{"id":419812,"date":"2022-03-22T13:50:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T10:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/jay-z-clarifies-u-dont-know-lyric-via-just-blaze-following-pusha-t-reference\/"},"modified":"2022-03-22T13:50:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T10:50:41","slug":"jay-z-clarifies-u-dont-know-lyric-via-just-blaze-following-pusha-t-reference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jay-z-clarifies-u-dont-know-lyric-via-just-blaze-following-pusha-t-reference\/","title":{"rendered":"#JAY-Z Clarifies \u2018U Don\u2019t Know\u2019 Lyric Via Just Blaze Following Pusha T Reference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a36ec8a7044b\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a36ec8a7044b\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jay-z-clarifies-u-dont-know-lyric-via-just-blaze-following-pusha-t-reference\/#%E2%80%9CJAY-Z_Clarifies_%E2%80%98U_Dont_Know_Lyric_Via_Just_Blaze_Following_Pusha_T_Reference%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;JAY-Z Clarifies \u2018U Don\u2019t Know\u2019 Lyric Via Just Blaze Following Pusha T Reference&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CJAY-Z_Clarifies_%E2%80%98U_Dont_Know_Lyric_Via_Just_Blaze_Following_Pusha_T_Reference%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;JAY-Z Clarifies \u2018U Don\u2019t Know\u2019 Lyric Via Just Blaze Following Pusha T Reference&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"image large\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hiphopdx.com\/2022\/03\/jay-z-clarifies-u-dont-know-lyric-just-blaze-pusha-t-reference-1200x675.png\" alt=\"JAY-Z Clarifies \u2018U Don\u2019t Know\u2019 Lyric Via Just Blaze Following Pusha T Reference\" class=\"large\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"news-caption\">\n<span>John Phillips\/Getty Images for BFI, Johnny Nunez\/WireImage<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"body-copy  js-entry-text\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\nPusha T teamed up with Arby\u2019s on Monday (March 21) for a diss track aimed at McDonald\u2019s. On the song, the G.O.O.D. Music president raps about \u201cselling water to a whale\u201d in reference to JAY-Z\u2019s line on 2001\u2019s \u201cU Don\u2019t Know.\u201d This prompted journalist Sowmya Krishnamurthy to wonder whether Hov said \u201cwhale\u201d or \u201cwell\u201d in his lyric from over two decades ago, so she reached out to Just Blaze to get to the bottom of it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile outerAdHatch\">\n<div class=\"ad-border\">\n<div class=\"innerAdHatch\" inserted=\"shortcode\">\n<div id=\"contentUnit\u201c200\u201d\" class=\"adUnits\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n                        if(isMobile){\n                            window.catalyst.cmd.push(\"loadAds\", [[\"incontent\", \"contentUnit\u201c200\u201d\", \"section_post_inarticle\"]]);\n                        }\n                    <\/script><br \/>\n\u201cSo @Pusha_T new Arby\u2019s track seems to have a JAY-Z reference,\u201d she wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m bugging. Did I have \u2018U Don\u2019t Know\u2019 wrong for 21 years?! So I had to ask JAY-Z.. Was his line: A: \u2018I\u2019ll sell water to a WHALE.\u2019 B: \u2018I\u2019ll sell water to a WELL.\u2019 C: Both. Here\u2019s his response! Haaa!! @sc x @JustBlaze.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Krishnamurthy then shared a screenshot of her iMessage conversation with Just Blaze, which came with a message directly from JAY-Z.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Hov,\u201d the message read. \u201cHaaaa!!!! Well\/whale. It\u2019s never a coincidence when these things h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en. I try to make things work on multiple levels every time I sit down to create. It keeps me engaged.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PUSHA_T?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Pusha_T<\/a> new Arby&#8217;s track seems to have a Jay-Z reference. I&#8217;m bugging. Did I have &#8220;U Don&#8217;t Know&#8221; wrong for 21 years?!<\/p>\n<p>So I had to ask Jay-Z.. Was his line:<br \/>A: \u201cI\u2019ll sell water to a WHALE\u201d <br \/>B: \u201cI\u2019ll sell water to a WELL\u201d<br \/>C: Both<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s his response! Haaa!! <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sc<\/a> x <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustBlaze?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JustBlaze<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kvwhAJHnnx\">pic.twitter.com\/kvwhAJHnnx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sowmya Krishnamurthy (@SowmyaK) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SowmyaK\/status\/1506011769638391811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The double entendre appears in the fourth verse of JAY-Z\u2019s song from <em>The Blueprint,<\/em> with production from Just Blaze.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile outerAdHatch\">\n<div class=\"ad-border\">\n<div class=\"innerAdHatch\" inserted=\"shortcode\">\n<div id=\"contentUnit\u201c300\u201d\" class=\"adUnits\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n                        if(isMobile){\n                            window.catalyst.cmd.push(\"loadAds\", [[\"incontent\", \"contentUnit\u201c300\u201d\", \"section_post_inarticle\"]]);\n                        }\n                    <\/script><br \/>\n\u201cI sell ice in the winter, I sell fire in Hell,\u201d he raps. \u201cI am a hustler, baby, I\u2019ll sell water to a whale\/I was born to get cake, move on and switch states\/Cop the coupe with the roof gone and switch plates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jay-Z - U Don&#039;t Know\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9FnEyTb5dcQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>During a 2009 interview with <em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/feature-time-to-build\/\">XXL,<\/a><\/em> JAY-Z and Just Blaze talked about the making of \u201cU Don\u2019t Know\u201d and how it played a vital part in building their relationship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring that time, I had two rooms in Baseline,\u201d Hov explained. \u201cIt was a big room that I was in, that I\u2019d record in. Then it was a small room that Just would be in doing beats. What happened was, Just would peep his head in and hear what me and Kanye was doing and would just go back mad. Like, go back and just go [pounds fist on table], and just come in and be like, \u2018Yo.\u2019 And it was like this every day. It was like a heavyweight slugfest. For three days they was just knocking each other out. And I remember him playing that joint, and I was like, \u2018Oh my God.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just Blaze added, \u2018I might\u2019ve attacked that [beat] two or three times before I felt that I really nailed it. I was gonna flip that sample for Busta [Rhymes], then I ended up not doing it\u2026 That\u2019s actually the record that got me comfortable in my relationship with Jay. 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