Jay-Z Snags 'Real As it Gets' Track From Young Jeezy

The music game is treacherous. No matter how successful an artist gets, there's always a bigger fish, and there's no such thing as a "sure thing." Take for instance, platinum-selling rapper Young Jeezy, who recently recorded a song over a beat by up-and-coming production team The Inkredibles. The song was planned to be his first single, until it was snatched up by an even greater platinum-selling, larger artist, Jay-Z, for his album 'The Blueprint 3.'
The Inkredibles' manager, DJ Nasty, who co-owns We the Best Management with DJ Khaled, explained the situation in a recent interview, saying "I'm a keep it real, it was a record that we did for Jeezy. Khaled sent him the record and when Jeezy heard it, he was blown away. He did the record, he recorded it, he said 'Yo, this is going to be my first single, so I'm a try to get Jay on it'...Jay heard the beat and was like 'Yo, wassup Jeezy I need this.' Who's gonna tell Jay-Z 'No, no you can't have this.' So Jeezy said 'Let it ride, let's go,' and it's the movie it is now."

Jeezy's single became Jay-Z's 'Real As it Gets' featuring Young Jeezy, in the same way that so many hot new singles get scooped up by established artists in search of a single (Ron Browz's 'Arab Money' comes to mind). Not that Jeezy and The Inkredibles are complaining; Jeezy gets an appearance on 'BP3,' and likely a Jay-Z feature for himself, and The Inkredibles get a production credit on the highest profile album of the year, alongside legendary producers Timbaland, Kanye West and No I.D.

The Virginia Duo have been doing big things ever since they joined forces in 2007, and have since worked with T-Pain, Mary J. Blige, Nas, Jeezy, Rick Ross, Akon and many more.

"It was a good move, either way but you know the record was big," concluded their manager. "It was going to be a single on Jeezy's album, but it ended up being even another bigger movie on Jay's album."

Comment by merlinamb on September 13, 2009 at 11:24pm: it's still jeezy's song, he kills it

Comment by carlton jones on September 14, 2009 at 12:57am: jay's star has fallen he should have let jeezy bang it out since he grabbed it first. bottom line is jeezy still ripped it harder that jay

Comment by Darnell on September 14, 2009 at 1:00am: Dam thats deep.swag cheack .or swagger up or down

Comment by Aaron on September 14, 2009 at 1:37am: that is called collaborative work niggaz know jay put them on and aint charged a motherfuker for a verse think about that GO CRAZY, PUT ON REMIX, HUSTLIN REMIX, PRESIDENT IS BLACK REMIX.

Comment by KINGBLAC on September 14, 2009 at 9:41am: That nigga JaY broke bread with Jeezy, that nigga jeezy good....

Comment by CWE on September 14, 2009 at 11:52am: I GUESS THAT SHIT GON WORK ITSELF OUT LONG AS NIGGAS BREAKIN BREAD 2GETHER YALL SEE HOW JEEZY PUT IT DOWN SO DONT TRIP JUS MAKIN JEEZY EVEN BIGGER KEEP KILLIN THA GAME

Comment by clarence ross on September 14, 2009 at 2:59pm: shit go hard

Comment by Truizzle on September 14, 2009 at 5:21pm: Young Jeezy all day er'day!! track is crazy!!

Comment by BIG TAZ on September 14, 2009 at 7:35pm: And now Jeezy can get that money too.

I would have done the exact same thing and been like CUT THE CHECK

Thank you

Comment by fredderf on September 15, 2009 at 1:48am: jeezy help jay wit dat track cuz other wise 2 me i dont care 4 bp3 but dat song is big a good look 4 jeezy he out shined jay u could tell it was his song