Kanye West and Jay Z scored a hit back in 2011 with “Niggas in Paris,” a cut off their collaborative album Watch the Throne. The song’s title proved to be a bit controversial, with artists like Public Enemy’s Chuck D calling the pair out for what he viewed as an “egregious” use of the term. Former Grantland and The Awl publisher David Cho recently stopped by ItsTheReal’s A Waste Of Time podcast, where he shared an interesting bit of information about the famous album: Kanye originally wanted to put the n-word in the title of every song.

“Kanye said, ‘We’re going to put the n-word in every single title on this album to that everyone has to say it, they have to confront it’,” Cho recalled about the Watch the Throne studio session he attended, saying that Jay Z originally wanted “Niggas in Paris” to be titled “Ball So Hard.”

Although Cho doesn’t know exactly how they reached a compromise, the n-word only ended up making it into the title of “Niggas in Paris.” Still, that song ended up being the most popular Watch the Throne track, peaking at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and moving more than three million copies in the U.S. Jay and Kanye also famously performed it ten times in a row at their 2012 concert in Paris.

You can listen to the podcast above and read all the lyrics to Kanye West and Jay Z’s “Watch the Throne” on Genius now.