Examining the Late Producers influence on Music
By:Jarrod Horton
Staff Writer
In 1997 James Dewitt Yancey help produced the first single for Janet Jackson’s “Velvet Rope” Album, the title of the song was “Got till its Gone”. Here is Mr. Yancey explaining that experience: “Janet Jackson and how that whole thing worked out, it started with Q-Tip doing ‘Poetic Justice’ with her, how they met, they became cool friends. One day Tip called like he does for anybody else and asked me did I have anything for Janet. What happened is that Tip, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and I collaborated on this track and made it happened but when the song came out, it had that it was produced by someone else.”