West revealed that this inspired him to produce all his tracks on Finding Forever in the same way the recently departed Dilla would have, in tribute to him.Īnother Kanye West production, the title of this song was taken from a song by Stevie Wonder and Syretta Wright and is about the problems that come once you've grown out of the circumstances you were born into. the director told him that he made the film AI in the way he imagined Stanley Kubrick would have told the story.
West said that during a meeting with Steven Spielberg. Set to be Finding Forever's first single, "The People" begins with a chopped interplay between the sampled "Louder!" and "Yeah!" from Mountain's ultimate breakbeat jam "Long Red." Not long ago "Long Red" was sampled by J Dilla for De La Soul's "Verbal Clap" on The Grind Date. Which brings us to the point that the version of Finding Forever we heard was not in sequence, not mastered, and not entirely complete, but we're going to tell you all about it anyway after the jump. He would periodically interject his own point or approach Common at the mixing board with ideas for new embellishments to add to the songs. Mr West spent the majority of the time on a couch listening with his eyes closed. Common described West as "the thread" of the album, as he produced nine of the 11 tracks played. The listening session for his upcoming album Finding Forever, due out in July, was held last week at Hollywood's Record Plant studio and featured special guest Kanye West. In between emanating deep Buddah vibes, dude lip syncs to every song, raises his fist whenever the word "black" is mentioned in his lyrics and tries to explain the actual meaning of each song.though he usually just ends up reciting at least one verse acapella to get his ideas across.
Few artists host listening sessions as well as Common.