FiendishThingie
Jul 03, 2002, 12:26 AM
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1455891/20020702/knoc-turnal.jhtml
HOLLYWOOD — Knoc-Turn'Al can boast something not many, if any, rappers can. He sampled a Beatle.
And yes, he is boasting.
"Paul told us, 'The only reason why I cleared it was because I liked it. Had I not liked it, I wouldn't have cleared it,' " Knoc said proudly at last week's BET Awards. "So thank you, Paul. Big shout out to Paul McCartney for doing that."
As if borrowing the music from "Old Siam, Sir," which McCartney's Wings released on 1979's Back to the Egg, wasn't enough, Knoc is hoping to get even a little more help from his new friend.
"Come get in the video, too," Knoc said, staring into the camera as if McCartney was watching. "That's gonna be dope. We can go to Paris, man — that's where they want to shoot it at. This song is gonna be a good song."
Regardless of whether the recently married McCartney appears in the clip for "Muzik," it will have what Knoc-Turn'Al called a "rockish" theme.
"We gonna have a scene where I'm walking down a long hall and we have different dressing rooms," he explained. "I'm trying to get the guitar player from Metallica to come through, and some other people. And it's like I'm going through dressing rooms and by the time I get to the third verse, I'm gonna walk out onstage and hopefully Paul will be there. And we'll get on a platform, and a guitar player will be there, and we'll just start crowd-surfing, have the crowd passing us around, and we'll just do it like that."
The song, which was produced by Kayne West (Cam'ron, Beanie Sigel), is about a musician's dedication to his or her craft.
"You really give up your all to be an entertainer, and that's something that the fans and the public need to know," Knoc said. "So I just explain that to them in that song. I think [McCartney] appreciated that, because he understands that he probably sacrificed a lot being that he's been here for 35 years, almost 40 years. He's probably sacrificed a lot in almost four decades."
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"I would say that it doesn't matter whether you're the king of a country
or you're the sultan of Brunei or you're a fabulous Beatle;
it's what's inside that counts." George Harrison
HOLLYWOOD — Knoc-Turn'Al can boast something not many, if any, rappers can. He sampled a Beatle.
And yes, he is boasting.
"Paul told us, 'The only reason why I cleared it was because I liked it. Had I not liked it, I wouldn't have cleared it,' " Knoc said proudly at last week's BET Awards. "So thank you, Paul. Big shout out to Paul McCartney for doing that."
As if borrowing the music from "Old Siam, Sir," which McCartney's Wings released on 1979's Back to the Egg, wasn't enough, Knoc is hoping to get even a little more help from his new friend.
"Come get in the video, too," Knoc said, staring into the camera as if McCartney was watching. "That's gonna be dope. We can go to Paris, man — that's where they want to shoot it at. This song is gonna be a good song."
Regardless of whether the recently married McCartney appears in the clip for "Muzik," it will have what Knoc-Turn'Al called a "rockish" theme.
"We gonna have a scene where I'm walking down a long hall and we have different dressing rooms," he explained. "I'm trying to get the guitar player from Metallica to come through, and some other people. And it's like I'm going through dressing rooms and by the time I get to the third verse, I'm gonna walk out onstage and hopefully Paul will be there. And we'll get on a platform, and a guitar player will be there, and we'll just start crowd-surfing, have the crowd passing us around, and we'll just do it like that."
The song, which was produced by Kayne West (Cam'ron, Beanie Sigel), is about a musician's dedication to his or her craft.
"You really give up your all to be an entertainer, and that's something that the fans and the public need to know," Knoc said. "So I just explain that to them in that song. I think [McCartney] appreciated that, because he understands that he probably sacrificed a lot being that he's been here for 35 years, almost 40 years. He's probably sacrificed a lot in almost four decades."
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"I would say that it doesn't matter whether you're the king of a country
or you're the sultan of Brunei or you're a fabulous Beatle;
it's what's inside that counts." George Harrison