The man behind the boards on Kanye’s new single talks with MTV about how the record came about.
“The way it came together, I work with Rhymefest,” S1 told MTV News about the song, referring to another Chicago MC. “I did like four joints on his album. And one day, out the blue, I got a text from Rhymefest that said, ‘Kanye is loving your stuff, he said he’s about to change your life.’ Two days later, I got an e-mail that said my flight to Hawaii [where West recorded much of the album] leaves in three hours! So I was on a flight, and it just happened like that. I went down and stayed for like two weeks, banged out some joints.
“The ‘Power’ joint that we did, it was actually a track that I already made and gave to Rhymefest, and he just so happened to play it for Kanye in the studio and he loved it. So when I got out to Hawaii, Kanye had already recorded to it.”
A month later, S1 returned to Hawaii and heard “Power” again, this time with more “polish” added by ‘Ye, who co-produced the song. However, S1 picked the sample that drives the record: a snippet of British progressive rock band King Crimson’s “21st Century Schizoid Man.”
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nevermind just went to the MTV site
damn that was quick, song jus came out a few hours ago
Damn that nigga just got a life-changing break
his son, vohn beats, is a beasts and he is 11 years old
sounds like some secret hideout yes pad in hawaii, your flight leaves in 3hrs?? lol
any way cant wait for yes new album!!
i hope he got paid
time to bump “the healing”. dude is a problem…
kanye a real cool dude
Damn. Good thing he checks his email.
S1 been grindin for a long time good for him!!! dude been makin crack for a long time…his son is dope too!
gotta love that King Crimson sample. Ye is back up in this bitch!
S1, his beats on the strange fruit project tapes are classics each and every single one of them…
S1 deserves it. He has been hustling for a minute.
Crazy ish, is that I live out here and the closest I ever came to seeing Ye was bumping into his girl around my internship. Dude must’ve been holed up in the Bat Cave—and I still never got my damn concert. [shrug]
@Decapitah didn’t kno his son was Vohn Beats yea that kid is nice
life changing experience
props to him and Ye
that shit has to be crazy…. yo flight leaves in three hours… and your life is changed forever… ups to that dude for leaving it all behind. i know it was some bullshit going on that was trying to keep him back too. make it happen s1… ye created a monster to yo shit
S1 BEEN that nigga! So glad he bout to get some shine. Hope this works out well for him. The Healing = a banger.
Nice to see S1 getting recognized. Hope some more underground producers will get their time under the limelights soon.
so when is the next SFP cd going to drop..