very first ones made. Whenever you make a track of that nature, with lyrics so real, it standsout.03 "Gimme The Loot"Produced by Easy Mo BeeEasy Mo Bee: When he did "Gimme The Loot" I was like, Whoa--dude's got problems!People who wanna battle him, go up against him? Nobody's gonna wanna battle this cat. If you heard everything he said in his lyrics, you won't live. I remember very clearly that thatsong was done during the daytime. It was still light outside. Junior M.A.F.I.A. was there. Iain't never really worked with nobody that really spit that hard before. So when I was in thestudio, I was like, "Yo, man you sure you ain't sayin' too much?" And I remember Cease andChico sittin' back and sayin', "Yo, Mo, just chill! You sensitive!" I was like, "I just wannamake sure we get sold. I don't want no records getting snatched off the shelves." That's mywhole thing. I guess that was their [definition] of being "sensitive."Maybe Puff didn't necessarily respond to me at the time when I came to him and presented[my concerns] to him, but I remember telling him, "Yo, the shit about being pregnant, and the'Number One Mom' pendant? Yo, be careful with that. Because you could have all kinds of Christian rights and women's rights organizations trying to pull your stuff down off theshelves and all that." At the time, Puffy kind of brushed it off. And I just walked away in mymind like, all right. But I guess later it made sense to him--even without him coming back tome. 'Cause [that lyric] got blurred out. So it worked out the way it was supposed to.[As far as Big rhyming the two different characters' voices], he went in the booth and then it just kind of happened. He just started doing it. He would do one voice, then come behind anddo the other one later--just like, leave a gap so he could come back and fill the spaces. I waslike, Yo, that's creative! And he really had cats fooled. Even just last year, I was aroundsomebody who was playing that, and still after all this time he was like, "Yo, who was that--that was Puff?" I was like, "Man, y'all really can't hear that? That's him! He did two voices."That just shows you how good he was.Mister Cee: I clearly remember "Gimme The Loot," because I did the scratches on it.Remembering that is like yesterday. I used Kid Hood's verse from A Tribe Called Quest's"Scenario (Remix)." And how I did the turntables and made the word "Bad, bad, bad" fromturning the knob off on the turntable from pressing the stop button. Each time that I broughtthe record back, it's a different effect to where you turn the knob off on the turntable to whereyou stop the turntable. You get a different effect on the record. So when you bring it regularlyit's like, "Bad." Turn the knob off, "Baaad"--slower. Press the button, "Baaaad"--slowest.04 "Machine Gun Funk"Produced by Easy Mo BeeEasy Mo Bee: Biggie picked that beat in my car. I had this green Acura, and we used to ridearound Brooklyn. Like Fulton St. and St. James where he lived. I'd pick him up off the stoopwhere he lived. It'd be me, him, D.Roc, Lil' Cease, Chico--as many as we could--ridin' aroundin the car. We'd just ride around and just blaze and listen to beats. And that's how he picked alot of the beats. But the actual session for "Machine Gun Funk"... It's vague to me, to behonest. Let's put it like this: There was some hazy years. I'm a changed man now.
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