It gave new energy to a hip-hop scene that was still reeling from the deaths of 2Pac and Biggie.Anne Kristoff (former Vice President of PR, Elektra): She 100 percent did not want to be an artist. She's like, "I'm not an artist. I want to be Diane Warren. I'm going to write...
Folk hero Woody Guthrie penned this timeless tune in 1940, though it wasn't released until years later. Originally titled "God Blessed America for Me," it was composed as a sarcastic retort to Irving Berlin's overly patriotic "God Bless America." Some of Guthrie's original lyrics were far ...
and to Prodigy. We thought it would be cool to do a salute to them. Method Man and I had worked together before this — and seeing that we worked together so well, you know, we decided to do it again.
“Things That U Do,” the Swizz Beatz–produced second single, was a rare Hov brick, despite the Mariah Carey feature. Why did it underperform? In Rob Harvilla’s Ringer feature on LFO’s “Summer Girls,” he noted that “pop radio in 1999 had a disoriented, throw-shit-at-the-w...
All that other stuff that makes me feel uncomfortable that I don’t want to do, I don’t have to do it to create the music I want to create. It used to weigh me down, but now I’m not tripping too much. Sometimes I just have to put my game face on. When I get to a point...