I was like, "This is probably gonna be my next single, tell me if you fuck with it." He bodied it in a night.īefore we dropped the first one, Wayne asked me, “What you wanna call the tape?” And, being creative, I came with Dedication. That was probably one of the last records he did for Dedication 2. Wayne was working at Circle House there, and I went and played him the beat for “Cannon,” which at the time had T.I. So pretty much everybody in the rap world came to Miami for that video. And Khaled was doing the video for “Holla At Me” in Miami at the time. This is what I do.”Īround that time, I was working on the Gangsta Grillz album. This was the time when Wayne really was in the bag as far as “best rapper alive.” And that was around the time where Jay Z had quote unquote “retired.” Seeing that Wayne was next in line when it came to top MCs, I asked him: “Do you ever plan on retiring?” And he answered like, “I’ll retire when I’m dead. All I do is watch sports.” Hence, the title “Sportscenter.” I think Green Lantern made that beat, that tennis court beat. When I asked Wayne, he went, “Sports sports sports.
#DJ DRAMA LEFT RIGHT LEFT TV#
As a fan of the culture, it was like, What do people wanna hear? Wayne has so many fans - wouldn’t they be interested to know what his favorite TV show was? I can pretty much give it away now: when I would do a tape, I would almost write out a script as if I was doing an interview with an artist. That was one of my jewels to my early mixtape formulas. That was a time when I was pretty much writing scripts out for the tapes. He sent his stuff to me as a big chunk of music and I pieced it together the way I saw shit best. I recorded Dedication 2 at 147 Walker Street - my old studio, the one that got raided. Wayne rapped on “What You Know About That,” Tip’s biggest record. "Where The Cash At” originated on that tape, and later went on to be the single for Swizz Beats. I remember how people had reacted to him rapping on the Little Brother beat. It was interesting, the contrast to me between Dedication and Dedication 2: Wayne went in a lot of ways that people might not have expected. I spent a lot of time in the next month or so just gathering beats and sending him ideas. We chopped it up for a minute, like, "What’s up? You ready? You wanna go again?" And he’s like, "Yeah, let’s do it. Tip and Wayne had a show in, if I’m not mistaken, Detroit.
After Dedication one, I was DJing for T.I.
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