Cyrus Langhorne
Def Jam rapper 2 Chainz recently spoke on his admiration for music mogul Jay Z and revealed his intent to clock-in studio time with him.
According to Chainz, he’s eager to put together a long-awaited collaboration with Young Hov.
“Jay Z,” Chainz said when asked what hip-hop artist he immediately needs to collaborate with. “Yup. You know, we see each other. I’m one of those people whose rapped for a long time before anyone even knew [me]. I’m not like, ‘Let’s do a cipher. Let’s go to the studio right now.’ I don’t even know how to do that with rappers. It’s just gotta kind of happen. ‘Book some time and vibe.’ I don’t even know how to do it. … Rappers are awkward to me. We are stupid geniuses. So when I’m in a room full of rappers, you kind of just wait until they be like, ‘Let me get your number’ or ‘Give me your email,’ or you just don’t. You let it come to you. That’s what it is. You just let it come to you. With the Jay Z thing, I do know he’s worked with a lot of artists from Atlanta, whether it be Jeezy, T.I., so that’s the exciting part. He gave a Southern artist a shot and [we] followed some of the same footsteps as far as a young drug dealer turned into an entrepreneur. That kind of path. That’s kind of exciting to me.” (Power 106)
Recently, Chainz talked about working alongside rap star Lil Wayne for their ColleGrove joint album.
“[Why the secret?] I think that’s the new way to promote and market things. The original way or the old way was to set a date to get the fans excited about putting the project out and then doing marketing and promo leading up to the album. But today’s youth’s attention span is so short I felt like I could just put out an album and the impulse of it being a surprise album would drive them to buy the project. So it’s called ColleGrove. … This album is my album but it’s like my dedication to him – I have a great relationship with Cash Money/Young Money. He’s like my brother, my friend, actually my favorite rapper. So I just felt like it was time to put out a project or somebody to just acknowledge the fact that he had a lot to do with moving the culture to where it is now.” (“The Wendy Williams Show”)
Rap star Kanye West revealed the project’s cover art a few weeks ago.
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/705045482872016896
