And Then What Happened…Freddie Foxxx’s Industry Shakedown

Battle MC Freddie Foxxx recalls making Industry Shakedown with Pete Rock and DJ Premier…

I made Industry Shakedown in this house in Queens, it was an old concrete house. I rented the upstairs of the house from this old lady and I built a studio in her house cuz I wanted to have a certain energy and vibe. My brother Taheem got murdered in the middle of the album, so it was hard for me to get through the album, but I pushed it out. Preemo had a studio that I went to but Pete was the only producer that would come to me and work in my studio and I did the whole album on ADATs. It had a nice grit to it, we mixed it in there and everything. If you ever look on the ‘net there’s a picture of me sittin in a real tight studio with a lot of equipment around me and I‘m sittin in a chair with a Krupt Mob t-shirt on with my fists balled up. That was the studio I did Industry Shakedown in. There were a lot of records around, a lot of diggin. This lady had all kinds of crap in the house. She had mice, it was old, but I just wanted to be in a real hard setting when I did it….It took maybe 6 months to a year.

[Watching Premier and Pete Rock] was an education. Those guys really produced me. They sat down and said ‘say this part again, and say it harder.’ They took the position of a pilot. Most guys give me a track and let me do what I want. Pete Rock and I did a lot of records for Industry Shakedown and I only used a couple of them and I still have the others. I wanted to put “Chancellor” and some other ones on Konexion but I figured down the line I’d do a Pete Rock album. He was bringin me so much fire that I still got a catalogue of beats from Pete that I didn’t use. I plan on dropping another Konexion album called Re-Konnected. Those are all the songs that I didn’t use from Konexion and Industry Shakdown with all the Pete Rock stuff on it.