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They were, “They’re alright, they’ve got their little thing going. For anybody from New York to even pay attention to what we were doing down South. When Jay-Z called – “I wanna get on the remix to ‘Ha’” – I knew I’d arrived. Play it again.” And he had this line in the song where he’s, “Jay-Z and Cash Money.” So I was, “I’m gonna sample that and move it to the front.” “Do you think we should call him?” “No! Just take that and move it to the front of the song.” In this excerpt from a lecture at the Red Bull Music Academy in 2011, producer Mannie Fresh describes the recording of Ha, Juvenile’s breakout hit from the 1998. So we get it back and we must have played that song back 15 times. There had been isolated cases, sure, but Juvenile and others signaled the beginning of what would become one of the most popular sounds in late ’90s and early ’00s rap. They should get it two weeks from now in the mail.” At that time there was no emailing anybody. One day Baby called me at home and he was like, “ Jay-Z wants to get on the remix to ‘Ha.’” I was, “Man, stop playing me, you’re lying.” “No, they already sent him the track. I’m like, “If you can rock that crowd, I know the world is gonna accept it.” Let me do what I do.” He was trying these songs out in different spots, the worst-of-the-worst places you could find. I’m gonna change it to something I know will go mainstream. But I said, “Trust me, it’s gonna all work out. I was, “Nah, man, I’m gonna change the drums and put a little music or something behind it.” To them, it was a sad day for Roland 808. When I started putting beats to them, I said, “I’m gonna strip these songs, we’re gonna take the bounce element out of a lot of these songs and make it mainstream in our own New Orleans way.” I remember when we were doing this record Juvenile was like, “You’re gonna leave the beat the way it was, the way I do it.” He wanted a bounce beat behind it. It was already jumping off, it was already hot. When “Ha” came out, everyone was like, “This is so nuts, the way his rhyme schemes are going, everything he’s saying.” Everyone was, “Never heard anybody rap like that.” But it was already a key song in New Orleans. The thing about it was, when we got into the studio, he knew all those songs, so that made it so much better.