BIG SEAN – Story By Common

Yea, what up! It’s Common right here! Y’all know where I come

from, and uh, shoot I used to come to the D. I used to go to

Detroit, like, every two weeks to record with J Dilla. I be

standing at the Atheneum, and then, you know, he’d come scoop me

up; he had a Range. We’d either eat, we’d eat at a Coney Island,

close to his crib. He stayed ’round McNich’. We’d go down in his

basement and stuff, and Jay Dee would dig through the records

and then he would make a beat. And then once he make a beat, I’d

be like, “Yo that beat cold,” and then I’d just sit there. And

Frank, Frank would be around. And then you know, and we’d just

be kicking it; I’d be getting some Heinekens and stuff, and then

uh, they’d go to Chocolate City, to strip club. And I wasn’t all

into the strip clubs at the time, so I’m like yo, I’d just be

like, I’d sit there and be like, “I’m about to write this rap.”

Then one time I was like, “I’m going to the strip club with

y’all.” I went to the club, and man they had some good chicken

wings, man some good, thick girls, and it was right. Anyway, I

love the D, man; We used to kick it off in the D. That was like

all day. That’s what we do.