There was once a time where Reebok had a major influence in the Hip Hop culture. Jay Z had a shoe, 50 Cent had a shoe and Jadakiss was apart of some of the best commercials ever with Allen Iverson for The Answer series of shoes. Most of the promo for the shoes were freestyle turned into commercials, most being legendary and Jay Z provided one of those legendary moments for his shoe. DJ Green Lantern has dug into his crates and remastered Hov’s, “The Game Is Mine” promotional track, remastered it and put it out for our personal enjoyment. Lantern produced the beat — which is one of the best beats to freestyle over and brought us this amazing freestyle from Hov back in ’04. Check it out below and enjoy.
Green Lantern also gave the back story on the track via his IG. Check out what he had to say below.
So back in ’04 I got a call from Jay’s manager saying he wants me to do a 60 sec radio commercial for his new S Dot Tennis shoe he was releasing thru Reebok…So I taped a live tennis match, sampled the sounds of the ball, the racquet , sneakers on the court etc and made a beat out of it. Then I found vocal snippets where Jay mentioned sports etc and pieced together a nice little collage (like my tape intros)that made sense for the project..So Jay hears it and comes to Baseline where I was recording it, and says he loves the beat so much can i loop it for 3 mins, can i? lol
It was only released on a mixtape back then (heavy shoutouts, you know the drill)..so I remastered it for #TbtRemastered… CDQ, Free download …
