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DJ Khaled On Jay-Z’s ‘I Got The Keys’ Verse: “It Was Like Listening To ‘Dirt Of Your Shoulder’ For The First Time”

<p>DJ Khaled has been holding the game down with monster anthems like &&num;8220&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m So Hood&&num;8221&semi; and &&num;8220&semi;All I Do Is Win&&num;8221&semi; for over ten years now&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s almost as if all he knows how to do is make hits&excl; His latest&comma; &&num;8220&semi;I Got The Keys&&num;8221&semi;&comma; which features &num;JayZ and &num;Future&comma; has got everyone looking for shade after the Roc Nation CEO had the nerve to spit some straight fire in this mid-summer heat&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you&&num;8217&semi;re wondering just how Khaled got Jigga to hop on the anthem&comma; well&comma; he pretty much acted on faith&period; On the Breakfast Club&comma; Khaled described the day he had met up with Jay at the studio where he played his record for him&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I kinda glanced and looked at him and he was bobbing his head&period; Then&comma; after the hook came off&comma; he was bobbin his head &lpar;repeating&rpar;&comma; &&num;8216&semi;I got the keys&comma; keys&comma; keys&&num;8217&semi;&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Khaled said&period; &&num;8220&semi;When the instrumental came on&comma; I already saw him start rapping in his head&excl; He was like&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Yo&comma; leave this for me&period;'&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The next day&comma; Jay laid down his verses and history was made&excl; Later&comma; they recorded the video and it became a humbling moment for DJ Khaled&period; He said it was &&num;8220&semi;important to the game&&num;8221&semi; that they worked together on that project&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Khaled believes that the only reason why the song was so effective is because everything Jay said was incredibly true&period; Who else can say they&&num;8217&semi;ve lived&comma; acquired and married the things Jay Z has&quest; Nobody&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you&&num;8217&semi;d like to catch his full interview&comma; check it out below&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube data-videoid&equals;"AgZzUjdVios" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"563" dock&equals;"&num;dock-slot"><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>TSR STAFF&colon; 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