INTERVIEW: Zaytoven Reveals Jay Z’s Reactions When He Played Him Beats
Originally posted on HipHopDX 2/16/2017
What are the odds that Zaytoven appears on Jay Z’s next album? According to Zay, they’re pretty favorable. One of the South’s most prolific producers (Gucci Mane, Migos, Soulja Boy, you name it) to ever grace the studio recently checked in on #DXLive to give the scoop. “I met him once,” Zaytoven says. “We were talking about regular life stuff most of the time. We were talking about his daughter [and] we were talking about the election, things like that.”
It wouldn’t take long for the conversation to turn to music. “Then we start talking about music. He was letting me know what artists he likes. I was asking him who [is] he feeling in the game,” Zaytoven recalls. “Then it got down to ‘I got these beats I need to give you.’”
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INTERVIEW: Tink Says Only Thing Holding Up Debut Album “Think Tink” Is Timbaland
Originally posted on HipHopDX 2/7/2017
For the Chicago-based Hip Hop/R&B multi-talented Tink, she follows in the footsteps of a long lineage of R&B power hitters in the house that Timbaland built. That’s the kind of pressure that bursts pipes and could crumble any veteran but the multitalented Chicago native has the poise of someone who has been here before. At just 21-years-old, Tink has successfully built a name and career for herself despite not having a proper debut album throughout her nearly five-year career.
Tink stopped by the DXHQ this past Thursday to discuss her latest mixtape Winter’s Diary 4 as well as the hold up with her debut album Think Tink.
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