After watching that travesty of a rap diss below, I ran across Andrew (good looks on the Mick Luter!) at Fake Shore Drive’s post about a little bit of controversy that bubbled between Chi-Town native Payroll and one Kanye West. I’ll let Andrew tell it…
The beef stemmed from the track below, Payroll’s “Never Change”. Back in the early parts of this decade, when Kanye was just a young up-and-coming producer, he produced a track for a rising Chicago “gangster” rapper (sorry, you know how I hate labels), by the name of Payroll, and that track became known as “Never Change”. A short while later an almost identical version of “Never Change” showed up on one of this decades biggest hip hop albums, Jay-Z’s the Blueprint. To add insult to injury, Kanye re-spit Payroll’s hook “I’m still fuckin’ with crime, cause Crime pays, Out hustlin’, same clothes for days”, bar for bar on Jigga’s version. Needless to say, Payroll was a little less than pleased when he heard his exact song, that he’d paid for, on a Jay-Z album.
Listen to the tracks and decide for yourself.
DOWNLOAD: Payroll – Never Change (Prod. by Kanye West)
DOWNLOAD: Jay-Z – Never Change (Prod. by Kanye West)
well….thats fucked up
WOWWWWW… jack move. Although he did sell the same beat to rhymefest and 213.
Still tho… the beat is one thing. The hook is another.
yeah I see that dudes song got jacked…but damn, why all of a sudden 7 fuckin years later, is this a situation dude is bring up?
i never understood that either. artists take 5+ years to bring shit up like this. makes no sense.
Haha who cares, Jay MERKED this beat… Payroll was meh.
Where’s the proof that Payroll didn’t just download the “Never Change” beat and record a version with him spitting the hook in it?
I’m wit DJ Mydas. I need some proof. But if it is plagiarism, then Kanye’s the hip hop Jason Blair.
damn…
lolz…
well did he…?
damn….
yeezy should have just….?
damn…
lmfao.
“that piss was digital”
no more words
I mean, even if there is proof that he had the song before Jay, where’s the proof that Kanye didn’t just give him the hook, too and let him spit it?
If you go over to Fake Shore Drives place he seems to make it clear that this has been common knowledge (in the Chi area at least) for a while but just forgotten about as of late.
yeah, this coming up now.. no ones gonna care. this is a classic kanye beat and jay-z track. not gonna change.
does anyone else have that “Thank You and Goodbye” book? maybe this is what Kanye was talking about. the artist that he worked with that ended up dicking him (i mean the man had leather jackets on lay-a-way!), but in the end the beats ended up on Jay’s albums?
guess this is the guy.
that’s “Thank You and You’re Welcome”. my fault.
IMUS FUCKED UP AGAIN
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/entertainment/2008013332_apimusracecomment.html
well he’s gettin’ his 15 minutes right about now and if he’s been grindin’ he’ll be ready to cash in.
It’s pretty simple.
and can Payroll make it Glow in the Dark?
Thank You and You’re Welcome!
I read the article. Just because it’s “common knowledge” doesn’t mean it’s true. I just want some kind of proof. I’m not saying dude’s making this all up, either. I’m sure he has a legitimate beef, but a bunch of people in the street telling me that Kanye jacked him isn’t enough.
he shouldn´t have re-spit payroll’s hook, but you have to agree that the jay z-interpretation of this is ten times bigger than the payroll-version.