In The Making Of History: Just Blaze Breaks Down the Making Of Jay Z’s ‘PSA’

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Last week Revolt TV teased a snippet of super producer Just Blaze talking about his production on Jay Z’s 10 year old The Black Album, and now a full clip is out of Just explaining how the “Public Service Announcement” song came together. It’s an interesting take as Just Blaze explains that Jay Z was finished recording the album when he came across the sample.

As reported by hiphopdx.com:

“In addition to producing both ‘December 4th’ and ‘Interlude,’ New Jersey producer Just Blaze was also responsible for laying down the musical foundation for The Black Album track, “Public Service Announcement.” But according to the producer, The Black Album was already turned in before he came across the inspiration for the roughly three-minute long song thanks to a good friend of his.

Just Blaze later revealed that he created the beat for the song in about 10 minutes and was able to submit the track to Jay Z the next day, which ironically was the same day the Brooklyn rapper was taking part in a handful of The Black Album listening sessions for the press.

‘So, I made the ‘PSA’ beat in the headphones while the engineer was mixing one of the records we was working on,’ he said. ‘I made the beat in like 10 minutes and I ran over to the studio and Jay had—around the corner, back to Baseline [Studios] and Jay had left already. So, the next day Jay’s doing listening sessions for the press for The Black Album…I’m like ‘Nah, you gotta come in here.’ And I play it and at first his reaction was just like and I’m like ‘Do you not hear what we’re all hearing?’”

Just Blaze also shed sight into how Jay Z makes records. Just says Jay Z made the song while going back and forth between doing press for the album. It is interesting to think about how the whole thing came about like it was meant to be because  it would be hard to imagine The Black Album without “Public Service Announcement.”

Check out the Just Blaze interview below.

 

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