Young Guru Speaks On Jay Electronica’s Album [Video]
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Young Guru Speaks On New Jay-Z Album And “Watch The Throne” Sequel
Young Guru sat down with Complex to speak on Jay-Z’s next solo LP and “Watch The Throne 2”. On Jay-Z’s upcoming solo album: “Jay-Z is always working on stuff, it’s a concept that I can’t talk about but I’m marveled at how smart this guy is. When he told me the concept, I was like ‘Why didn’t I think of that?’ It was just so simple. It’s not a concept album though. It’s not like American Gangster, it’s not a Beatles concept album. It has a concept and a title, and the title and the concept fit him so well that people are going to be like ‘Wow.’” “I like certain writers because it takes me 8,000 paragraphs to get my full point across. When somebody can take what I just said and condense it into two sentences and still have the same effectiveness, that’s a good writer. The simplicity of the title and the concept that it conveys is incredible.” “I can’t tell you the title, it’s so good it’s like, ‘Oh my god why didn’t I think of that? What made you think of that and why haven’t we done that before?’ It’s just staring us in the face all these years, we could’ve been put that out as an album concept.” On the possibility of Watch The Throne 2: “It’s definitely a serious consideration. Hasn’t been underway yet but definitely serious consideration. Has been talked about but hasn’t been executed yet. Definitely could happen. A lot of
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Artists need their people. Gimel ‘Young Guru’ Keaton is Jay-Z’s people. When the rap-conquering MC and world-conquering mogul steps into the booth (as he continues to do, despite frequent retirement threats), Young Guru is outside, at the board, making sure Hova sounds good. Since 1999 – a staggering twelve years – this has been the way of things. Along the way, Guru has recorded pretty much every other A-list MCs. Some say he has the Midas touch. Watch as he speaks on doing what you love first and foremost, and a couple tricks of the trade. Previously: Young Guru Interview w/ Al Lindstrom (Pt. 2) [Video]
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In part 2 of our interview, we talk with Young Guru about the success of J. Cole. We ask him how he feels about the sales of the album, after most people counted Cole out for a lack of a radio hit. We also talk about fan loyalty, the labels approach to digital music sales, and we ask if Watch The Throne’s sale strategy hurt the sales in the long run. Previously: Young Guru Speaks On “Watch The Throne”, Roc Nation, J. Cole & Jay Electronica [Video]
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In part 1 of our interview with Young Guru we talk Roc Nation. First we talk about the creation of Watch The Throne and the part he played, what he worked on with J. Cole, and if Jay Electronica missed his moment.
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