Fong Sai U Tells Us How Much He Owes Guru For Helping Put Him On: “He Would Give Me Jewels”

Written By Cyrus Langhorne

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[SOHH highlights a hot record every week and offers a behind-the-scenes look at the smash in Singled Out. After Snoh broke down her Common-assisted “Bad Things” music video, West Coast rapper Fong Sai U decodes his Guru-featured “What’s Real” anthem.]

I met Guru on a tour in 2000 and after that, we just hung together all the time. I would go to the studio and rock with him and just basically ride with him all the time and he would give me jewels.

He was doing the Baldhead Slick album and I did a beat on there for him and Teflon called “O.G. Talk” and when I did that beat, basically me and Guru swapped it out. He was like, “Yo, I’ll throw you a verse.”

So I was like, “That’s love.” So I did the beat for “What’s Real,” and we got in the studio, everybody was drinking that night, and I started thinking about “Beat Street” and I was like, “That sh*t Ramo was saying was kinda dope.” That was like a real staple in hip-hop.

If you don’t know who Ramo is, that’s real. “Beat Street, Wild Style, Krush Groove.” ll that sh*t is like the foundation of hip-hop. I asked him to incorporate all of that into the song so I did the hook and Guru came behind me and banged it out.

Matter of fact, “What’s Real” had three beats at one time and I got two more unreleased but we just chopped it down to that one.

It was a time that I will always remember. Rest in peace Guru. I’ll always take everything that man taught me, even that time in the studio with him getting developed and developing myself at the time because that was the first man that put me on a record as a producer.

That whole moment, that one song, takes me back to that day.

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Written by Cyrus Langhorne

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