Jake One: From Beat Digging to All-Time Classics

Jake One joins Gems with Shom for a deep conversation about beat digging, record collecting, sampling, and a legendary career producing for some of the biggest names in music.From digging through dollar bins in Seattle to producing records for Jay-Z, Drake, J. Cole, Rick Ross, Dr. Dre, The Weeknd, De La Soul, MF DOOM, 50 Cent, Freeway and many more, Jake One has built an extraordinary career around records, samples, and an incredible ear.Jake and Shom get into discovering samples in his parents’ record collection, learning the art of digging alongside Seattle legend Supreme La Rock, making the influential Conmen mixtapes, and traveling across North America hunting for records before becoming one of hip-hop’s most respected producers.They also get into working with Dr. Dre, the story behind Rick Ross and Jay-Z’s “3 Kings,” making “Rock Co.Kane Flow” with De La Soul and MF DOOM, producing for Drake and J. Cole, and Jake’s evolution beyond hip-hop through Tuxedo.Jake shares stories from a lifetime of digging and making beats — from traveling with almost no money in search of records to hearing Funkmaster Flex drop bombs on “3 Kings” in New York and realizing his career had reached another level.The conversation goes deep into how digging develops your ear, what separates a great beat from a great record, the producers who influenced Jake, and why collecting records remains an essential part of his creative process decades into his career.From Seattle record stores and underground mixtapes to some of the biggest records in hip-hop, this is the story of what can happen when an obsession with records becomes a lifetime of making them.Follow Gems with Shom for weekly conversations with the DJs, producers, collectors, artists, and cultural figures behind the records.#JakeOne #GemsWithShom #BeatDigging #HipHopProduction #RecordCollecting