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According to the Who Gon Stop Me Songfacts, the origins of the song lay in a call from Bu Thiam, Def Jam's VP of A&R to R&B artist and producer Verse Simmonds, to submit tracks for Watch The Throne. Simmonds told MTV News he and his production partner immediately went to work. "What we did is, we locked in a week, we just went crazy on everything Jay and Kanye," he said. "I remember telling Sham, I was like, 'Yo, I think this dubstep stuff is going to be the next new flavor that everybody gotta be on. It gotta have a hip-hop feel to it still.'" Read more on Last.fm.
There are more than one act called The Throne.
1) Watch the Throne is a collaborative studio album by American rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West aka The Throne, released on August 8, 2011, by Roc-A-Fella Records, Roc Nation, and Def Jam Recordings.
2) Polish sludge metal band, formed in 2010. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.