The Chef chops it up with MTV about his upcoming collaboration with Kanye West and Justin Bieber.
All I did was ride the beat and listen to what he was singing to. I can go basic when I want to. I can go rated R, I can go rated PG. I definitely didn’t give him anything that I thought was too hot to be spoken on by a 16-year-old. I know how to read beats, and listening to the record, I just complemented. At the end of my 16 [bars], when you do hear Justin coming, it fits and it’s a great sound. I didn’t go crazy. One thing people gotta recognize about me, I’m the Chef. I know how to make spicy food, I know how to make food that ain’t spicy. I made something that fit the criteria.
Rae also speaks on the recording session. Transcipt is included after the jump for those that can’t listen.
Kanye was just being Kanye. He was definitely excited. The energy in the room was already speaking for itself. It was time to get up and have fun on the track together. We was drinking, laughing, being normal cats. At the same time, we had a houseful of celebrities in the house as well. [Kanye] was moving through the facility checking out the studios he had. He had three studios in there.
You had Akon in the building. Mos Def was just chillin’. Mos is a good friend of ‘Ye’s. You had Charlie Wilson, the legendary cat from the Gap Band. Chris Rock walked in. These are guys that really respect who ‘Ye is. ‘Ye’s energy is cool. He’s a normal cat. A normal Chicago/world cat. Very mature. Having a great time.”
While I don’t have too much of a problem with this, I’m mainly excited that this remix has sparked the opportunity for future Kanye/Raekwon collabs.
We sat down and we talked about it, we talked about doing things in the future. This is just the beginning. This is something that was supposed to happen a long time ago. He started throwing on them tracks, ideas started coming to my head. I was like, ‘If this cat produces a Rae and Ghost record, what could come out of it?’ Every album, he evolves. He’s always doing the extra, or absurd, the abnormal, but it sounds crazy.
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either gonna be crazy or flop
Not really sure why everybody is getting so mad at Rae and Ye for this shit. Ludacris did a song with the kid and it didn’t really hurt him in any way.
It has no chance of being crazy. Whatever respect I had to the chef is now questioned. Justin Beaver? Are you serious?
This would actually be a really good track, I can imagine. The original Justin Bieber joint is SOOOO R&B that its ridiculous, so it’s not far fetched for 2 rappers to be involved on it. Especially a guy like Raekwon, who was featured on the HOTTEST R&B REMIX OF ALL TIME (JODECI’s “Freakin You”)
yall is fags, The Chef is a G. yall can’t appreciate a legend trying to make a little bread, and you know what it’s prolly gonna be dope
If you don’t like Rae because he did one song with Justin Bieber that YOU HAVEN’T HEARD YET, you were never a REAL fan in the first place. Listen to the song before you hate on it.
lol justin beieber
As gay as the idea of beiber and Raekwon is it might be pretty good. Eitherway i can see why Rae’s doing it, this isnt gonna just be free main stream publicity, hes gettin’ paid for it.
“See, it’s like, ok, where I come from In my neighborhood, my people know me Youknowhatimsaying? See, if I try to come any different They ain’t gon’ respect me no more Youknowhatimsaying? Because they — you know people Got their thing about themselves, you know If you come from the neighborhood, youknowhatimsaying
You couldn’t, you couldn’t get out the neighborhood But you could never take the neighborhood out of the people Youknowhatimsaying, but if you try to like jump and crossover To the other side, people understand that, and they don’t like that That’s why they don’t be buying people music See, we keeps it real, and we always gon’ keep it real You can’t knock what’s real, youknowhatimsaying? We telling the truth, man”
remember this? Dirty talkin’ on Rae’s Ason Jones joint
what happened Rae??
@kofi Luda fell off though haha. Fo real. Dude been spittin’ ABC raps this past year and a half. Battle of the Sexes was week all his features have been weak, on joints with weak artists. Luda losin’ it
Why can’t Rae be doing the song because it’ a good song? I don’t understand why there has to be some underlying reason why he’s doing the joint. Again, no one’s heard it but those involved.
Damn he’s working on this and not the power remix?
^^^ because Power sucks aswell haha Kanye fell off hard after Late Registration
@who cares
Fell of maybe to you but Luda had a very successful single an his last album sold better than the previous one.
it sold better because it was mainstream as fuck and had weak artists like Nicki Minaj
@kofi record sales don’t determine how good an artist is
TL;DR: Raekwon dumbs his verse down.
who cares, since when did Ye fall off?
It’s legit to call’em out for this. Imagine if 50 or Joe Budden did this. Y’all would be having a field day.
@SmokinAces only his first 2 albums went hard. Graduation was too mainstream sounding for me. And 808′s…..well you know bout that
Someone should hack his phone and loop Shame On A Nigga to play constantly.
Isn’t it cool when you cut your hair
And the blood is red instead of sellout green
This is not the music for an R&B mind
yeah seriously, fuck these guys for trying to have some fun. it’s not like bieber’s producers came up to kanye and rae and offered them each a hundred grand to do the song. they both liked the original track and decided to do a remix, the whole thing came about on twitter. kanye’s never been a guy that gives a fuck what his image is and raekwon, despite having been in the game longer than 99% of the rappers out there, still drops fire on a regular basis, so as far as i’m concerned those two can do what they want as long as it sounds good.
Raekwon… What the fuck?? I can’t really see why he’s doing this. Listen to Wu-Forever and what RZA says about turning hip-hop into R&B (rap & bullshit). Rae is going to regret this. This song is going to be hella gay.
HAHA, its gunna materialize soon!!! i cant wait… madd excited bout this for some odd reason…
n for the record, fuck yall hatin on a collab… sides that, it aint even like you heard the record yet so how can u hate?… stop bein ignint…
say all you want about kanye it only fuel to his fire. just wait til dudes album drops..
justin bieber makes pop music, but that doesn’t mean he’s wack. he just has a different audience. all it does is exposed rae to bieber’s audience, but if its a kanye track the quality will be high. people need to stop hatin on a 16 yo that gets more love from women then they’ll ever hope to get.
I hate you now Rae your not a chef your a broke puppet no other reason for being on that song besides the fact you got paid to be on it, dont act like you put all this thought into it and shit…FAGGOT!!!
Meh
It is ok if he does one song with a rapper which he already did but know I think justin beaver is going to be a wanna be rapper and pretty soon he’s gonna be bald and have tatoos and only wear white-t’s and drive lowriders and talk about the hood