808s lowkey

He did some great interviews after the album dropped.

If I remember correctly Jay gave him a playlist to sample from.

10/10 album

he is one of my fav producer oat

this been known my friend

yeah I do remember jay saying he hand pick the tracks to be sampled for the record, it’s really cool that jay was so hands on in the making of his most personal and reflective project.
and no ID was the perfect guy for the job of using Jay’s selections to make this wonderful piece of art.

those same people who call sampling stealing go dead silent when you point out all those rock bands that they love straight up stealing riffs, chord progressions and entire songs from older blues/soul artists

real as F***

but yeah no id smoked 444

Slaaaamin Bentley doors ….

Yep

yeah he crazy for this one

I thought these were made for cole and cole told no id give em to jay

nope, where’d you hear that from?

18:30 mark

Amazing interview if u got some free time

A little after that, I decided to just do 500 ideas in a short amount of time. It’s like shooting free throws in the gym. I’m going to do this until I have something new. When I got up in the hundreds, I thought I had something new. The first person I actually went to see was J. Cole. I played him them and said, “Who do you think I should give this to?” I wanted a different perspective. We discussed some things, and it led to me hitting Jay-Z up

rollingstone.com/music/music-features/444-producer-no-i-d-talks-pushing-jay-z-creating-500-ideas-253045

The playlist thing was later apparently

Wow that video in op is great

bro, i've been saying this ever since 4:44 dropped, but nobody listens mannnn

every song here has immaculate sampling, mixed with some very crisp delicious 808s, just

plus, that song with beyoncé, when she sings ON TOP of the her own sample is just goosebumps

i would love to have more goat producers (alchemist, kanye) to do entire albums with other artists these days, there's only goatness that could come from this type of concentrated effort:

DAYTONA (classic)
ALFREDO (classic)
4:44 (freaking classic)
LULU, Alc x Conway (such a classic EP)

anyway, you get the point

him and Nas are great together too. No I.D. is the main reason Life Is Good sounded great

I didn’t know he chopped it up that much damn

the 4:44 titular track sample is crazy cause you would've thought it was from like the 70s but its from a song a random artist released in like 2016, great sample ear and it's one of the best beats on the album

No ID second to the GOAT whats new

That’s exactly why I want him. His work with 40+ rappers Hov, Common and Nas to make grown man records is elite.

4:44 deserved an award

The mixing & mastering on the album is pretty weak in my opinion. The drums dont hit hard enough, the bass is too quiet on some songs, and I feel like Jay Z 's vocals just need to brought up on every trakc

but yeah the beats are immaculate