Kanye West och Eminem hörs på Dr. Dre-producerad "Jesus Is King"-remix.

Det är varken en överraskning eller ovanlighet att DJ Khaled samlar de allra största namnen när det är dags för albumsläpp. Så även denna gång, då “God Did” släpps denna fredag. På skivan återfinns gäster som Drake, Kanye West, Eminem, JAY-Z, Travis Scott, Future, SZA, Lil Baby, Lil Wayne, 21 Savage, Don Toliver, Juice WRLD, Jadakiss, Latto, City Girls, Kodak Black, Quavo och Rick Ross med flera.

Anmärkningsvärt är att Kanye West och Eminem samarbetar på “Jesus Is King”-spåret “Use This Gospel”, vars originalversion såg Clipse återförenas. Remixen av låten, som alltså återfinns på “God Did”, är producerad av Dr. Dre och The ICU. Inför releasen ringde Khaled in till Zane Lowe på Apple Music Radio och berättade historien bakom att han fick släppa låten med Kanye och Dr. Dre:

“[Kanye] 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.”

Jay-Z är Jay-Z och en vers av honom är förstås också alltid intressant. Khaled och flera andra har upprepade gånger påstått att hans insats på skivan är en av hans bästa någonsin. Vilket såklart återstår att se.

“The rumors are true. A lot of rumors are not true, but these are true. I’m a Jay fan, you’re a Jay fan? So everybody has their favorite verse of Jay. I’ll let y’all decide that. I’m telling you, if there was a greatest hits of JAY-Z verses, it’s on there. That I’ll tell you, for a fact. The rumors are true, that’s for a fact.

“Now, as far as you saying the very best one, I’ve heard people tell me that when they heard it. And these are people that… they know.”