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The pressure was on Kanye to deliver after the rapper announced in an interview with Angie Martinez on August 11 that a remix of "Power" featuring Jay-Z would be delivered by that Friday, August 13.
"He definitely, definitely was focused," Swizz said. " 'Cause when he made that announcement, we didn't have what we had. But you know when something feels right and it's time to let something to go.
" 'Ye was trying to put it out the best way possible, to give it to the people," Swizz explained of the delay that followed; the remix arrived a bit later than what Yeezy promised. "And then the day before, the last day, before the remix dropped, it just felt like the song needed to change up. I heard it changing up on something different, something that was already on the beat. And I was trying to explain it, but I didn't want to go in too much because [Kanye] was writing his verse. But it sparked an idea."
Once work on the track was complete, though, there was little if any lag time from the studio to the airwaves. Swizz said that after they finished the three-part remix — one part Jay and 'Ye; one part a solo 'Ye over slower music; and the third, Swizz's contribution featuring Snap's "I've Got The Power" — Funkmaster Flex had premiered the track on NY radio station Hot 97, before Swizz had even made it home from the studio.
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