Jay -Z, Where I'm From. The making of the track, by Ron Amen RA Lawrence

Ron "AMEN-RA" Lawrence gives a brief tutorial on how Jay-Z's "Where I'm From" track was created. This song was resampled and inspired the hit single, "Angels" and "Angels Remix"- by Diddy & Dirty Money, Featuring Rick Ross.

[@TonyMahoneybeats]

one of the hardest beats ever

[@Cryptic23]

UNHOLY PRIEST i think he meant as one of the grimiest toughest beats

[@mariodayon5744]

Yessssssssss

[@Kaustic410]

Underground Chamber Muzik that doesn’t mean it isn’t one of the hardest beats ever come on now

[@Dj_rueboi]

Company flow- 8 steps to perfection is the hardest beat ever

[@EffDinero8]

@Underground Chamber Muzik Hard in OUR culture means bitter beer face beat. #CultureVultures just don't get it... SMFH

[@1977Playmate]

is and forever will be my favorite Jay-z song. I'm a beat girl. I can go back as for as 1920. This just gets in my fucking bones. Play it at my funeral and watch my corps jump!

[@AdamBuzzard]

I'm obsessed with tracking this energy down.....who was before Yvonne Fair?

[@AdamBuzzard]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fH2kp6NsfdmLnJI

[@HIPHOPANTIFA]

wich is the original sample?

[@johndoe6189]

@@HIPHOPANTIFA kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3qtqqObjauYhtk

[@johndoe6189]

The real question is how did he remove th get at the end of the sample (the "a" of 4 if u count 16 notes 4-e-and-a)

[@jonmanos1116]

To the 3 people that disliked......"Where you from"????.......

[@kareemdurham2398]

under a rock city lmao

[@Joop175]

Not Marcy son

[@kingoneil211]

Da Bronx 🤣

[@TheRealMickeyFactz]

Jon Manos fire comment

[@STRENGTHSKATEBOARDS]

😄

[@WillieMeze]

YO THIS BEAT IS SOOO HARD MY GAWD!

[@mookeychase0907]

"When the blue vans would come we'd throw our work in the can and run'...I remember them blue vans

[@Macmittens411]

"How real is... THIS. How real is... THIS."

[@thekidrobb]

Salute to Amen-RA for the knowledge and generosity of sharing.

[@seanmcaloon131]

This is amazing! 16 levels! I always used to listen to the sample and wonder how he manipulated it to get that half step up and down. Plus the way he laced the kick with the drums already in the sample. Hard AF. One of the greatest songs ever.

[@marcy-brooklyn161]

Marcy Anthem...Word Up I'm standing behind Jigga in the red jacket....one of the dopest memories being in Marcy 🔥

[@nocxloayak7164]

Classic Material Ron, one of my favorite beats ever. I also remember 2 Kings in a cypher, for the brothers who aint here video, i think i still may have it on VHS.

[@Jackson-mi3dr]

This beat is extremely tough 🔥🔥

[@Ronamenralawrence]

Correction, Diamond who is a friend of mine, is not the first to use this sample. My inspiration came from Marley marley and Biz Markie who is actually first to discover it. I just used it differently than they did.

[@GeeCotto80]

FOUNDING FATHERS #Truth

[@mikeofdc]

Da Biz Markie version is slower

[@michaelglazier9932]

FOUNDING FATHERS Does it also have an open high hat over the snare?? Great beat by the way...

[@chriztianknewz7776]

Why they remove the official instrumental? I saved it in my feed and it was removed twice now I can't find it😱

[@SSChitownWild100s]

It’s an amazing how producers come up with samples. That small sample came from “Let Your Hair Down” by Yvonne Fair :55 sec mark

[@Deepbluecat]

Thanks for making this video Ron! It's a timeless classic beat

[@YOUTUBEMEMPHIS]

I'm from the south n that was my shit back in the day

[@TinoFiumaraBeats]

One of my favorite Jay-Z songs 🔥

[@giovannibatz2836]

LEGENDARY…. GREAT TIMES TO BE ALIVE … AMEN RA 🙏🏽🆙🖤❤️💯

[@NateFred]

the way he just held the platinum plaque at the end killed me loool

[@jboone7570]

This beat is amazing 💯🔥🔥🔥🔥❗

[@alextinajero6394]

He threw shots at Prodigy from Mobb Deep in the second line. And he wore a jersey like on their video. Back then those shots were subliminal. Love this song! Rap was so cool back then, now not so much.

[@deboman81]

I wow I didn’t realize he did that.

[@CPZBLH]

Amen Ra been a True Master since TKO! #RespectTheArchitects

[@AdamO.]

Genius, my favorite beat from Jay-Z albums

[@mrogers412]

Amazing... I was just listening to this song the other day...Its still potent today as though it just came out..Great Work....

[@DL-1]

This is dope. I wish that he would start making beat tutorials. Thank you for this video.

[@twinnsoniq]

One of my top ten favorite hip hop instrumentals. #salute

[@bosshova23]

One of the best beats ever my man

[@kidjupiter1755]

forever a classic

[@tigerpause444]

So much love and respect for your craft. Thank you for sharing.

[@rapgamepapi]

This was actually a game changer for Jay-Z. When he released the music video at the beginning of his movie people actually realized he was a real project dude from Brooklyn

[@onemusicgroup8249]

Thanks for sharing..a masterpiece

[@benitahecker4221]

Nice... This reminds me of when Marley Mar broke down how he produced LL's "Mama said knock u out"

[@TheReal12]

Amazing.

[@anthonyb9755]

One of the hardest by far

[@michaeldane75]

THE hardest Jay-Z/most others has ever done.

[@zachmorris3017]

History in the making........ To define this song it's like infinity........

[@JerzeyPrince23]

Fat Joe song too. Bad Bad Man from the album Represent

[@blizle2015]

Perfect beat

[@essex0926]

An fine tune that catches the essence of the hood. He made a dope beat from a small sample. Crazy. What instrument is makes that first pitch.

[@chi-townlowend1812]

This song and beat was 🔥 🔥🔥

[@germanguzman8521]

respect saw the video on complex about how your best hits were made

[@AIRJAVITUBE]

Inspirational fr!

[@RayzorBlade]

Even tho Fat Joe flipped it first, Jay-Z brought that Brooklyn flava to it. That beat remind u of chillin out in front of the projects in Brooklyn.

[@raulmaragh5094]

Biz Markie 1st

[@BoomSkwad47]

One of the most villainous beats. Tufffff

[@beatz04]

LOL - right when i was thinking "..and that made him a fortune" he showed the platinum award.

[@siyakwitshana3885]

This is Fire 🔥

[@onlypimpseattacoswiththeir3017]

Classic dope💯💪

[@algernonfranklin3193]

Legal Dope. I love this tracc and song.

[@corleonejr2159]

What synth is that for the bass??

[@tenslider6722]

sounds like the normal bass patch the JV2080, famously used by Swizz Beat.

[@dylanlopez9961]

@@tenslider6722 so would it be an electric bass sampled onto the synth?

[@tenslider6722]

@@dylanlopez9961 If I remember correctly, the Jv2080 didn't have a sampler although it has a memory card slot to save patches. that's an electric bass patch mixed with an extra low end to compliment the kick.

[@Coachxxxl]

Biz used this first in 1989

[@lewdiggz]

Word "check it out"

[@BigTrisStreams]

Why tf are you announcing that here yo?

[@closedfiles]

@@BigTrisStreams What, Biz shouldn't get props for using it first?

[@layzboy9857]

@@BigTrisStreams because 90% of the people in the comments don’t know the Biz Markie Song.. that’s why

[@DuckAlertBeats]

@@BigTrisStreams Wasn't that strange to mention it was it?

[@sheldontaylor2002]

Ron---This is Sheldon. This was used on the Diabolical Biz album?

[@closedfiles]

YEP, and in 91 on Diamond Shell's album

[@loislane4358]

Sampled From Let Ya Hair Down by Yvonne Fair

[@dandrelewis2938]

DOPE.

[@daoppgrvyrd777]

My second favorite Jay z joint behind can I live I let it be go so hard

[@ENDUBMEXI253]

what's the name of the sample?

[@thecrossing8715]

Yvonne Fair - Let Your Hair Down 🎵 kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJvEZKaVrsZnf8U

[@Takeitinnblood]

“This song was resampled and inspired the hit single, "Angels" and "Angels Remix"- by Diddy & Dirty Money, Featuring Rick Ross.“ - This beat itself is sampled from Biz Markie’s, “Check It Out”, though.

[@ENDUBMEXI253]

do you know the name of the original song sample?

[@870mac]

@@ENDUBMEXI253 Yvonne Fair -Let Your Hair Down

[@ENDUBMEXI253]

@@870mac THANK YOU FAM

[@godschild7964]

i just learned alot in that little bit of time. i think i missed my calling.

[@thecouchpotato09]

It's never too late.

[@godschild7964]

@@thecouchpotato09 maybe your right, i suffer from having low vision. so bad vision good hearing. i listen and hear things very well.

[@yoKentucky]

Just the hardest rap song of all time, nbd.

[@hunterx1721]

What is the sample?

[@marvingonzalez6891]

Yvonne Fair "let your hair down"

[@alp6181]

Seems like a nice and a down to earth guy

[@CharanKamalGomra]

🔥🔥

[@neverknownsofmetronome9184]

Biz used this first but, AMEN-RA version is COLD!!!!!!!!

[@Chris_Styles]

Dope Let your hair down by: Yvonne Fair

[@diningwithdale]

Still ✅

[@quincyvatikan127]

They don’t make ‘em like this no more

[@Yellow-IV]

Top 5 beat

[@canibusnj]

I know, I'm a huge Hitmen fan!!! I was just talking about this particular track homie.

[@LoneWolfHustle]

Diamond D used this sample on Fat Joe's album before Jay-Z. Still 🔥🔥 though

[@Thedestroyer-wb5xl]

Me coming through slow motion in my drop top. 1998

[@TheTRUNLIVIN]

Why everybody forgot about Bad Bad Man By Fat Joe D that they completely ripped the beat from

[@sittinonthegodamcornerdoindope]

Yo I got a question: why does he play with the velocity of the pads to lower and raise the pitch? it slows the sample down momentarily, is that his whole idea from the get go? could he have also just changed the sample pitch directly?

[@Ginsing88]

That's what gives the beat the quick switch up and and gets rid of too much repetitiveness. Yes he could've also changed the pitch for the original sample and used that but there's no need because 16 levels does the same thing.

[@tochiRTA]

lol at buddymaxwell. If you're gonna comment, do your homework first. and AmenRa, this is honestly one of my favorite beats EVER. Props!

[@oksanagameeva9648]

👍👍

[@nyk3334]

Terrifying beat.

[@vinylsbyqwest]

Education

[@STRENGTHSKATEBOARDS]

#dope

[@touchpotential3762]

But he never stated where the sample from?

[@edub8502]

Math Hoffa D. Dot interview 2023.

[@15997359]

Where else did i hear this beat besides Jay?wasnt nas on this beat ?

[@BlackenedLiam]

Kanye and Nicki Minaj sampled the beat.

[@kalaberfreestyles6742]

D Dot

[@H4VOCss]

Jay Z have a lot of asome beats

[@Carlostheyankeefan]

Hardest Jay Z song

[@peterpimpzzyou]

Replayed the sample exactly like diamond d

[@YellowCab524]

Where the plans was to get funds and skate off the set To achieve this goal quicker, sold all my weight wet🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤

[@Metamophisis]

HipHop history 🎧💉👂🎼🎵🎶💎⛏🔥💣🔥💣🧨🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤👀

[@therealhiphop6170]

Yooo which sampler you using???

[@tenslider6722]

MPC3000 clearly my friend.

[@JEFFMAN90]

He literally says it in the video dumbass lmaoo

[@shahryarization]

the bass isn't really the same tone as the song, but it's cool. 6/5

[@moochiehixx3658]

The original sample

[@orlandeuce6567]

ROLAND JV-2080

[@dogsandyoga1743]

Biz Markie got to the sample first. But I think this one hits a little harder.

[@jasonwalker3778]

There's 2 more samples on there. I know them.

[@joshuadonaldson-nr6co]

Lee Michelle Jackson Jason Clark Sarah

[@williambernardbrown]

I'm from where the hammer's rung, news cameras never come You and your mans hung in every verse in your rhyme

[@eddiemoney6625]

EARLY ! 🦆🦆🦆

[@albionpatterns3986]

81bpm damn, so slow

[@ECollinsMusic]

Biz Markie had the beat first

[@paulkim9828]

worst thumbnail image ever.

[@rodedwards8108]

biz markie used this beat 1st

[@melnkev2010]

On what song???

[@_jimmythesaint]

jay did it better, respectfully. r.i.p to biz tho

[@rodedwards8108]

@@melnkev2010 check it out

[@LostJewelzEnt]

"How to make this beat." Steal it from Fat Joe.

[@soundgods9875]

song was real easy to do because its literally just the sample . he got lucky with this one.. not a hater just being real

[@JEFFMAN90]

The simple beats are the best beats to rap over too. MCs don't want that over complicated shit. As a beatmaker myself I had to learn that.

[@soundgods9875]

@@JEFFMAN90 youre right... definitely a hard beat...

[@soundgods9875]

@@JEFFMAN90 i always use to add too much shit

[@tochiRTA]

@@JEFFMAN90 simple and haunting. Best beats, period. They're actually really hard to make consistently. Takes a special ear.

[@awgatsheni6598]

It's one of the cold meanest beats ever, to give authority to the hip hop game.

[@BruklynGam3r]

Still bump’n this in 2024!!! Klassik!!

[@coreybendolph4103]

Definitely a Classic along with vol 1 being one of if not the most slept on Jay album besides bp 2

[@styleformen7535]

Facts

[@buddymaxwell]

He forgot the part where he gives a shout to Diamond for using the same loop first on Fat Joe's first lp. D.I.T.C., son!!!