Jazzy Jay

Rick came to me and was like, “I want you to teach me how to program some beats.” I was using the DMX [and] when we did “Planet Rock” we used the Roland 808, and I had a couple other drum machines so everything I had, he went out and bought. Then we went through the tedious process of trying to teach him how to start making beats. [Later] I came back to his dorm and he said, “I just made a beat. I want you to listen to it.” It was the rough draft of “It’s Yours.” I was like, “Yeah, it’s alright.” I started fooling around with it, put in a drum roll here, a little tap there. He was like, “I’m thinking about going in the studio with this. Special K wrote the lyrics and his brother’s gonna do the lyrics cause [K’s] still signed to Sugar Hill Records so he can’t do it, but his brother’s a good rapper.” I hadn’t met T La Rock even though I knew Special K for years, then I met him and we clicked.