Big Syke said that a interview that the one on better dayz was 100% the og beat and all he said the concept was not to have a hook
Bad Azz speaks on "Ghetto Star"
Posted by Christopher Wanzelius on Friday, June 13 2003
DubCNN.com recently interviewed Bad Azz. He spoke on the song "Ghetto Star," which appeared on both Bad Azz's debut album, Word On Tha Streets, and Tupac's double LP, Better Dayz. Below is an excerpt from the interview:
DubCNN.com: There has been some controversy about your track with Tupac called "Ghetto Star." Who recorded the original version with Tupac, you or Nutt-So?
Bad Azz: Nutt-So had the song. Priority had got the song for me. I didn't know Nutt-So did the song, so that's why I did it. I would have never done it. Like, Priority brought it to me, Marvin had got the verses. He gave it to me, the two Tupac verses with a new beat that they had said that they got these two verses, so they kinda lied to me. And I rapped on it, Nutt-So ended up getting played. I never put it out because of that reason. Priority white labeled it and it blew up.
So you didn't record it with Pac in the studio?
No, no, I didn't do that. I've got that verse, Pac was dead when I first heard that. They had got it and like I said, they confronted me like, "Yo, we've got this Pac verse." And I never heard it so I thought they were telling the truth. I was like, "No one ever put this out? This was just a verse Pac had laying around?" And they were like, "Yeah, he did this song with Ant Banks. No one else was on it, but they lied. They took Nutt-So off, thinking that Nutt-So would never surface. They thought Nutt-So is some nobody ass rapper, but at the same time he was like a small time rapper, but that's Pac's homie! Pac did that some with him.