We Are The World 2010: Nipsey Hussle reveals details of rappers role

A number of Hip-Hop artists have recorded vocals for the 2010 version of 'We Are The World', the proceeds of which will be donated to victims of the Haiti earthquake.

Nipsey Hussle has been talking about how the rappers appraoched the song, during their February 2nd recording session.

" ... as far as the rapping, LL [Cool J] did the original lead vocal for the rap," he told XXLmag. "Everybody rapped the same verse, we stacked our vocals and then after, LL, will.i.am went it, then Jamie Foxx, Snoop [Dogg], myself."

"And what it was, after we laid our vocals in the studio, we all got together to record the visual, and that's when everybody had their individual mic and we rapped it at the same time. As far as the recording, everybody did it individually and for the video part of it, everybody had their own mic and it was kind of like a choir type situation."

On the verses, he added, " ... It was a 12-bar verse. I think LL wrote it and it was just talking about the disaster, similar to how everybody need to come together, it was you know uplifting lyrics. It wasn't nothing corny, it was something that people would be able to relate to but still universal."

Nipsey also commented on the singers recording session saying:

"Everyone was doing individual tracks on top of the group tracks. Like, Justin Bieber would do his, the girl [Nicole Scherzinger] from The Pussycat Dolls would do hers, Busta [Rhymes] did his and they would just stack it on top of each other like how you do a hook," he said.

"We Are the World" is produced by Quincy Jones, RedOne and Lionel Richie. It will be released with a special 3-D music video on February 12, 2010.