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Dubcnn: "Nigga Sings the Blues" the BlackJack version, what was the other version?Another horror my man! (laughs) Nah, that song actually went on the Jason's Lyric soundtrack. So that version is horrible! They added some blues guitars and some other stuff when I wasn't there and its terrible. The mix is terrible, it’s wack. I got really upset and to appease me they made two different versions, even though the beat was essentially mine they added stuff and I didn't like it. So we got my version out on the album and they made that one another version.
Dubcnn: Ok I have just a couple more. What about the song with Method Man "Hard To Kill"?We were staying in this hotel in L.A. and Meth was there, too, and I think they just ran into E-A Skih other and were like we need to do a song together. So we went to the studio and laid it down and took all day to get it done. It was wild because, you know how somebody plays you and you don't even know it? I was talking to Meth about his production and asked him "who makes your beats"? He was like "I make them", so I was like ok, he was doing his own beats that's kind of dope. But he wasn't doing his own beats, he just didn't want any beats from us. It was a little different the way that he wrote his music and the way that he laid his songs down with the way that we laid our songs down. It was just a little different watching the east coast Wu-Tang guy do his thing. West Coast artist most of them just wanted the overall song to be dope; more hook-oriented music than verses. I think that the east coast guys made the verses dope then the hook was kind of like last, except for Biggie, which is why I think that Biggie blew up. He was one of the few east coast artists that valued making a dope hook and structured his songs around that.
Dubcnn: With that album, do you have any unreleased little gems from those sessions?Nope, with Spice what he recorded we used for the most part. There is one song I think from one of his albums, but that's it. If you were paying for recording you were going to use it. It could be thousands of dollars after all the mixing and producer fees, so there wasn't any not using a song. Dubcnn: You produced on Spice-1’s self-titled album and on 2000's The Last Dance. It’s been nearly a decade since you two have worked together. Are we ever going to see a Spice-1/BlackJack collaboration again?I'm with it. I know that he has been busy with his thing. The thing that was weird about Spice was that between me, him, E-A Ski and CMT, we never really could figure out where we stood with them. They felt like Jive controlled his record. They would allot a certain amount of tracks for me, and allot an amount of tracks for E-A Ski on his record, without consulting him. So, I think that when he had the opportunity to go off and do his own thing he did and was intent on doing so. The thing about it is, he has never had the success without us that he had with us. Not to dis him, I have all of the respect in the world for him, but it’s a fact. There was another album that we were supposed to do after the 1996 album where they paid us up front. They paid me, Ski, Banks, and all of us up front to do this album. Spice said he didn't want to do it. I don't know what that all was about. When I was around Spice we were always cool. But I felt like he just wanted more control of his record and he tried that out. Most artists feel that way and sometimes they can be proven right like Cube, and sometimes they can be proven wrong.
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