DJ Khaled Explains How He Got Kanye West, Eminem, and Dr. Dre to ‘Use This Gospel’ on ‘God Did’.
DJ Khaled Explains How He Got Kanye West, Eminem, and Dr. Dre to ‘Use This Gospel’ on ‘God Did’.
DJ Khaled’s new album God Did is out today everywhere, and everyone is talking about two notable songs on it: the title track, which features Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, Rick Ross, John Legend, and Fridayy, and the ‘Use This Gospel’ remix, which features Eminem and Kanye West.
Fans were startled to see the song on the tracklist when it was unveiled earlier this week, and many pondered how Khaled managed to score it for his album. It’s safe to infer that the song, which is a remix of the original from Jesus is King, was originally intended for Kanye’s Dr. Dre-produced Jesus is King 2 album. Ye revealed the song on Twitter in September 2020, calling it his daughter North’s favorite song.
Khaled spoke on Zane Lowe’s Apple Music broadcast to celebrate the album’s debut and detailed the process. “I recall working on a few records with Kanye and not finishing them; they’re fantastic, we just didn’t finish them.” Kanye has a lot going on and is doing a lot, so I’m like, “Yo,” When I phoned Kanye one day and said, “I have an idea,” Khaled began to break it down.
“Came by my house about a year and a half ago, I never told this story, you know that, Zane, I haven’t told this story yet. He came by my house like a year and a half ago, I played him music, first he came to my house to get some eggs, 8:00 in the morning and he just showed up to my house. I never knew he was coming, tells the chef, “Give me some eggs with ketchup,” and he had a drink. We go to my studio, I play him music, he plays me music, we both inspiring each other. He plays me an incredible album that he did with one of my idols, Dr. Dre, he played it from top to bottom for me. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. We had a great get-together at the crib, he leaves, that’s a year and a half ago. I told you he was making records for this album, me and Ye, he couldn’t finish them because he was so busy, so I said, “I got an idea. I remember you playing me this Dr. Dre, Eminem, Kanye record and y’all was talking about God, y’all was speaking that gospel.” I said, “Man, that would be beautiful if we could put that on God Did,” and Ye hits back and says, “I love the idea.” You know Ye don’t love no idea, he said he loves the idea. I talked to Ye, he said, “I’m down,” but obviously I said, “I got to call Dre to get his blessings, and of course, Em’s blessings.” After I hung out with Ye, I called Dr. Dre and I said, “Dre, bless up, brother, yo, boom boom.” I was like, “Yo, I would love to put your song on my album that you produced with Em and Ye.” Make a long story short, he was like, “Yo, I’m down, we just got to make sure we get Em’s blessings,” and I’m like, “Of course, everybody got to bless this.” He hits me back, and Dre said, “We got you, and we love you.” Zane, this is my idol, Zane, Dr. Dre produced on my album, produced by Dr. Dre, Kanye West and Eminem. We get the blessings, before I came up with calling Ye about this, a few months ago, I texted Dre to see if this was still his number because I ain’t talked to him in a while.I said, “Bless up, brother, is this still your number?” I think he hits me back like a week or two weeks later. I ended up catching the COVID, so I look at my phone, I’m like, ” he hit me back,” but I was sick with the COVID, God bless, God is great, so I didn’t want to hit him back right away because I didn’t have my energy, my spirit wasn’t . If I’m going to talk to Dre, my idol, I got tofeel DJ Khaled, he got to hear DJ Khaled. I was working on another record that I wanted to present to him that I produced, that I wanted to present to him to get on, and I never played it for him. That’s what I’m saying, this is God Did, instead I was blessed to get a gift from Dr. Dre, Kanye West, and Eminem, produced by Dr. Dre, man.”
SZA, Future, Lil Baby, Roddy Ricch, Quavo, Travis Scott, and others also appear on “God Did”.
