![]() I was so excited to be trying out for that song. The appropriately titled My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy comes from a heavily scrutinized time in Kanye Wests career. I was so nervous when I played it for Kanye. Having risen from obscurity as a precocious producer through the ranks of Jay Z's Roc-A-Fella records, by the time he released My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (MBDTF) in late 2010, West had evolved into a master collagist, an alchemist capable of transfiguring semi-obscure soul samples and indelible beats into a brash and vulnerable new art form. That’s not a DJ thing when you hear my voice go like that. I did all the scratches and the cuts myself with my voice. He put me in another room by myself and said, “Go.” I came back with a whole intro and chorus. So then he tells me to do “Dark Fantasy.” At the time it was pretty empty, just verses. ![]() Like I said, we were more fashion friends. Yo, can you put some backgrounds on this song ‘Hell of a Life’?” He knew I was signed to Pharrell and all that, but I guess he didn’t know what I could really do. So he hears me and is like, “You can really sing. I came in there humming! I knew what I was doing. He’s like, “I knew you’d like this!” Then he started playing his album and I start humming and doing some little runs to what I’m hearing on the sly tip. I’m not even a morning person and he wanted me to come at 9 a.m. ![]() Even though the invite really was to check out clothes, I had told myself I was going to get on that album-whether he knew or not. ![]()
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