NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 01: Edo.G performs during the YO! MTV Raps 30th Anniversary Live Event at Barclays Center on June 1, 2018 in New York City.
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EDO. G Talks Failed KRS-One Collab: "Jive Wanted $30,000 For the Verse"

EDO. G Talks Failed KRS-One Collab: "Jive Wanted $30,000 For the Verse"

Published Mon, March 14, 2022 at 10:30 AM EDT

Edo.G  was a guest recently on Soren Baker’s Unique Access podcast and spoke about a KRS-One feature that never saw the light of day. “It would have been difficult at the time to get Chuck D on the album (Life Of A Kid In The Ghetto), but we did have KRS-One and we were gonna get Pac. We were gonna do a song with KRS-One, Tupac and Craig G. We ended up getting KRS’s verse and Jive Records wanted $30,000 for the verse” Ed explained.

“It shut down the whole song. The song was 'How Its' Supposed To Be' Jive said 30 and KRS at the time was the top artist on the song, but if I couldn’t get him I didn’t wanna do the song. He came through and did his verse and I figured Pac and Craig will be easy now. 30 racks for KRS in 1990? We still put it out on the rarities and demos album, so Jive can eat it, but it would have had a much bigger impact back then if that would have came out.”

 

Ed also spoke on Erick Sermon coming into the sessions for “Be A Father to Your Child”. “They were recording one of their EPMD albums at the time at Power Play. I still had my EPMD posters on the wall, so for Erick to come through and say the beat was dope was huge validation before the record even came out.”

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