KRAZY

Young Noble: We was supposed to be on that song, but we took too long with our verse. Bad Azz was up in there chilling with us. 'Pac used to like Bad Azz; he had a nice flow. And 'Pac threw Bad Azz up on there and I'm glad he did, 'cause Bad Azz did his thing on that muthafucka. That's one of those classic 'Pac songs, too. "Time goes by puffing on la got a ***** going crazy..." We had started writing the shit and we was taking long. 'Pac was like, "Who got something? Bad Azz you got something?" and it fit perfect, so it was ment for Bad Azz to be on that song. We had already been on a million 'Pac songs. That was his way of motivating us like, "If y'all ain't ready, then you don't make the song." That's why some songs you might hear one on there or you might hear two or you might hear three. 'Cause when the song got just about done, if niggas ain't have no verse, we were scratchin that and going to the next song. 'Pac was surrounded by a lot of controvers, and a lot of people be thinking he that way. But that dude was really all about love, yo. He loved his family, he loved the kids and he loved black people to death. That dude was really all about love. That's why the streets love him. Through all that shit, through all the beefing... When I think about 'Pac I don't Think About none of that shit, I think about love. This ***** had so much love in his heart it was ridiculous. and you hear that shit in his muisc.

E.D.I.: Bad Azz is another cat who was around a lot. He loved our music so he always came through. 'Pac was a fan of BA. 'Pac wanted us on that song, but the beat was so slow. We was used to rapping on the up-tempo shit. We wasn't really vibing to it. Here comes BA, the hands of fate just swung that *****'s way. 'Pac was like, "You got a verse write a verse to that." Bad Azz was like 'I already got a verse." 'Pac was like, Get in there and kick that shit."

Darryl Harper: E.D.I. was interested in the beat from 'Krazy," because during that year there were a lot of planes crashing and churches burning. He wanted to speak to that situation. E.D.I. thought that the beat that I had would fit that. So I brought 'Pac in to hear it. 'Pac loved the beat, but he didn't hear it for that. He put another hook on it. Bad Azz just happend to be coming by the studio when we were doing it. 'Pac looked at him ad said "You got 16?" He said, "I have 16." He got busy.

Lance Pierre: That song wasn't really put together, it was just a beat. Kevin Lewis, who was actrully the project coordinator, he's related to [Jazz pianist] Ramsey Lewis. He was there and we kept saying, "Man, this is not a song." He said, "But Tupac wants that song on the record." I said, "Man, I got it mixed, but it's still not sounding right." He said, "It's just needs some piano." So he just went in there and he just played according to the vocals. The Song turned out a lot better then it originally was.

BOMB FIRST ( MY SECOND REPLY )

Young Noble: They had a little production room up there, and I was up there writing I had rapped last. I had kicked a verse for 'Pac. We was up in there freestyling a little bit. we just went in there and laid the song. He came up with the first verse. E.D.I. wrote his verse and it came out pretty tight. I think "Bomb First" was one of those classic ones.' Pac let loose.[When I said "King of New York"] I was talking to Biggie. you know the whole situation that was going on. 'Cause Biggie really was the king of New York at the time.

E.D.I.: Makaveli is an album that 'Pac basically Did on his own. I mean production, Lyrics...A lot of people don't know that 'Pac was a producer "Bomb First" was actrully a beat he started on. Other people got credit for it, but 'Pac started that beat. The bass line was from Naughty By Nature's "Uptown Anthem." That we always loved. 'Pac was working on the Drums and shit, Then a Couple of other sessions players came in and we just put it down and it was like the reply to "Hit'Em Up" it was after "Hit 'Em Up" came out and everybody had their little comments on the song and how they felt about it. 'Pac was like, "All Right, I got something else to say and this one is going to start Makaveli Off. It's a Just a ride track. It's just niggas riding. Also it introduced Noble. He was the last official Outlaw. We was all learning that shit at the same time. So what 'Pac would do, is he would have it i n his head and just tell people to do it, like "I want the drums to go like this, I want the bass line to go like that." But also what's crazy is, he had just bought a new house and he had a grand piano up in there and a ***** used to just f##k with Melodies on the Piano all the time. One of those melodies is actrully the melody for "Bomb First". He just came up with it himself. He'd Rember the shit and just go to the studio, play that melody and have somebody loop it, and then just tell niggas to add drums here, add bass here, add guitar here, add that there, he ain't really know how to program drums and shit like that, but he know how to program people, Pac was good at that he could get the beat out of people.

Darryl Harper: I presented a beat to 'Pac and he liked it, but he wanted the bass line changed. He wanted the bass line similar to the one someone had did on the Movie Juice[Naughty By Nature's "Uptown Anthem"]. I didn't know what it was like, so I had to get it and find out what it was like. So I changed the bass line and it went like that. Lance Pierre: Tupac actrully did that bass line. He actrully sat up on the Moog and punched out each button on that. but Darryl did the beat. 'Pac did that song; a lot of people don't know that it seemed like 'Pac was getting off into production. That was one of the Songs that Tupac actrully had a lot to do with as far as the production of it.

Later, QD.