Just Blaze pointed out that before he became a household name, he sat in the studio sessions of some best Hip Hop song made on the East Coast during the late ’90s and early 2000’s “I saw most of the East Coast Classic Hip Hop Records from 97-2001 get made,” he said. ” I was watching Chucky Thompson work. I watched Havoc make Godfather pt III and White Lines. I saw Big Pun in the studio,” he continued.
Even when his beats started to get placed on records, Just Blaze admitted he wasn’t ready to be a producer. “I got the call to produce on Eminem’s second album and I wasn’t ready for that. The goal is no matter what call you get. You are ready for it, or you got somebody on your team who is ready. For the first years, I was making beats, I wasn’t producing.”
It wasn’t until he got the approval from JAY Z, that he realized he was ready to be a producer. “I changed some things around on some vocals he did, and I was nervous because I didn’t know what he was going to say,” Just Blaze said about JAY Z. “So he comes in and I tell him what I did, and says let me hear it. And I when I played it for him, he just said yeah; and I was like is that good? He told, you the producer, that’s what I pay you for.”
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