45 King On The Making Of Jay-Z’s “Hard Knock Life”
Sunday, February 21 2010 10:05 PM EST | Posted by: YN | Posted in: Blog, FocusWhile 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.





Man, miss me with the fake Jay and B quotes already. Headlines. Some of you sites will do anything for attention and traffic. You really believed B would speak to Star magazine? Tuck your tabloid in. And why would Hov need to write a letter to his daughter? Bitch please. He wrote a song! It's called "Glory" and it's pretty fuckin' revealing. He went on the record (double entendre) but you still don't get it. You may hear baby Blue's first cries but no you don't know her height, weight or what she looks like. And no you ain't gettin' a flick, fool. Can new parents get some privacy? Even if they are celebrities. Sheesh! Who raised you animals? Party at the 40/40. Paps outside. Rushin' the velvet rope. Don't trip over your integrity.
Put us here if you like. The RR store stays open 24/7. SOPA? Yeah we Showcase Our Product Always. And we're gonna continue straight ahead til somebody up there turns out the lights. Start from scratch? I'm not afraid.
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!!!!
Dope!
Great Find! I Co-Sign Disel
cool as hell
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.
ON POINT HOW IT CAME TOGETHER NICE INTERVIEW…DONT MESS UP MY DRUMS LOL.
JIGGA!
This is why I come to RapRadar for posts like this….Thank you sir, where can I find the rest YN?
one take hov, im killin this rap shit
Not a bad return on a 25-cent investment.
nice find
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
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 ?
Greatest!
watch the beat kings and see 45 talk about buying the annie record for a quarter.
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.
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
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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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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……………….:-)