Mach-Hommy has recalled the time he blew JAY-Z’s thoughts with a visitor verse he penned for Jay Electronica’s A Written Testimony, though the verse by no means made the ultimate lower.
In an expansive cowl story with The FADER, the Haitian-American rapper spoke at size a few wild studio expertise he had with JAY-Z and Jay Electronica whereas the latter was engaged on his highly-anticipated debut album.
Whereas Mach was uncertain why his visitor look didn’t make the ultimate lower, he detailed what it was like working within the studio at Hov’s lavish mansion alongside Jay Elec and Younger Guru, and mentioned at one level he was in his bag in a approach that Hov actually loved.
“Quick ahead, I’m within the lab with Jay, Gu, and my man Dred who got here with me,” Mach mentioned. “Guru is taking part in information off the upcoming album with Jay and Jay Elect. They’d my favourite bottled water on deck, room temp, in order that was cool.
“We listened to some tracks. Jay would chime in each once in a while with some combine notes. Observe after observe he’s like Joaquin Phoenix’s character in Gladiator: thumbs up or thumbs down? Shit was surreal, within the second.”
He continued: “After about an hour or so, Gu performs this one observe. Then Jay is like, ‘Mach, you bought one thing for this?’ In the meantime, I can’t consider this n-gga HOV is asking me that?!? Like ‘N-gga, is the sky blue?’ Shit. Even at 3 within the morning, that motherfucker midnight blue, you realize what I’m saying?”
Mach-Hommy went on to say that JAY-Z disappeared for over two hours whereas he crafted his verse. When he returned, the Griselda affiliate apparently blew Hov’s thoughts to the purpose his hat fell off his head.
“We get to my half,” Mach mentioned. “He had the shit face going with the hand gestures and every little thing. About six or seven bars in, the n-gga JAY-Z’s Roc Nation hat flies again. I imply the hat flew. You hear me? Paper planes recent off the tarmac. That approach. ‘Mach, an excessive amount of Mach, an excessive amount of!’”
As if impressing JAY-Z wasn’t loopy sufficient, Mach then mentioned Beyoncé walked into the sales space and requested to listen to his rhymes for herself.
“Even I had no earthly thought what was about to occur, Beyoncé walks in,” he mentioned. “So now, it’s Bey, Jay, Mach-Hommy, Younger Guru, Alchemist, and my man Dred. Beyoncé is like, ‘The place’s the stuff you have been speaking about?’ She requested Gu to play sure information I used to be engaged on, the week prior, like two or 3 times in a row. What an expertise!
“Now it was time for the pièce de résistance, the verse that I recorded earlier that day. At that second, Gu’s about to press play, guess who walks in? Jay Elect enters. The file performs. Alchemist has one other match. Beyoncé infers, doesn’t inquire, ‘Y’all tryna damage anyone.’ When she mentioned that … that proper there was the best praise of the day.”
He concluded: “How’s that for a studio session?”
Jay Electronica’s A Written Testimony dropped on March 13, 2020 and was hailed as the most effective tasks of the yr by quite a few publications. The album was nominated for Greatest Rap Album on the 2021 Grammy Awards, however misplaced to Tyler, The Creator’s Name Me If You Get Misplaced.
As for Mach-Hommy, he dropped off his new single “Olajuwon” with Tha God Fahim on Thursday (March 2).
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