Longshot – Healthy Self Esteem (Behind The Scenes with Brandon Allday) + Jay-Z Talks The Blueprint 3 Album Art

Longshot – Healthy Self Esteem (Prod. Brandon Allday) (MP3) | Link

Chicago MC Longshot and producer Brandon Allday of Big Quarters came together to create a fresh new track for Longshot’s new mixtape Future of Chi. This is a behind the scenes look on how everything went down. YouTube description:

New track from Chicago based artist Longshot, called Healthy Self Esteem. Produced by Brandon Allday of Big Quarters. Coming soon the break down your doors single from Longshot called The Real U produced by Jake One on Rhymesayers entertainment. Keep your eyes open.

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Jay-Z explains his new album cover. Reminds me of one of my favorite albums ever.

“These things are like the forgotten pieces in hip-hop,” Hov explained. “It’s still about music. It’s not about radio, making gimmicks — it’s still about making music. Those things are piled in the corner. These are the forgotten things about music. It’s still about music. It’s not about radio, it’s not about making gimmicks, it’s about music. The three stripes that everybody is asking about is made from the original [number] three. The first three they made on the wall was someone carving. If you look at [the number] 3, all they did was connect lines. The whole thing about this album, how I approached it, is that I wanted to make a new classic to start that all over again — to go back to making classic albums like the ones we grew up listening to.”

If you forgot what it looks like – check it out here.