![]() ![]() And Beyonce was like, “It needs 808 in it.” It’s a tough task to merge an 808 with a live bass. When I first presented it to her, there was no 808 in it. She wanted that bottom end, she wanted to dance. That’s the one you guys hear.īeyoncé wanted the track to be a little more hip-hop-friendly. And he’s like, “Nah.” And then he went back in and did another version. So he went in there and he laid something completely different. And then he went to the booth and he laid it down, and it was a different rap. He was sitting down in the chair, listening to it over and over again. Jay doesn’t write his words down on paper, of course. He was trying to catch the beat, ’cause the beat is a little unconventional. I remember when Jay first went in the booth. Next thing you know, Jay’s in his booth and he’s laying down verses too, and I was like, “Whoa, this is becoming bigger than what I thought.” And I was like, what? I had to go back to New York. We did the record and then I got the call that Jay was gonna rap on it. You’re just like, whoa, she nailed it - and she did exactly what she said she was gonna do. Next thing you know, it turns into, like, a 13, just that quick. It could be a little bit something extra, maybe just a little rasp or something in it. And she’ll say, “Let me get that again.” And you kind of look at her like “B, you nailed it.” And she says, “I can get it better.” It’s a 10, and she’ll keep going. You can push her and she wants to be pushed, but she pushes herself too, because there’s moments where she’ll do something and it’s flawless and everybody in the room knows it’s flawless. And the thing about her too, is she pushes herself. She has that same type of intensity in the booth. I’m telling you, when I work with her, it reminds me so much of working with Michael. That song had a lot of harmonies and notes that were somewhat unconventional for regular, mainstream music. We had Auto-Tune, but we didn’t use it on her. You gotta remember, we weren’t using Auto-Tune. She attacked things so raw and in your face. But I watch it and it just blows my mind. And one day hopefully in my documentary, the world will get to see it. ![]() Sometimes I go back and watch her and Jay-Z in the booth. I just remember Beyoncé blowing our minds in the booth. Then she came up with the whole idea of the whole intro. I wanna make this really big.” And she was like, “Let’s do it.” And of course, when I played it for Beyoncé the first time, I’m like, “Yo, I want to put live horns on this. I was already envisioning the live horns and everything, because I was playing synthetic horns. Instead, I wanted you to be able to listen to the instrumental and it takes you on a journey. A lot of music is all about that quick four-to-eight bar loop that just keeps going the whole way. I wanted to give her that Michael Jackson change, going to a major seventh chord. Next thing you know, between Deia Thomas and Mekeba Riddick, the vocals and the lyrics started to come together quickly. I started playing that and Jon-Jon started playing that crazy bass line. Despite it being his first time sailing, it seemed to come easily to him-like he had done it in a past life.We were listening to the Off the Wall album, listening to “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough.” My studio was not even five minutes from 7-11, and on our way back, we went right to the studio and I started going “da, da” - that little guitar-line, with a guitar sound I had on my keys. In the 2019 book Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, he recounted a sailing trip he took on his friend’s boat. While Crosby was a long-time believer in karmic energy, there was a specific incident that inspired the lyrics. How else can I explain knowing how to sing harmonies at age six and having a persistent delusion, all my life, of having been somebody else before.” The identity print gets wiped, mostly, but sometimes there’s a ghost print and some stuff hangs around. In the liner notes of the 1991 box set, Crosby, Stills & Nash, he reiterated that point saying, “The law of conservation of energy applies: life force just doesn’t go away. “I’m one of those people who thinks we go round again,” said Crosby back in 2008. In light of Crosby’s death earlier this week, we’re going through the meaning behind the track below. Though it wasn’t released as a single, it gave that iconic album its name and has subsequently received its fair share of love from CSNY fans. The late David Crosby penned “Déjà Vu” for the group. ![]()
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