JAY-Z Reveals Origin Behind Nickname ‘One-Take HOV’
Additional details are surfacing about the illustrious career of hip-hop and business mogul JAY-Z. In a recent excerpt from his exclusive interview with “CBS Mornings,” Gayle King, the 24-time Grammy Award-winning emcee, shared the story behind one of his notable monikers, “One-Take HOV.”
In the newest clip, the pair walked through the "The Book of HOV" exhibit before stopping a display of JAY’s masters, the rapper telling King, “This was when you were recording to actual tape. So, you can’t mess up ‘cause then you got to go all the way back and cut the tape.” He added, “That’s where the whole ‘One-Take HOV’ came from.”
JAY continued, “Because if you wanted a fly chorus on this thing, you had to go to dinner. It took an engineer hours to cut the tape, [inaudible], fly it over here… So I start learning my lyrics really good so I could do them one time—you understand—straight down, and I didn’t waste time.”
This clip marks the latest sneak peek from the two-part interview with King. Just days ago, the Brooklyn native settled a long-standing social media debate about choosing between $500K and having lunch with him. The businessman's advice to King was clear: “You gotta take the money.” He went on to say, “Take the $500,000. Go buy some albums and listen to the albums. It’s all there.”
The new interview also features an exclusive tour of the "The Book of HOV" exhibit at the Brooklyn Public Library, showcasing over three decades of his work. The exhibit spans from his original master recordings to his entrepreneurial ventures and social justice initiatives. It airs this Thursday and Friday on “CBS Mornings.”
