Beanie Sigel interview on Art of Dialogue: Jay-Z Forced Me To Stop Writing. Jay-Z Wore Biggie's Personal Jesus Chain While Recording His Albums

[RennisDeynolds]

That's dope having an iconic piece like that in his collection

If I had money like that I would be copping items such as Tupac's ring/rollie etc.

Have Biggie's crown on a shelf...framed Coogi sweater on the wall lol

This is known that he would borrow the chain from BIG family to record a few sessions. Beanie told this story almost 2 decades now

 

[theflyest]

Has there ever been an Art of Dialogue interview without a mention of Pac, Diddy, or Biggie?

Art of Dialogue is A 2pac platform, so most questions are centered around him.

 

[get these nets]

Scarface is the best to ever do it.

 

[Earnings]

Like Beans said, there's a difference between not writing — but having the whole thing ready in your head — and going in the booth trying to piece shyt together; these young buls be doing the latter thinking it's fire.

Sometimes it work.

 

[Yehuda]

Sometimes it work.

 

[Bondye Vodou]

Willie D disrespectful af.

 

[Ghost Utmost]

I dunno why other rappers take pride in not writing. 99.9999% of rappers need to be writing. jay-z just happens to be a savant.

Writing it on paper or composing it in your head are pretty similar. I would call both "writing".

I don't write on paper because to me that "freezes" the barz in place too early. If I say the bar to myself a dozen times I can polish it up on the fly. Swap words in and out and move whole lines around without manually doing it on paper.

Eventually I would write it down just to keep is and not forget it. Over the years I might have forgotten more rhymes than I kept archived.

Now I just record them into my phone

Spoiler: example

 

[nieman]

Reading off the paper is only bad if you struggle at reading. But that's another skill to master, to make it sound natural. Writing in the head isn't an impossible feat either. Some people feel hindered by reading, and some feel less structured by going off memory. It's all about preference.

In either case, the method for making it sound effortless is by having all of your inflections and enunciations in place prior to recording. That still takes practice and is yet another skill to master.

 

[Danie84]

I always thought Compared to Beans your Wack was a huge compliment

 

[FreshAIG]

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Reading off the paper is only bad if you struggle at reading. But that's another skill to master, to make it sound natural. Writing in the head isn't an impossible feat either. Some people feel hindered by reading, and some feel less structured by going off memory. It's all about preference.

In either case, the method for making it sound effortless is by having all of your inflections and enunciations in place prior to recording. That still takes practice and is yet another skill to master.

I'm not disagreeing, just adding in a thought. Nothing is instant. You reading is an action that takes time. Another action is reading out loud. You can read much faster than you can read out loud because nothing is instant. It has to travel to your brain, process, then send it to your mouth

Now it seems instantaneous to us cause we're talking milliseconds and under of difference.. But like you said, if you're not practicing how make that seamless, you're going to sound robotic on the track

 

[Ghost Utmost]

I'm not disagreeing, just adding in a thought. Nothing is instant. You reading is an action that takes time. Another action is reading out loud. You can read much faster than you can read out loud because nothing is instant. It has to travel to your brain, process, then send it to your mouth

Now it seems instantaneous to us cause we're talking milliseconds and under of difference.. But like you said, if you're not practicing how make that seamless, you're going to sound robotic on the track

That's the main reason I never would write and record on one session. Whenever I have recorded it's always basically one take cause I come in with everything memorized.

The key is: I have said that rhyme like 50 times or more over the course of a few days before I consider it fully cooked.

Ideally, I record it, listen to it myself about 50 times and then lay down the final version. Kinda like having a reference track from myself.

 

[Zero]

Circa 01-05 Beanie Sigel was better bar for bar than any Jay Z era.

Why didn't yall buy his albums then?

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

That's the main reason I never would write and record on one session. Whenever I have recorded it's always basically one take cause I come in with everything memorized.

The key is: I have said that rhyme like 50 times or more over the course of a few days before I consider it fully cooked.

Ideally, I record it, listen to it myself about 50 times and then lay down the final version. Kinda like having a reference track from myself.

That's exactly how I do it... Record at home.. Listen a million times. When I have enough songs memorized and on point where I can recite them with no issues... I take them to the studio

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Why didn't yall buy his albums then?

You act like 1.5 million people are on the coli... I'm sure those in the thread did buy his albums