(AllHipHop News) The sound for Jay Z’s 2001 album The Blueprint was mostly crafted by three producers – Bink, Kanye West, and Just Blaze. ThisIs50 caught up with Just, and the Roc-A-Fella Records affiliate discussed working with Ye on the classic Hov LP.

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Blaze stated:

I remember the day [Kanye] came to the studio with “Takeover” and everybody went crazy. Myself included. I was working on ‘U Don’t Know’ in the other room. He comes in, and he’s like, “How did you get your horns to do this? And how do the drums…” He was asking me questions about how I constructed that. The same way I would have questions for him about how he might have chopped up certain things.