Memphis Bleek on Trying to Get Verse From Jay-Z: ‘I’m On His Neck’

Memphis Bleek has his sights set on a major collaboration.

Jay-Z‘s former understudy has dropped two singles this year — he and Just Blaze linked back up and released “Durag Bleek” last month, and he followed that single up last week with “Bands Up” featuring Kruziano & Dre.

Fans have noticed Bleek getting back in the booth, and now they hope he can talk Jay-Z into giving him a verse. “@memphisbleek might be the one to bring Hov outside for A verse. I know he heard that second half of bands up,” one X user tweeted him.

Bleek then assured the fan that he’s been trying to get Jigga to do the same, replying, “I’m on his neck for one trust me.”

The two rappers haven’t done a song together since Bleek appeared on Jay-Z’s Blueprint 2 back in 2002. During a run-in with TMZ in 2023, he joked about why it’s been so long since they’ve worked together.

“He know I’m nicer than him,” Bleek said. “That’s why. He know I’ll burn him. He don’t want to put me on no record with him when I’m a smoke his boots. He like, ‘Bleek? Nah, put Bleek away. He too nice right now.’ I’m just nicer than him. That’s why he told me sell liquor.”

In a 2017 interview with Vibe, Bleek talked about doing something else other than making music. “I was in [Jay’s] office and I was telling him I want to transition from music,” he said. “I did music my whole life. I wanted to do something else. I’m a guy who never had a job in my life, my only job was rap. Never had a summer youth [job] — never worked no job, ever. [Not] saying that’s a good thing, so I wanted to try my hand at working. I’m a part of everything [at D’ussé]. I started this thing, when the first hashtag went out it was on my page.”

Jay’s last feature happened earlier this year where he did a spoken word performance on Jeymes Samuel and D’Angelo’s song “I Want You Forever” from The Book of Clarence soundtrack.

Check out Bleek’s tweet below: