What Do Jay-Z, Santogold, and Biggie Smalls All Have in Common?
2008-12-02 17:15:57 by Ehren Gresehover in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...Jay-Z deploys a phony Jamaican patois; riffs on a local hero (I Brooklyn Dodger them / I jack, I rob, I sin, amen / I'm Jackie Robinson / except when I run base, I dodge the pen); and borrows the boroughs own Santogold for a sample (off Shove It) and a guest verse. This all presumably owes to the song being destined for the soundtrack to...
