Southern rap legend, Scarface did a couple of collabs (Get Out, Guess Who's Back, This Can't Be Life) with Jay-Z back around 2000-2002, and in a recent interview, he spoke on how phenomenal Jay's work ethics are in the studio.
“I met Jay-Z in 1998 or 1999. I was recording The Last of a Dying Breed and Jay-Z was out there doing something in L.A. and I met him," he recalled. "Jay-Z came in to lay a couple records down for me. He was so damn fast it was sick the shit that he did. For the longest I thought he had pre-written shit and he would drop that down. But as time went on, I realized he was a freak of nature. He can hear a beat three times, listen to the beat ride once all the way through, and then lay his verse. I’ll be at the board writing my verse and he’ll already be gone. He’ll come in there sit, chat, and launged, and then the beat will come on and he’ll write that shit in the middle of a conversation. The music will be playing and he’ll zero in and be like, ‘Ooh, ooh,’ and then lay that shit.”I totally get what he is saying. A while back, I had followed my rapper friend (Fulleffex) to the studio for this song he was going to record with a guest feature on it. The guest artist came around, and I noticed when the rapper got to the studio, he didn't have any rhyme book or anything with him. I thought maybe he would use his phone or something, but he just asked us to play the beat of he song. And after bobbing his head a couple of times, he ran (literally) into the booth, put the head phones on, and ratatatata! I swear, It was magically. I had never seen anything like that. He had constructed the whole 16 bar verse in his head, and it was relevant to the song my friend was making.
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