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Kanye West Told Statik Selektah ‘Jazz Was Dead,’ So He Went And Made A Jazz Album
According to MTV:
In March 2010, Statik was invited to one of Kanye West’s infamous My Beautiful Dark Fantasyrecording sessions in Hawaii, and at the suggestion of Nas, played one particular jazz-infused beat for Yeezy.
“The first beat I played him was the Nas one; Kanye sat there and listened for like 10 seconds and he pressed stop and he was like: ‘It’s cool, but jazz is dead,’” Statik recalled during an interview with MTV News. “I was just happy to be there, but the way he said that to me always stuck in mind. This album was definitely inspired by that.”
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