 2001 would push the album into rarefied heights for the longtime compton super producer and mogul the album would become dre's biggest seller going six times platinum according to the recording industry association of america and set the stage for aftermath records even further with follow-up releases by eminem and later 50 cent but yeah what do you guys think did you know that jay-z
wrote that song or are you just finding out about it now and what is your favorite song written by jay-z that maybe a lot of people don't know about let us know your thoughts in the comment section down below once again i'm your boy protogoat hit that subscribe button and notification bell to stay up to date on all of our new videos and as always make sure to keep it all the way locked hiphopdx.com