45 King On The Making Of Jay-Z’s “Hard Knock Life”

While looking for BP3 tour footage from FLA, I stumbled across this video of what appears to be an excerpt from a documentary on enigmatic producer, Mark The 45 King. Here he and Hov talk about the making of Jay’s 1998 breakthrough hit. Kid Capri, the man who made the connect, is also featured.

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  1. mac DIESEL says:

    CAN’T BELIEVE THAT SHIT WAS 10 YEARS AGO!!!! THIS WAS THE SONG THAT PUT JAY INTO THE MAINSTREAM!!!! ILL SAMPLE!!!!

    DON’T HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!

  2. Pyth says:

    Great Find! I Co-Sign Disel

  3. coffee.black says:

    cool as hell

  4. _MelG_ says:

    dope insightful interview. its a shame ppl from “across the pond” pay homage to the pioneers of our culture more than we do here where it originated. i was “youtube digging” yesterday lol. once again, dope interview and great post.

  5. nirus xhonda says:

    ON POINT HOW IT CAME TOGETHER NICE INTERVIEW…DONT MESS UP MY DRUMS LOL.

  6. Frontrunner says:

    This is why I come to RapRadar for posts like this….Thank you sir, where can I find the rest YN?

  7. rocstar says:

    one take hov, im killin this rap shit

  8. MXL says:

    Not a bad return on a 25-cent investment.

  9. BIGsleep says:

    It’s from the national swedish television and their series “Hitlåtens historia” (History of a hit-record).
    The full clip is about 28 min and can be found here:

    http://svtplay.se/v/1867970/hitlatens_historia/del_2_av_6_hard_knock_life_ghetto_anthem_-_jay-z

  10. mike says:

    he did that jay song !
    he did that eminem song !!
    now he needs that Nasir SONG !!!

    45 KING iz a crazy producer thus who will have his third big hit ?

  11. yo says:

    watch the beat kings and see 45 talk about buying the annie record for a quarter.

  12. az5lyrics says:

    HOV THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME AND HE GONNA DO IT TILL HE IS 50 YEARS OLD
    NIGGAS WILL BE LIKE THATS IT NO ARGUEMENT, U ARE THE G.O.A.T.

  13. Drucifer says:

    I think people forget about all the hits this guy made for Latifah and the Flavor unit back in the day

    But I agree with what somebody up top said, He made “Stan” for Em, “Hard Knock Life” for jigga, he need to lace Nas with a classic next

  14. […] I love shit like this. I always thought 45 King was an interesting figure and this video is the story of how he made the beat for “Hard Knock Life” from Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life. You also hear and see Jay-Z & Kid Capri give their accounts. I don’t what documentary this is from but it seems well done and I would like to find out what it is. Spotted @ Rap Radar. […]

  15. Can says:

    This is really interesting. Just to throw it out there- I think it’s feasible that Hov could take The Beatles.

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  17. […] like the clip we discovered last night has a home. 45 King’s great production was highlighted on a Swedish TV […]

  18. prashant says:

    jay-z got incridible style of rapping,,,,,,, the side by side………….. i just love to listen that………. my bro is rapper. ew are living in india n searchin the platform to show our talent but ppl like to listen other kind of music style………… thats y we got to face more n more problemsssss
    but at the end jay-z got way to rap………………. spin that shit man……………….:-)

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