DJ Khaled Earned Kanye West’s Respect, “He Don’t Just F*ck With Anybody”

Written By S. Samuel

Def Jam South President DJ Khaled recently talked about his working relationship with Kanye West and how the Grammy-winning superstar is not your typical emcee.

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Recalling his past experience working with him and T-Pain on “Go Hard,” Khaled said Yeezy has to respect artists before linking up.

Kanye is great friend of mine. He was doing a show in Miami, and so I went backstage to try and find him. It’s hard to get with Kanye. You got to have patience, and he don’t just f*ck with just anybody; everybody doesn’t get a verse from him. ‘Ye has to really respect you to work with you. So I’m talking to him in the lounge area at the arena and I played him ‘Out Here Grindin” before it leaked and he went crazy. And then I played him the ‘Go Hard’ beat, and I started singing the hook right there myself. His eyes opened up wide, and I knew he understood my energy.” (VIBE)

Aside from being an executive and producer, Khaled recently defended his decision to rhyme on the “All I Do Is Win” remix.

“I love music, [Ross] is definitely gonna be a ghost writer for me,” Khaled told DJ Envy in an interview. “I ain’t hiding it…Everybody said ‘Khaled you need to spit something one day,’ so I said you know what, it’s only right that I do it on the ‘All I Do Is Win’ remix and I waited four albums to do it. I’m not a rapper, I’m having fun. You will hear a few verses once in a blue moon, just doing my thing. Shout-out to Swizz Beatz, my brother had took it to another level. Shout-out Puff Daddy, I’m just doing what I do. I love music.” (Power 105.1)

Earlier this year, Khaled spoke on his placement in hip-hop.

“I’m like the LA Reid of hip-hop, the Berry Gordy of hip-hop,” Khaled told radio personality Jenny Boom Boom. “I feel like I’m the executive right now that’s in the streets and going to take it to the next level, that’s the goal, you know what I’m saying? That’s the next goal. At Def Jam, we’re one big team, and I’m an executive at Def Jam, office in Miami, but I gotta come to NewYork, do big meetings…LA Reid is a boss — those [firing reports] are rumors, that’s not happening. He hired me, so I’m with LA Reid for life, man. Shout-outs to LA Reid, one of the best execs in the game and also he’s a music guy, he’s another Berry Gordy.” (“Jenny Boom Boom TV”)

The hitmaker recently discussed how involved he is with artist development.

“DJ Khaled’s involvement is everything in the record,” Khaled said in an interview speaking of himself. “DJ Khaled comes up with the concept. DJ Khaled gets with the producer and is either me making it or somebody else making it with me orchestrating the situation. DJ Khaled is bringing the energy from the artist, to me, to the producer, then to the room. I am Berry Gordy of hip-hop.” (All Hip Hop)

Check out Kanye West’s “Go Hard” music video below:

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Written by S. Samuel

Steven Samuel is the co-founder of SOHH.com.

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  1. Eminem is awesome but he needs to stop producing right now. He is the GOAT rapper, a funny dude, and Slaughterhouse is lucky to have this opportunity. But he is trapping hot artists with horrible beats because he wants to “produce” both this album and Yelawolf’s album were musically very bad.

    • uhhh need to get your facts straight man. I agree with you that Yelawolf’s album sucked, especially compared to Trunk Music but that’s all Yelawolf. Em didn’t make all those beats and actually had very little to do with the production, the problem was he just let Yela do what he wanted, just like Slaughterhouse.

    • I don’t know if you’re actually reading the articles that you’re posting on, but the artists in question have expressed satisfaction at the music they’ve gotten from Em and have said they were more than happy with it. So, if that’s the case and they’re not lying, then they are to blame just as much as you blame Em.

    • Of course they are gonna say they like it publically! They don’t want to bite the hand that feeds them and end up like Canibus did after he said Wyclef made him a whack album back in 1998 (even tho he was right).
      And when it comes to “knowing how the industry works”, you have to realize that 4 average looking dudes named “Slughterhouse” who spit hard raps are never going to be able to make a mainstream splash. So in their effort to hav songs that may have some radio friendliness they failed and alienated their core audience at the same time.

  2. Well even though I was a little let down with this project, if they do the projected 60,000 units I’m happy for them, they all deserve it, I guess in the current sales environment that’s not too bad considering they aren’t on the radio all day and night like YMCMB, shit it’s better than Yelawolf’s 40,000. I still can’t believe how much the digital era has screwed up record sales for artists compared to the 90’s.

  3. every eminem album has those shitty pop songs that i hate and it seems like this album had at least half of them.. plus fuck the features.. there is already 4 dudes on every song so u dont need busta or swiss. look at 36 chambers every single member of wutang wasnt on every single song

    • What do you consider “pop songs”? I mean, frankly, I don’t like SH period as a group. I’m a big fan of Royce and Eminem, but the other 3 I have never been a fan of and I’m not a fan of this group. I’ve made myself TRY to get into them, but I just can’t. That said, I’m just curious to know what songs in specific you’re talking about on this album and in general when you say “every eminem album has those shitty pop songs”… Do you understand how the industry works? Just about every album out there that’s martketable has radio friendly songs that you refer to as “pop” songs.

    • songs that sound like they should have rihanna on it. like that ” sky full of lighters” type of shit. (from bad meets evil) and for a group that came up on the concept of “real rap” and “straight lyrics” i just think they watered it down

  4. if they want to make pop sounding songs to sell records, then thats fine, but i think they should have made a double cd and had the”on the house” mixtape be the second cd for the real fans that have ben following them since before they were a group.

  5. I have tried so hard to like this group, but I just can’t do it. To me, this group only has one emceee worth listening to and that’s Royce. No hate, just opinion. I am a hip hop purist and I HATE the current crop of artists. I despise where this game has gone and been going and truthfully, the only 2 CURRENT artists I listen to are Eminem and Ice Cube (not including Royce). The rest of the hip hop I listen to is from the 90’s and 80’s. I just can’t get into this group and to me, they’re completely overrated.

    • Have you tried to get into Ab-Soul, Kendrick Lamar and TDE? Those cats spit hard as hell and Black Hippy (a supergroup consisting of Ab, Kendrick, Jay Rock and Schoolboy Q) goes where slaughter house can’t (to me)

  6. Royce is great and everythin but sometimes he needs to get that white chocolate d!ck out his mouth man

  7. @ all you fuckin clowns :

    The ones who read slaughterhouse posts and blogs and waste their time by being negative is a joke to me, bruh. The Big Sean’s, and Lil Wayne’s of the industry is fuckin up the game and ya’ll aint seein it. All you clowns that hate in real music mostly focus on mainstream hype and how much money you think they got. Wayne rapped about earning 200 million the year prior to Carter 4 coming out. He’s barely worth 90 mill. Ya’ll need to pop open that slaughterhouse album, and LISTEN, don’t HEAR IT, listen to it and if you aint moved by the entire CD, you’re a fuckin clown, mayne. Lyrically name 3 artist that can spit line for line with Nickel? I’d say EM, maybe Jay and maybe NAS… what does that tell you? Lyrically these dudes are genius. Never like Joe Budden in the past cause his shit was just awful at the go, but listen to this dude on “GoodBye” and “Truth or Truth” from their mixtape and tell me if you think different. Stop polluting your ears with this garbage music thats on the radio and listen to some real shit. Yelawolf, one of my favorite artists out, been to 3 of his live shows, and honestly, fuck the mainstream hype, this dude is the real deal. Delivery, content, everything is just so unique and nothing like that is out right now. When I buy records, i dont look at popularity or soundscan numbers, only content and production and delivery. Slaughterhouse will murder, murk, body, any group yall can think of and lets not even get started with Eminem, that dude is a beast

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