Jay-Z delivered one of his most memorable verses in recent memory on DJ Khaled’s “God Did.” Now, his friend and longtime producer Young Guru revealed that Hov spit the feature in one take.
In a conversation with GQ’s Frazier Tharpe and Genius’s Rob Markman, Guru explained how the verse came together and why he’s still amazed by Jay-Z’s genius.
“People think I’m still not amazed when he walk in and do these verses,” he said. “And this one was different because normally, we’ll sit down, we’ll do a song, three verses, two verses or whatever, and he’ll have a verse and then we’ll figure out what’s next.”
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