When the negotiations for Eminem started to happen, and until he actually go on the track, was it kind of like watching a sort of report on the news? Then things kind of started to take shape. You know, because there’s just no way to live up to the hype. But I kind of felt also, like if it didn’t have Eminem on it we shouldn’t even put the song out at all. Yeah, and we kind of talked about ways that we could complete the song, because I felt that it might be kind of unrealistic. Then it was like we just didn’t have anything to finish the track, you know? It was open. I just kept telling Krizz, “That verse is special. You’ve done a lot of chopper verses before, that’s all good, you’ve impressed me before with this kind of shit.” But that particular verse on “Speedom”, that shit, there’s something very special about that verse. Krizz’s verse on it was, like, whew, one of Krizz’s best verses. Man…that verse. I remember Krizz did it, his verse first on it. And then, finally, he did his verse on it, ah, and killed it. That’s the only thing, literally, that will top it.” Tech ran from it and ran from it and ran from it. We’re like, “Dude, there’s only one way to top this and you know that. When this album came around and he told me he wanted this to be part two, I was like, “Well, how could we top this?” You know, Busta Rhymes and Twista and Yelawolf…the best choppers. I mean, should we do it or not?” I was like, “Nah man, you shouldn’t try to do ‘Worldwide Choppers II’.” He was like, “Dude, why not? Maybe we should just use the same beat and put new people on it. I remember on Something Else, Tech called and said, “Should we do ‘Worldwide Choppers II’?” I said, “No”. We just had it and he was not recording it, because he knew that we had discussed it being “Worldwide Choppers II” and talked about the people we’d want to put on it and everything. That was one he ran from for a really long time. He came back from tour and we started recording songs. So that’s a good thing, because I was like, “Okay, now I’m on the right track for the album.” I sent it to Tech when he was on tour and he freaked out about it. I just thought it was going to be “Speedom”. I didn’t even know it was going to be a “Worldwide Choppers” song. I didn’t know it was going to become what it is. Other beats will take me two weeks, but that one took me three days – just making sure everything was perfect on it. All of these beats took me two or three days. How did the song progress after you tracked the guitars?*Īfter that, I finished the beat. Sometimes it’s hard to bring that out of a player, but if a player already knows what you’re going for it makes it a far smoother session. He knows if I’m looking for a very specific thing when I bring a musician in. Yeah, plus he understands me. He knows what I’m going for. It’s good to have an engineer that can play instruments. I mean Ben played guitar on over half of the album. It’s cool because we work together all day, so it’s easy to go to him. Instantly after I had the guitars I was like “This is going to be dope.”īen (Strange Music’s in-house engineer). It was based off the Richie Haven’s song and we tracked the guitarist for that first. Some of the little techniques and stuff – like “How can I make this Special Effects?” Whatever I do with this beat is going to sort of lay the blueprint for what we do with this album. “Speedom” was the first song we did for the album. This song was one of Tech’s ideas originally. Take us back to the beginning and tell us how this song started. We talked to Seven about the song, and he explains how “Speedom” went from an idea in Tech’s head to to a musical masterpiece. The mix of acoustic guitar cuts, pounding drums, and Seven’s trademark esoteric sound effects make for one of Tech N9ne’s most memorable beats. The song also marks a height of production for the man behind the boards for much of Strange Music’s releases, producer Seven. The insane chopping from Tech, Krizz Kaliko and Eminem makes the track a pinnacle of lyricism, flow and cadence (not to mention, it’s the most anticipated Tech N9ne collaboration ever). Tech N9ne’s “Speedom” (from Special Effects) pushed back the collective wig of hip hop fans everywhere.
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