- You're collecting Jay-Z verses like Infinity stones, man.
What was your first reaction
when you first heard that verse come through?
- Man.
So, I played him the album,
and when I played him that record,
when the record came off he was already -
He spit, like, four bars out the gate.
And then I played him the album
and he told me, "Khaled, this is your biggest album
"and I'm proud of you."
But not only did he tell me,
I seen a smile in his face.
Like, he was so happy for me,
I swear to God, like, he was so happy for me
and then he did "Hov did,"
- Mhm. Mhm.
- He did "Hov did."
- He did what the God MC does.
- And it shows you how much he loved my album,
how much he loved me.
My album's called 'God Did,'
and the title song is called 'God Did.'
So, you understand what I'm saying?
This is God did, meaning as in, all this is happening,
we have to give all glory to God.
- Amen, amen, amen.
You know, what is it about you
when you are making these relationships?
It might be a divine thing.
It might be God that's doing it,
but what is it about you
that you're able to pull the best from these artists?
Because a lot of people send a lot of people beats.
They don't do what they do on your beats.
What is it about Khaled?
- I mean, you know, first of all, you know,
I'm blessed to collaborate with a lot of great people.
And what it is is I think people respect me
and know that I'm a winner,
but also know I make hits,
and also know that I love music.
It's not about what feature you get,
it's about how you make a great song,
and people know I make great songs.
People know I care and people know I'mma go hard.
This ain't no joke thing.
This is a real life thing.
I love what I do and I show it.
I'm not scared to show it.
I'm not scared to be me, and me is Khaled Khaled,
I'm the father of Asahd and Aalam.
That's who I am.
And in the studio, when I was making 'God Did,'
every artist I sat with in my room,
I was like, "Yo, so this is what we gonna do."
But I had to remind them and say, this God did.
There's only one thing we could do is go God level.
You know what I'm saying?
Then the album was so powerful,
last minute, I even got gifts.
'Cause you said Ye,
and me and Ye was working on two records.
I have 'em right now,
I can let it go, put on somebody's head right now.
- Put 'em hats up, put in the hats up, right now.
- I could do it it right now, but he didn't finish them.
And I was on him to finish them,
and then I came up with a idea, I called Ye,
I was like, "Yo,
"you played me a record a year and a half ago.
"You played me a whole album with Kanye and Dr. Dre."
You know, Dr. Dre's my idol.
He played me a record
with Kanye, Eminem, and Dr. Dre produced.
So I was like, "Yo, my album called 'God Did,'
"y'all talking about God.
"Man, let's not let that record sit in the drive.
"Can I put that on my album?"
Because we didn't get to finish what we was doing,
and he's like - I talked to Justin to give him the message,
and I got on the phone with Ye myself too,
and he's like, "I love that idea."
Ye don't like ideas unless it's his
or coming from a real disruptive -
So he's like, "I love your idea."
So no, no, but listen,
he said, "You have to call Dr. Dre though.
"You have to call him."
So I hung up with Ye, I called Dr. Dre.
Dr. Dre picked up.
No, it's a real story.
I said, "Yo Dre, bless up brother.
"I was talking to Ye,
"I would love to put this on my album,
"my album gotta come out in a few days though."
And he said, "You know what, I love the idea,
"but we gotta get Em[inem]'s blessings."
So, he talked to Em and then Dre texted me
and said, "We love you and we got you."
So I don't know if you know the story,
I've been trying to get and Eminem on my album
from the beginning of my career.
- Yes.
- And then, you know, Dr. Dre's my idol
and Ye's my brother.
- For your idol and your brother to make it happen with Em,
something you've been working on all your career?
- And it was a gift.
You understand what I'm saying?
My album done.
- That's God.
- Wait, before I let you go,
I gotta ask you one more question.
On the Drink Champs interview with N.O.R.E,
you said you sent Hov three or four beats.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Three or four records with vocals.
- Oh, with already vocals laid on them?
'Cause you played the whole album.
- I played him my album
and I knew he was gonna get on 'God Did'
without him telling me.
'Cause I know my brother, he invented that (beep).
But he also picked three other records
and said, "Yo, send me all these."
- So, when you putting that on our hair top,
when is that happening, man?
- I said I sent him, that's all.
Hov did!