In truth, he hadn’t created much music at Cedars. James emerged from the hospital to find that Kanye West had done the majority of the production on Common’s new album, Be, save two tracks that James had recorded before his long stay. But being bedridden for two months did convince him of two things: that he could use his tiny Macintosh laptop to make beats, and that he could and should use every piece of time he had to make them.
