This is a nice recent Just Blaze interview,
I just highlightend some of the info he revealed (copied from the following link)
DJ Warren Peace and Mike Pizzo ask Just more about Mash Out Posse’s short-lived tenure at the Roc. “So the funny thing is, we had half an album planned,” recalls the producer. “They picked the beats and everything, but nothing ever got vocal’d.”
Just Blaze remained at Baseline Studios long after Roc-A-Fella’s founders had sold the company and parted ways. In closing down the sacred recording studio two years ago, Just says he found those beats that were set aside for Billy Danze and Lil Fame. “I found the folder of beats. ‘Cause when we closed Baseline, we made sure that we digitized everything. I tweeted, ‘Yo, I found the M.O.P. beat folder.'”
Shortly after the tweet, Just was DJ’ing at his Mobile Mondays post in Lower Manhattan. He got a visit. “[Lil] Fame pulls up to Mobile Mondays like, ‘Yo, I heard you was gonna be here, and I heard you got a folder of beats.’ I had just bought the new Lambo’ that day,” he says of the Italian sports car. He took the MC/producer over to the expensive ride. “So we jump in the car, and I play him the folder. He took the whole folder, like, ‘Yo, we’re gonna make something out of this.’ I haven’t seen him since. But M.O.P. does have those beats now.” Just says that in the early 2000s, Fame and Bill never took the tracks home with them. “So they didn’t get those beats until 15 years later.” Just praises M.O.P.’s 2000 Warriorz album, the released they made just before signing with Roc-A-Fella.
Just Blaze also discusses some other Roc relics. “There’s a whole [Memphis] Bleek and [Beanie Sigel] album no ones ever heard,” he reveals. “The State Property album came about because we were doing a Bleek and Beans album.” During the time of the collaborative album’s recording, Bleek’s brother was seriously injured in a car accident. “He wasn’t in the right mindset, but the studio was already booked,” explains Blaze, “So, State Property happened instead. That’s where ‘Roc The Mic’ came from.”
Elsewhere in the Let The Show conversation, Just Blaze reveals assembling a super-group of producers for Slaughterhouse’s unfinished Shady Records sophomore LP. He also explains how Genesis influenced his production on JAY-Z’s “Show Me What You Got.”
Whole video: ( part about jay-z, m.o.p, roc, etc. starts at 36:20)
I just highlightend some of the info he revealed (copied from the following link)
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https://ambrosiaforheads.com/2019/01/just-blaze-mop-roc-a-fella-beats-video/DJ Warren Peace and Mike Pizzo ask Just more about Mash Out Posse’s short-lived tenure at the Roc. “So the funny thing is, we had half an album planned,” recalls the producer. “They picked the beats and everything, but nothing ever got vocal’d.”
Just Blaze remained at Baseline Studios long after Roc-A-Fella’s founders had sold the company and parted ways. In closing down the sacred recording studio two years ago, Just says he found those beats that were set aside for Billy Danze and Lil Fame. “I found the folder of beats. ‘Cause when we closed Baseline, we made sure that we digitized everything. I tweeted, ‘Yo, I found the M.O.P. beat folder.'”
Shortly after the tweet, Just was DJ’ing at his Mobile Mondays post in Lower Manhattan. He got a visit. “[Lil] Fame pulls up to Mobile Mondays like, ‘Yo, I heard you was gonna be here, and I heard you got a folder of beats.’ I had just bought the new Lambo’ that day,” he says of the Italian sports car. He took the MC/producer over to the expensive ride. “So we jump in the car, and I play him the folder. He took the whole folder, like, ‘Yo, we’re gonna make something out of this.’ I haven’t seen him since. But M.O.P. does have those beats now.” Just says that in the early 2000s, Fame and Bill never took the tracks home with them. “So they didn’t get those beats until 15 years later.” Just praises M.O.P.’s 2000 Warriorz album, the released they made just before signing with Roc-A-Fella.
Just Blaze also discusses some other Roc relics. “There’s a whole [Memphis] Bleek and [Beanie Sigel] album no ones ever heard,” he reveals. “The State Property album came about because we were doing a Bleek and Beans album.” During the time of the collaborative album’s recording, Bleek’s brother was seriously injured in a car accident. “He wasn’t in the right mindset, but the studio was already booked,” explains Blaze, “So, State Property happened instead. That’s where ‘Roc The Mic’ came from.”
Elsewhere in the Let The Show conversation, Just Blaze reveals assembling a super-group of producers for Slaughterhouse’s unfinished Shady Records sophomore LP. He also explains how Genesis influenced his production on JAY-Z’s “Show Me What You Got.”
Whole video: ( part about jay-z, m.o.p, roc, etc. starts at 36:20)
