Jadakiss has recalled what it was like seeing Jay-Z and the late Notorious B.I.G. record their 1997 collaborative track “I Love the Dough.”
In an episode of the Joe and Jada podcast, Kiss revealed he was in the studio for several legendary hip-hop recordings, one of them being the session for one of Hov and Big’s first collaborations. According to Kiss, the Brooklyn natives were both present in the studio at the time and rapped off the top of the dome, as technology wasn’t as advanced as it is today.
Kiss revealed the vibes in the studio weren’t too competitive as they were trying to make a hit rather than outperform one another. He also claimed that Angela Winbush was in the studio to record the song’s chorus, which was long believed to be a sample of her 1981 record, “I Love You More,” with René.
“We were in the MIDI room, we was the young LOX, and Hov kept coming in our room giving us an update of what’s going on,” said Kiss. “Like ‘Yo, I got to go first, I’m about to go first.’ We was like, nah, go in there and kill that shit up. He would go to the bathroom, then he stopped in the MIDI kicking it with us […] We actually seen Angela Winbush. That’s not a sample. That’s her singing, ‘I love the dough.'”
“I Love the Dough” was produced by Easy Mo Bee and featured on Biggie’s posthumous sophomore album, Life After Death. In the song, Biggie and Jay refute the popular misconception that money can’t buy happiness by rapping about their excessive wealth and the perks that come with it.
Jay-Z would collaborate with his fellow Brooklynite one last time on “Young G’s” off Diddy‘s No Way Out album in 1997, the same year that Biggie was killed in a drive-by shooting.
