Just Blaze Opens up about His Legendary Production Career, Starting Out as a DJ, and the Stories behind His Classics

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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This week Talib Kweli and Jasmin Leigh are joined by Just Blaze–architect of classics from the ‘90s, aughts, and into today–for a deep dive into his storied career. Kicking it off with a discussion of how producing and computer coding go hand-in-hand, Just and Kweli go into the history behind his alias “Megatron Don” as well as Just’s love of sneakers–and how that led him to his new Uproxx show “Fresh Pair.” Kweli and Just also delve into the history behind the Just Blaze tag, and the importance of branding yourself as a producer. They also discuss his work with rap legends Jay-Z and Beanie Siegel, among others. The episode rounds out with a discussion of the production behind Rihanna and TI’s “Live Your Life” and the recording of “Exhibit A” and “Exhibit C” with Jay Electronica.

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0:00.0	Peace and love party people. This is Talib Kuala Lee to BKMC, the MCEO.
0:03.8	You are about to hear an excerpt of People's Party hosted by me and my lovely and talented
0:08.0	co-host, Ms. Jasmine Lee. What up, Jasmine? What up, Peeps, to hear our entire combo and all of
0:12.7	our episodes with stars from the game to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany
0:18.0	Hatish. Subscribe to the Luminary channel on Apple Podcasts.
0:21.9	Hatek hit me up. He was like, yo, I'll be on the phone with Beanie Mack.
0:25.6	He's a seagull. He wanted, you know, we might do some work together. Him and Hatek did a song
0:30.0	on the lyricist lounge too, but around that time, right? But I never forget this Hatek put me on
0:36.5	the phone with him. He's like, what up, scrap and all this, all a bunch of scraps.
0:41.0	And it was a whatever legal situation. He was like, let's get up. He's like, I got to get in,
0:45.3	but I have to be in Saibha certain time. Right, right, right. He was a debt error. And then I'm talking
0:50.1	to him. And he's asking me like, for features, he starts asking me for money. But it didn't sound
0:56.6	right. I'm talking, I'm talking, I'm talking, I'm like, this ain't being a seagull. I was going to
1:01.4	say that on the cell. I didn't hear any seagull. And I told him, I'm going to tell him, that's not
1:04.6	be whoever you talking to, bro. I've been talking to do for three months. And I called Dame. And I told
1:10.2	related the story to Dame. And he was like, that's not, that's not, that's not, yeah, Mack fishing.
1:17.6	Yeah. Mack fishing. Did they ever find a drill fight out who it was? No. But the dude, the dude was like,
1:24.0	what up scrap. And he was like, and this is not the only time this happened to me in my career.
1:28.2	It's also happened to me where ACON, I've told that story many times. The fake ACON, I call it
1:32.4	fake on. It's like Jay Farrow with the Jay Z job. Yeah, but if you had the details and you like,
1:38.5	when I was on a phone with the fake ACON, everything that was happening at ACON's life, this
1:42.0	dude was on a phone with saying, talking about it right. And then he asked me for some money. Wow. Yeah, man. And
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