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“I seen something on the cover of the XXL: ‘The Death of the Super-Producer?’ ” Swizz said. “It was on the cover. I was like, ‘I hope the f— they not talking about me.’ ”
Swizz’s career demise seems unfathomable. Besides Whitney Houston, he’s working on that new DMX album, as well as some tracks for Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3.
“I’ve been kicking since ’98,” Swizz said, “That’s what I told Hova: ‘We did it in ’99, and we ’bout to do it in ’09.’ That’s a blessing. I’ve been around. “I’m starting to feel like a senior citizen,” Swizz laughed. “I have people coming to me, saying, ‘I started to listen to you when I was 9.’ But I gotta remember: I started when I was, like, 16, 17. I’mma be 31 in September. Sh– is crazy.”
Swizz said he and Jay should finish up some of their new work together this weekend. “I like the album,” Swizz said of Blueprint 3. “He gotta say a lot. You know who to come through for the gutter [beats]. He just called me from London, spazzin’. Me and Jay, we’re so much into the art of music, and we’re great friends. This album, we happened to get into a little bit. That sh– is super fun. We’re still working.”
On DMX’s hip-hop album: “By him not coming out on Summer Jam gave us the freedom to do everything we’re doing right now [to make the album at our own pace],” Swizzy said. “I’m about to drop this joint that was supposed to be DMX and Jada, but it’s gonna be DMX and Eve. I want people to hear Eve in that hard element again. Continue reading this post…
