Dave East Recorded ‘Fortune Favors The Bold’ Album At Pablo Escobar’s Stash House

Dave East Recorded 'Fortune Favors The Bold' Album At Pablo Escobar's Stash House

According to Dave East, he spent a significant amount of time recording Fortune Favors the Bold at one of Pablo Escobar’s Colombian safe homes.

The Harlem native talked about his Medelln hideaway, where he recorded roughly “12 or 13” songs for his LP, during a Tuesday (July 25) interview with Ebro Darden for Apple Music’s Rap Life.

“I’ve always admired Pablo Escobar, not for the damage or anything like that, but just for his hustler’s mentality. I adore Pablo,” East declared.

“So when I went outside, I thought, ‘Bro, why don’t we just play some music here? Everything about this setting is distinct. It’s just different; it’s not like New York, L.A., or Miami.

We had the studio set up right in the crib, he continued. Actually, we spent the night at one of Pablo’s stash houses. Some flavor, flavor, flavor in the crib’s pool. within Medelln. In that home, right in the cradle, I may have recorded 12, or even 13, songs from the album.

Wake up, Mike [of the production team Mike & Keys] be in there already making beats. They had the chefs in the kitchen preparing breakfast. We would ride the crib to that pool and jump in.

Dave East claimed that while in the villa, he even had the chance to meet Pablo Escobar’s brother, who only has one eye due to an incident that occurred while he was in jail.

The 35-year-old rhymer continued, “I met his brother, his brother got one eye, I guess they sent him some.” “While he was imprisoned, someone gave him some mail or something, and when he opened it, it exploded in his face. But I got to know his brother.

So, considering that I watched all of those films and was tuned in to it, that was just a fantastic experience. And it was cool to go there and be that close to him, meet his family, be in the crib he was in, and all that.

Fortune Favors for Dave East Def Jam released the Bold on July 14. G-Eazy, Tyga, Kid Capri, Ty Dolla $ign, Cordae, Coi Leray, Ghostface Killah, and others contributed to the song’s production.

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