Unknown Artist - Ain't Hard To Tell / No More Tearsĭevin Kroes, Resonant Language - Misty PeaksĮAZYBAKED, kLL sMTH - Simulated (kLL sMTH Remix)

Sleeper, Mesck, Thelem - Strawberry Cough thx for understanding.)Īrtifakts, Daily Bread - Wadsworth Sta. so this is just mixed on my laptop in traktor. They just don’t get it sometimes.(PS- If the mixing seems rough, its bc i had to sell my dj board due to a car wreck then reagrivating an injury so havent been able to work. I don’t get it.’ They don’t know the swag, they don’t know how to get on the record. But the artist be like, ‘What the fuck is that. Just like how DJs know when to put a record on and how to scratch it in at a right time to get the crowd reacting a certain way. When you making records, the producers are feeling it a certain way. “Craig was like, ‘This beat is wack, I don’t know what to do on this.’ Puff is like, ‘You rap! Nigga, that’s what you do.’ And Craig is like, ‘Where’s the instruments, where’s the bass?’ We were like, ‘Nigga, you don’t feel that?’ Puff basically had to drag him in the booth kicking and screaming to get on the beat. Puff was jumping up and down kicking the walls like, ‘Nigga, if you don’t rhyme on this fucking record!’ He was going in. “Craig Mack is like, ‘This Mickey Mouse beat man.I don’t know what the fuck I’ma do on this.’ I was like, ‘You are bugging!' And so we had this 30 to 50 minute argument. Easy Mo Bee says, ‘We gonna play you a record and we want you to tell us what you think.’ They play the beat to ‘Flava In Your Ear’ and I’m like, ‘What the fuck is this?’ Mo Bee was like, ‘Told you!’ to Craig Mack. Easy Mo Bee, Puff Daddy, and Craig Mack all walk in.

I’m in the Hit Factory in the small room and I’m working on something. That sound he had for like two or three years. He never got caught up in it but he had a sound. He used to have his SP12 on the floor in his crib. This guy just lived in a small apartment in Brooklyn. Since today is the track's 18 year anniversary, it only makes to sense to share the borderline hilarious story of how it was crafted.Īs told to Insanul Ahmed ( Trackmasters Recall The Making of 'Flava In Ya Ear' However, there was one story they shared that didn't quite fit with the rest.Īlthough Easy Mo Bee produced Craig Mack's 1994 classic 'Flava In Ya Ear'-a song best remembered for its remix that featured a show-stealing Notorious B.I.G. verse-Trackmasters were in the studio with Puff Daddy during the making of the original record. We recently spoke with Poke and Tone of legendary production duo Trackmasters and they told us the crazy stories behind the making of many classic hip-hop records.

Craig mack flava in ya ear acapella