Speaking of dream situations, working with Common Sense is just, you know, in 96, 97, when we first recorded this song, years before the Underground tapes, we released it on my EP called the Brickhouse EP.
And I don't know, it just worked. It was it was it was really cool. It was self-affirming more than cool because there were there were a few versions.
The first version was produced by No I.D. The next two were remixes produced by myself.
The second one ended up on the same Brickhouse EP.
And the third one eventually.
Became the version we used on the Underground tapes.
And once they had sent me the beats and I picked the beat and I'm like, this is the one and me and Common got on the phone.
Of course, he was Common Sense then, you know, but me and Common got on the phone and.
The first thing he said was he just got back from Paris and Father Time was knocking and it just blew my mind.
Because I hadn't been to Europe yet.
I didn't know how far this music was reaching or the influence of it.
And it was just great to hear from somebody that you had looked up to, you know, for the couple of years he had been out and basically made me his peer.
Everybody I've worked with has made me their peer, which is it's a huge respect thing.
It keeps you going, keeps you motivated.
And this was a motivational moment for me.
And we get to 306 Studio 306 and we Gadget again.
And a funny story about it is I call Cardinal in to come and hang and and help us with the chorus because he is a hook man, you know, at the time and still is.
By the time four or five o'clock in the morning came around when, you know, we had almost finished recording, you know, Cardi was the songwriter.
He was asleep on the couch and he when he woke up, he came back, I woke him up to say, come and listen to this.
And and he's like, this this is what you guys came up with, you know, something so simple.
And the room was just rocking to it.
You know, we all had we all had a great time.
And it was it was cool to have Common come to Toronto and feel that, I guess what you call the northern hospitality.
And he was like, I don't know.