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Jay-Z has revealed that Kayne West wanted to include 'Holy Grail' and 'Oceans' from his latest LP Magna Carta Holy Grail on their collaborative Watch The Throne album.
Today and throughout out this week, BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe will air his new interview with Jay-Z.
The Hov revealed to Lowe that he had already started working on the Magna Carta Holy Grail tracks 'Holy Grail' (featuring Justin Timberlake) and 'Oceans' (featuring Frank Ocean) around the time he was working on Watch the Throne with West.
He says that he and Yeezy agreed that after they did the album together, they'd start working on their new solo albums. Jay had made those two tracks and played them for Kanye, which instigated a 'four-day argumen't about it they should've been on WTT or held for MCHG.
Jay-Z said: "[There were] no lyrics on 'Holy Grail' and I recorded 'Oceans' and I played those records for Kanye and he was like, 'no those have to go on Watch the Throne,' so we spent four days arguing about those records and I was explaining to him why it wasn't right for this project and I had a whole idea for making this album called Magna Carta... Holy Grail [part of] the name came after."
The rapper also explained that the arguing was civil, "four days literally arguing... not like fighting. Well, there was some pushing at one point but not between us, just everyone else got a little excited."
Watch the video for 'Otis' by Jay-Z and Kanye West below:
Last week, it emerged that the follow-up to Watch The Throne, may be coming sooner than we'd thought, after a Twitter conversation between two producers has led to speculation surrounding the progress of the record.
Last May, Kanye's producer Mike Dean told Quiet Lunch that he had signed up to the project but that work had not started on it yet. Since then, all has gone quiet on the record's progress with both artists releasing solo album in recent weeks. Now, after a Twitter conversation between Dean and Hudson Mohawke, Watch The Throne 2 could be a reality much sooner rather than later.
Mohawke took to Twtitter to slate Jay-Z's latest release, Magna Carta Holy Grail, saying: “hove is not quite ready, had a gang of my stuff to choose from n passed up on it for his record. Ye on th other hand unafraid to take risks”, before adding: “This record could’ve came out 10yrs ago n no one would’ve batted an eye lid."
Dean then responded “Why the negativity? crown = goat track…easy!”, before Mohawke replied “not negativity just honest opinion i think it’s lazy, just my own opinion. Not hating”.
Then came the Tweet that excited fans most when Dean replied: “all g, just we’re all fam. don’t burn your bridge for WTT 2!” Mohawke came back with “you just set the Internet on fire w that wtt2 comment hahaaa”, before Dean finally added: “yep. It’s happening.”
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