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Jay-Z's Engineer Young Guru Speaks On New Hov Solo Album & A 'Watch The Throne 2' Disc "It's Definitely A Serious Consideration"
If you're a Jay-Z fan you have heard Young Guru's name shouted out by the rapper many times on records. He is Hov's No. 1 engineer. If anybody knows what Jay has planned musically is would be Guru.
Complex caught up with Guru recently to talk about two projects that are on everyone's minds.
Young Guru
On Jay-Z's upcoming solo album:
"Jay-Z is always working on stuff, it’s a concept that I can’t talk about but I’m marveled at how smart this guy is. When he told me the concept, I was like ‘Why didn’t I think of that?’ It was just so simple. It’s not a concept album though. It’s not like American Gangster, it’s not a Beatles concept album. It has a concept and a title, and the title and the concept fit him so well that people are going to be like ‘Wow.’"
"I like certain writers because it takes me 8,000 paragraphs to get my full point across. When somebody can take what I just said and condense it into two sentences and still have the same effectiveness, that’s a good writer. The simplicity of the title and the concept that it conveys is incredible."
"I can’t tell you the title, it’s so good it’s like, ‘Oh my god why didn’t I think of that? What made you think of that and why haven’t we done that before?’ It’s just staring us in the face all these years, we could’ve been put that out as an album concept."
On the possibility of Watch The Throne 2:
"It's definitely a serious consideration. Hasn’t been underway yet but definitely serious consideration. Has been talked about but hasn’t been executed yet. Definitely could happen. A lot of artists just say sh*t too but if you think about it, this is just my opinion, the way I would like it to go-I would like Kanye to do the G.O.O.D. Music album and Jay-Z to do a solo album then they go out and tour and do all that sh*t and then next year, or the end of the year, we get Watch the Throne 2. To me, that would be the best thing to happen. I think the G.O.O.D. Music album is necessary for Kanye to establish that brand because they need to establish [themselves]."
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Comment by Mookie on March 7, 2012 at 9:41am -
I CAN'T WAIT FOR ANOTHER WTT 2
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Comment by Martiis Mack on March 7, 2012 at 5:46am -
Smart dude!
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Comment by F***THEWORLD on March 6, 2012 at 11:09pm
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so what is the "Good" in Good music suppose to mean???
anyway, didnt like watch the throne! Wudda been better if
kanye wudda got replaced with someone else!!!
all he can talk about is dumb s***!
the BP3 was better! I'll wait on the next jay album!!!!!
Also where's Yayos Album?
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Comment by dave on March 6, 2012 at 10:54pm -
Watch The Throne was pure genius. What's wrong with some of ya'll?
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Comment by Gangstarr on March 6, 2012 at 10:34pm -
Hell Yeah IT was garbage. But the point I cant understand. I read comments about this or these kinda albums and everbody says it is garbage but the result is not like that. Everybody says nicki is nothing. Yeah Im down with that idea but when you checked her a video out on youtube, counter displays 200 M. times watched. Sometimes I feel Im in a fake world like in Truman Show.
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Comment by Hue Jastle on March 6, 2012 at 9:03pm -
honestly... I'm a hard core hip hop fan... watch the throne was garbage
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Comment by Hue Jastle on March 6, 2012 at 9:02pm
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notice every rapper's money grab is "this album was successful... I'll name my next album the same but call it 2"
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Comment by Ace *Major Pain* on March 6, 2012 at 7:56pm -
Cant wait for all three of those albums. GOOD Music alum gonna be fire i can already tell
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Comment by QuEeNsFiNeSt on March 6, 2012 at 5:37pm -
Wait For The Real Rap On His Next Album Hip Hop Needs It
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