As people are coming through, they’re laying verses to it. He had Dwele come do a version, and had other people do different versions. The way he works is, he brings people in to do different things, like there was 10 different choruses. When he first played it, everything was completely different. Kanye says it took over 500 hours for that one song. Hold this one for me.” I went back and found out that “Power” was his first single. Every week, he was like, “Hold these two for me. I came back home, continued to send him beats. After that, I stayed in Hawaii for a couple of weeks, helping him on the My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy album. The whole time, I was like, “Kanye is actually rapping to my beat.” That was my whole mindstate at that particular time, just in disbelief of that. He had completely different verses on it, the chorus was completely different, but it was just super dope. I already recorded to one, I want you to check it out.” He plays it, and it was the original “Power” beat. You make me just want to write rap again. When I went into the studio, it was Rhymefest and Kanye.
West wants you in the studio,” so I wound up going to the studio straight from the hotel. This was like two or three in the morning. When I get there, the first place we go to is the hotel to drop my stuff off. A couple of days later, I get an email from Kanye’s manager saying, “Get to the airport, your flight leaves tomorrow morning.” So I went out to Hawaii. Two or three days later, he hits me back in a text saying, “Kanye is loving your stuff, he says he’s about to change your life.” I’m tripping out. I sent him the beats, and I included that beat in the batch I sent him for Kanye. If I get the opportunity, I’ll try to play them for him.” So after his album comes out…he hits me one day like, “I’m in the studio with Kanye, send me some beats. I never sent it to him, and it just kind of sat on my desktop. But at that time, his first album hadn’t dropped yet. He had already released his first album, and we started talking about ideas for his new project. Everything started to come together on the song. I was like, “Nah, I could do better.” One day I was in the studio and I took another swing at it. I wound up not actually working with it for a few weeks because any time I would go to do something to it, it just wasn’t right. I knew as soon as I heard it there was something special about it. I downloaded the album, went through it, and came across this one particular song that had these chants. I came across this sample from a record by this group in Australia called Continent Number 6.
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