The Surf Club producer sits down with MTV and revels in the success of his No. 1 single with Jay-Z and Kanye West.
“The crazy thing about the ‘Paris’ record is that record just came out of nowhere, pretty much,” Hit-Boy told MTV News last week. “I did other records that were talked about being singles and all types of stuff, so I was hyped over those records.”
Instead, the superstar duo chose to run with “N—as in Paris,” a brash celebration of success over a bouncy beat, mashed up with Will Ferrell sound bites.
Though it was Hit-Boy who came up with the initial version of the track, he credits ‘Ye with the addition of the former “SNL” funnyman. “Genius. That’s just the genius that ‘Ye is. He always comes up with these ideas that just takes music to a whole ‘nother level,” Hit-Boy gushed. “Just something that’s never been done before.” – MTV
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lmao @ people acting like artists haven’t been putting movie sound bites into their songs for decades
@BNF
give him the benefit of the doubt, he was probably talking about kanye’s production style in general lol
yo the thing is after finding out what Cray really means the sound bites were genius. that’s why people talk about the movie clips so much. you got to put 2 and 2 together. “No one knows what it means (the true meaning behind Cray), but its provocative. just like the clip said. we all thought it meant crazy in french. lol. but it meant something else way left field.
The new Preemo. LOL
Don Trip & Starlito’s ‘Step Brothers’ mixtape came out a month or so earlier with the same sound bites.. Who hasn’t Kanye ripped off??
Its so obvious Kanye is becoming Dr. Dre in terms of actually producing things. Hit Boy is really sucking at the teet and stroking ye’s ego here. He’s not a genius for inserting a will ferrel sample. That anyone would insinuate such is what’s so wrong with DJ/Producer culture to begin with, there’s such a low standard for musical ‘genius’