Check out part one of Jay-Z’s interview with Zane Lowe in which he talks about the making of Magna Carta Holy Grail. He even talks about Kanye trying to convince him to put some of the tracks on their Watch The Throne collaboration. From the interview:
“We had this whole plan when me and Kanye did [the] Watch the Throne album that we would go right into our solos after that. Soon as I thought we had wrapped up Watch the Throne, I made two records — I had ‘Holy Grail’ and ‘Oceans.’ So we spent four days arguing about those records, and I was explaining to him why it wasn’t right for [that] project. Well, there was some pushing at one point, but not between us. Just everyone else got a little excited,”
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