Young Guru on How Jay-Z's “Talk Up” Verse for Drake Came to Be: 'Wrote It After Doing a Full Two Hour Show'

Young Guru has pulled back the curtains on the "crazy" story behind Jay-Z's feature on Drake's "Talk Up."

In the mix of Drizzy's 100-gigabyte content drop was a video of him and longtime producer Noah "40" Shebib talking about the Brooklyn rap legend getting his verse done for the song. Everyone was moving on a tight schedule as the 6 God was finishing up his Scorpion album, and Hov was in the middle of the On The Run II Tour with his wife, Beyoncé.

In the clip, Drake plans to be prepared for Jay to contact him and ask his opinion on the verse once he sends it in. According to Drake, he'll be lying down; that way, he'll be around once the verse is submitted.

"I'm only laying down for like two hours while Hov's doing his show 'cause I don't want him to hit me and be like, 'Hey, what do you think of this?' and I'm not there to respond," Drake said in the video. "He's on stage now. Two hours from now, it's four o'clock. He's gonna get off stage, shower, probably have a drink and then set back up with Guru to write and [record]. So that process is gonna be two hours."

Young Guru chimed in the comment section of veteran rap journalist Elliott Wilson's repost of the video and gave some more insight about that hectic time and how he and Hov managed to get the verse done in time. According to Guru, Jay told him to set up a studio in the venue where On The Run II was taking place and the engineer had no choice but to get to work.

"We go out and do a two hour show," Guru wrote. "Mind you he has to remember every verse from every album. No backing tracks. I'm DJing I can't miss a cue or [musical director Omar Edwards] would kill me. We finish the show. We go back in the room to finish the verse but the problem is I have an afterparty."

Guru continued, "I can't [remember] what city or country in Europe but understand, my parties have been set up months before the tour. The Promotor [sic] waited in parking lot for two hours and I can't tell him why I'm late."

Things get even more chaotic when Guru claimed the internet setup by LiveNation had gone down, and he had to think quickly to finish the verse.

"By the time HOV finished the internet that we set up from Livenation is gone. Everyone is gone," said Guru. "I had to tether my phone to my computer to send the session to @ovo40 I made it too the club just in time for my set."

Guru finally ended his story by wondering if people understood what goes on behind the scenes when making a record and claiming he "killed" his DJ set that night.