No I.D. sat down with Andrew Barber at Chicago’s Red Bull Music Festival this week, where he revealed that he almost formed a super-producer group. It was going to be called Roc the World, and consist of No I.D., Kanye West, Just Blaze and Bink.
No I.D. started a relationship with Roc-A-Fella around the time of Common’s Resurrection, with a production deal then coming into the equation after working on JAY-Z’s The Blueprint 2. Ultimately, the idea fell through. “I just didn’t like the paperwork,” he said. “I had worked all these years so I wanted my money now. It was me, Bink, Just Blaze and Kanye, And me and Bink were like, we don’t like this business.”
The back of Beanie Sigel’s The Reason album is actually credited to Roc the World. “That was what the team was gonna be,” he continued. “But we all looked at the paperwork and Just Blaze and Ye were like ‘Alright. I don’t care. Whatever. We’re down.’ And me and Bink were like ‘Nah.’ It was funny because there were certain people after that happened that we’re like ‘You blew it. It’s over. you’re a dummy.’ Because Roc-A-Fella explodes. But I had put much blood sweat and tears in before that to just be cool and accepted.”
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