Subscribe via Apple, Spotify, or YouTube. It was nominated for Best Video of the Year and won the Viewers Choice Award at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1998. People’s Party is a weekly interview show hosted by Talib Kweli with big-name guests exploring hip-hop, culture, and politics. Its All About the Benjamins has several videos with the offical video featuring Puff Daddy, the LOX and Lil Kim performing the song in a dimply-lit concert venue and in a forest where the rappers are either running or rappin. The rest is rock-and-roll history: Puff’s delivery of the line, “Now, what y’all wanna do? Wanna be ballers? Shot callers? Brawler? / Who be dippin’ in the Benz with the spoilers / On the low from the Jake in the Taurus,” became a rap institution and “All About The Benjamins” helped launch guest stars The Lox (of which Jadakiss is a member along with Sheek and Styles P) into hip-hop superstardom, beginning a 23-plus year career that continues to this day with the release of Ignatius.Ĭheck out the snippet from the next episode of Apple’s No. He heard it and was like, ‘Nah, that’s me, let me get that rhyme right there.'” He happened to just come in and hear me rhyming and I already had that rhyme. We would be in the midi room and Biggie or Puff would be working in the other two rooms. It didn’t grasp us at the time - we wasn’t eager to record it.” However, he says, “We was in the midi room just rapping. We didn’t really understand what that beat was. “He almost forced us to record the verses that we have on there. “Me and Sheek didn’t like ‘The Benjamins,'” Jada explains. When asked by co-host Jasmin Leigh about who wrote Puff Daddy‘s verse on the 1997 breakout hit “All About The Benjamins,” Jada readily admitted that the iconic verse was all his and shared the story of how it wound up coming out of the Bad Boy founder’s mouth. "That really was like, our first commercial and 'hood hit that catapulted us besides the mixtape stuff that we was doing." Diddy's final "All About the Benjamins" verse wasn't how it was initially penned, because Jadakiss also revealed that the rap mogul "did about four versions of it."Ĭheck out what else Jadakiss had to say below, including bits about Mase writing for Kanye and how he felt about being mentioned in Yeezy's 2005 hit "Touch the Sky.On the next episode of People’s Party With Talib Kweli, guest Jadakiss sits down with his fellow New Yorker to promote his new album Ignatius, but also winds up resolving a 23-year-old mystery. Luister naar Its All About The Benjamins (Rock Remix I) van Puff Daddy & The Family, 14,095 Shazams, in Apple Music-playlists The LOX Essentials en Hip-Hop/R&B Hits: 1997. "That's what makes Diddy Diddy," Jadakiss added. Yet, Diddy had a vision and knew it would be a hit. Provided to YouTube by Bad Boy RecordsAll About the Benjamins Diddy Lil' Kim The Lox The Notorious B.I.G.Bad Boy's 10th Anniversary- The Hits 2004 B. We didn't really understand what that grasp us at the time.
He took that and put that on 'Benjamins.' Me and didn't like the 'Benjamins.' He almost forced us to record the verses that we have on there. Puff Daddy - Its All About The Benjamins (Remix) (Official Music Video) Duración 5:13 Tamaño 7. " He heard it and was like, 'Nah, that's me. "I already had that rhyme," the rapper said of Diddy's verse. According to Jadakiss, he was just minding his business, spittin' a few bars when Diddy overheard him.
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