What's Jay-Z's hook gon be?

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OK, it's mid to late 2004, and Jay-Z is bored with retirement. He's ready to return to the charts, but he also wants to do something different. So he decides to pick a completely unknown producer - you - to record his next single. He gives you total creative control and requests only that it sound different from everything else on the radio but still gets played. In other words, you get to play tastemaker. So, what's Jay-Z's hook gon be? A Jaki Liebezeit loop? The intro to Nick Lowe's "No Reason?" A sample of some obscure favorite band you want to make rich off royalties?

The future of J-Hova and the Roc-A-Fella dynasty lies in your record collection!

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 November 2003 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

duh: "The streets need me"

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 17 November 2003 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

(sorry, didn't read first post carefully--thought you were asking what his hook for coming out of retirement would be)

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 17 November 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

John Cage 4'33.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 17 November 2003 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

chorus done in peanuts adult 'wah, wah wah wah, wah wah' voice

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 17 November 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Matos, that would be a great marketing hook. I'm talking about the musical hook, or more specificallly what sample you'd use. Though I did spend a minute or two trying to figure out what song you were referencing; Google didn't have any good links for "The Streets Need Me" (I'm shocked that's not a song name yet!).

But which performance of 4'33? Or would the chorus just be (relatively) silent!? Hmm...

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 November 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i got a hook for him

http://personal.inet.fi/cool/leffamaailma/topten/candyman.jpg

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 17 November 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd love to be in the audience the night Jay-Z returns and busts out the Peanuts voice!

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 November 2003 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

yin yang twins beat him to it.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 17 November 2003 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"Back in the Saddle" by Aerosmith would be perfect in every way (specifically the instrumental part just after the second "I'm back...." of the chorus - it's got the drive and it's got the pomp) and think of the ryhmes! saddle, battlin, tattlin, scatter! fatter, matter, wax on the platter!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 17 November 2003 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

This might be too on the nose, but how about a sample of LL's "Don't Call it a Comeback"?

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 17 November 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

haha he should sample his own song

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 17 November 2003 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

"I was using it wrong"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 17 November 2003 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

"I realize that now, and I apologize."

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 17 November 2003 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll vote for "Back in the Saddle" and up it one: It, like the rest of the comeback album, should be produced by Rick Rubin.

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 17 November 2003 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I was actually thinking 'more rubin plz' also

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 17 November 2003 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Who votes to have the whole comeback album produced by DJ Quik?

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 17 November 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll scratch Take That's 'back for good' into The Shirelles 'March (You'll be sorry)' the bit where they go

March! Hold your head up high
March! You WON'T find another guy
Another guy, oh NO

Please no more Rick Rubin, we already have 1 limp bizkit.

― scottjames23 (worrysome-man), Monday, 17 November 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

if he sampled "One More Chance" remix it would be HUGE!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 17 November 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Xinlisupreme, with Jay-Z shouting full-voice into the storm.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 17 November 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"If this record ain't as good as Biggie's record than it's the closest one"

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 17 November 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Theme from "Sanford and Son."

though it's likely been done already.

― Jonathan (Jonathan), Monday, 17 November 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"I need to feel like / somebody's watchin' me"

― Michael Patrick Brady (Michael Patrick Brady), Monday, 17 November 2003 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Sped-up vocals doing theme from "Greatest American Hero"

"Believe it or not, I'm walking on Air" etc

Nothing is too grandoise for that man...

― paulhw (paulhw), Monday, 17 November 2003 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

Revive!

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 12 October 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

*laments*

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

"My First Sony"

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 12 October 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

"Friends Forever" by Thunderbugs, video feature him being perhaps a little over pally with his hip-hop chums.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 12 October 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Jay & Cam Sip Martinis on Yacht (no hova)

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Thursday, 12 October 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Strangely, no one suggested a comic book by Mark Waid.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

i think i'd have him do a carpenters cover album. no rapping at all.

― Chris Grasinger (gman59), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

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