You already knew that Jay-Z doesn’t write down any of his rhymes. However in a preview of his upcoming two-part interview with Gayle King for CBS Mornings slated to air on Thursday and Friday (Oct. 26 and 27), the morning anchor takes a stroll by means of the Brooklyn Public Library’s smash “Guide of HOV” exhibit honoring the MC, the place she discovers the origin story of Jigga’s famed “one-take HOV” nickname.
“This was once you have been recording to precise tape. So, you possibly can’t mess up, ‘trigger you then bought to go all the way in which again and reduce the tape,” Jay defined because the pair stroll by a show of his grasp tapes. “That’s the place the entire ‘One-Take HOV’ got here from. As a result of in the event you wished a fly refrain on this factor, you needed to go to dinner. It took an engineer hours to chop the tape… fly it over right here… So I begin studying my lyrics actually good so I may do them one time—you perceive—straight down, and I didn’t waste time.”
On Monday, King teased one other bit from the interview wherein Jay lastly settled a long-running social media debate that asks followers to decide on between lunch with Jigga or a $500,000 test. “You’ve gotta take the cash,” the rapper mentioned, noting that his greatest fiscal knowledge in already in his work. “You’ve bought all that within the music for $10.99… I wouldn’t let you know to chop a foul deal. Like, take the $500,000, go purchase some albums, and hearken to the albums,” he continued. “It’s all there. In case you piece it collectively and actually hearken to the music for the phrases, nicely, what it’s, it’s all there.”
The 2-parter will function a personal tour of the library’s “Guide of HOV” exhibit, which pays tribute to Jay’s sprawling profession, from his Grammy-winning catalog to his landmark enterprise offers in sports activities, music, alcohol, movie and public service.
Take a look at a preview of the Jay-Z/King interview beneath.
