Kanye West has his shortcomings, however loyalty isn’t one in all them — or in order that’s in accordance with his longtime buddy and collaborator Consequence.
Speaking to HipHopDX, Cons recalled how his and Ye’s verses from 2005’s “Gone” — which seems on Kanye’s second album, Late Registration, and likewise options Cam’ron — had been really presupposed to be on a Jennifer Lopez report.
“The first verse for ‘Gone’ was originally supposed to be on J.Lo’s ‘Get Right,’” Consequence informed DX. However, some “playa hating” from the pop star’s camp resulted in them simply wanting Kanye on the monitor.
“They didn’t want me to be on it,” Cons mentioned. “At the time they were just like, ‘We just wanna have Kanye on it.’ And Kanye was like, ‘Yo, if Cons don’t do it, I’m not doing it.’ Fact.”
So out of loyalty Kanye West took his verse off the report and used it for “Gone” which is now thought-about to be one his biggest tracks.
The single model of J.Lo’s “Get Right” — which was written by Rich Harrison and consists of writing credit from Usher and James Brown — was launched with no company, however the music’s remix options two verses Fabolous.
Elsewhere in his interview with DX, the Queens native recounted how GLC‘s “Spaceship” ended up being a Kanye West report and the deal he made to have it.
“‘Spaceship’ was GLC record that Kanye did for him and Kanye only done the chorus,” Cons defined. “So GLC was assembly Consequence from Tribe … So it was like, ‘Yo, you think I could get you on my joint.’ I used to be like, ‘Alright.’… I don’t actually rap like that in order that was actually me performing some Chicago shit.
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“When Ye heard my verse, that’s when he jumped on ‘Spaceship’ and then it made sense for him — in order to have both of us featured, and everybody loved ‘Spaceship,’ was to put ‘Spaceship’ on The College Dropout and give me back ‘The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.’”
Cons additionally defined how the humbling relatability of “Spaceship” made it a success, despite the fact that the Marvin Gaye-sampling monitor wasn’t a single.
“I think the story of ‘Spaceship’ is what people fell in love with,” he claimed. “I think the relatability of the 9-5 aspect of that song and not just the 9-5 aspect, but the evaluation of success and failure on that record is what a lot of people drew towards.”
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