I might very well have posted this here before, i posted it on my blog a couple of years ago but i know there are a lot of new posters here that might find this very interesting.
there's several casses of Puff Daddy taking credit where it's not due (DJ Enuff producing "You're Nobody" for BIG, when the album dropped it was Produced by Puff Daddy, co-produced by DJ Enuff; Buckwild's "I Got A Story to Tell" got a co-production credit for Puff Daddy despite him wanting to scrap the track when they couldnt clear the sample; BIG's "Juicy" by Pete Rock, etc.) but this is one of the worst for sure.
i was reading Prodigy's "My Infamous Life", where he tells that he was invited to spit with Havoc on "Last Dayz" with BIG but backed out but the interesting part is this - and i quote: "After a long studio session, Hav was so drunk that he left his beat disc in the machine - leaving behind all six songs he had crafted that day instead of one. Somebody ended up using one of the beats for Black Rob's "I Love You Baby" on the Puff Daddy & The Family album. I could tell as soon as I heard it because it had Havoc's signature drums, bass line, and all. "Hav, that's your beat!" I said when we heard the track. "That motherfucker stole your beat!"
In the booklet the song is credited to Ron "AMEN-RA" Lawrence with co-production by Jay "Waxxx" Garfield (a producer i really like btw) and has additional Baby Grand piano played by Stevie J. This track definitely has Havoc written all over it, from the classical sinister strings, to the hardboiled bass line and rhythm track. The accoustic piano parts were probably added on by Stevie J as the credits say and i would guess that J Waxx, unknowing it was a beat snatch, cleaned it up a bit or whatever, but this is most def a Havoc beat. Luckily Black Rob spits two dope verses on it, while Pappa Diddy Pop only has one at the end. Makes you wonder if this was standard practices at the Bad Boy offices and studios?
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