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A smooth track from Sean’s 2012 mixtape Detroit, it describes how fame and riches have driven him to success, and how he still dreams of even more.

Production was handled by keY Wane.

The original instrumental was produced by Hit Boy and was eventually sold to Justin Bieber for his collaboration with Drake, “Right Here”

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What did Big Sean say about "24k of Gold"?
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Matter of fact, Hit-Boy made the original version of that beat, but he gave it to Justin Bieber. That’s cool though. That’s a big album placement to me. Sean was like, ‘I really need another beat for this.’ I just re-made a whole nother beat, and it just seemed like a supremely great response on that too. It took me a minute to try and recreate that beat, because I didn’t want to listen to the ‘Right Here’ joint, because I didn’t want that to confuse or distract where I wanted to go with the beat. I just didn’t listen. Every other week I just tried different ideas, and I came across it and added some drums. Then No I.D. gave me some great insight on how to do the drums on it. Everything just came out great. I really enjoyed that process, because I got to hear insight from No I.D. on how to make that song sound good production wise.

I met J. Cole in the studio months earlier. I don’t if that song was recorded at that time—I think it was. But yeah, I met J. Cole several months ago. He’s pretty cool.

via Complex

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September 5, 2012
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