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Here I come-camouflaged down, wearing Timberlands-listening to Jay-Z. When I got to Cash Money, they were listening to only West Coast music. Seriously, man, Reasonable Doubt? I was tripping off it. In 2012 he revealed to HipHopDX how he was a major Hov fan, even when those around him weren’t sold on game : “I didn’t think that would ever happen. Here it is, somebody that you look up to in the rap game on your song. I didn’t ask him to … That killed everything for me because I was excited like a kid on Christmas. They should get it two weeks from now in the mail.’ At that time there was no emailing anybody, so we had to wait.”In a 2012 interview focused on his biggest tracks, Juvenile told Complex that “Jay-Z liked the record and just did. This, from producer Mannie Fresh in 2013: “One day Baby called me at home and he was like, ‘Jay-Z wants to get on the remix to “Ha.”’ I was like, ‘Man, stop playing me, you’re lying.’ Birdman replied, ‘No, they already sent him the track. He heard “Ha” in The Tunnel one evening, and called Juvenile the next day. “If a fight breaks out to a record,” Sounds explained, “you know you’ve got a hit on your hands.” Funkmaster Flex would also play it during his club sets, and on his Hot 97 radio show.Īt the time Jay-Z was in the process of recording his 5x Multi-Platinum third studio album Vol.
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When they traveled down South he would ask to trade records with the local DJs and when he asked them what was the hottest record in the street was they gave him “Ha.” He brought it back to New York City and started playing it during his sets at The Tunnel-in April 1999 he spoke with NY Mag and revealed how the first time he played it the nightclub was overrun with drink-tossing, shoving matches, and outright fistfights. The last track he and Mannie Fresh produced for the project was “Ha”-and as soon as it was completed they knew they had their lead single.Īround this time Cipha Sounds was still working as Lil’ Kim’s tour DJ. The Magnolia Projects native spent a large portion of 1998 recording his third studio album, 400 Degreez. That label was Ca$h Money Records-as founded in 1991 by Bryan “Birdman” Williams and Ronald “Slim” Williams-and Juvenile was one of the artists taking the energetic bounce sound worldwide. In 1998 a home-grown label out of New Orleans was a key player in bringing a regional music concern to national attention.