The hottest album in hip-hop at the moment, My Name IS My Name by Pusha T, is opened by the song that's fueling the hottest rumors in hip-hop: Who provided the beat for "King Push"?!?
The original statement was that the beat had been provided by someone generally outside of the music business: actor Joaquin Phoenix. Phoenix famously was "working" on a hip-hop album a few years back, which turned out to be a publicity stunt. Did the "King Push" beat prove the actor actually had an ear for hip-hop production? No, said the actor.
"While it was widely reported that Pusha T used my beat and that I produced his song, I can't take any credit," he said. " A friend's son played me his music, and all I did was make an introduction to Kanye's camp."
A friend's son? Which friend? The newly discovered source had a bit more of a foothold in the music industry: the son of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich. Pusha clarified that he was under the impression that Phoenix had produced it because it was the actor who had turned it in.
"I believe it is the son of Lars Ulrich from Metallica," he says. "I hope I'm not wrong this time."
He was wrong that time.
No one's 100 percent sure how the Ulrich rumor got started, but the "friend's son" being referenced was up-and-coming producer Sebastian Sartor. Sartor's mother had a role in Gladiator with Phoenix, and the two had stayed in touch.
Sartor told XXL that he wasn't aware that his beat had gotten that far until he watched a stream of the rapper's release party and heard it.
"The first time I heard the full thing was the music video, and I think I listened to it like 100 times on repeat," he said. "It was so dope, I couldn't even...I think I was just joyous. It was even better than getting the e-mail."
So that now puts Sartor in the same boat as Kanye West, Pharrell Williams, and Swiss Beatz. Until a new rumor on the beat's source comes out tomorrow.
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