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Thursday, June 29th, 2006Ok, ok, so we’re late but we’re back with “the jumpoff”- which, automatically leads me to a semi-unrelated yet poignant point- wasn’t slang back in the wu-tang era mad mo’ flyer than it is nowadays? “Get Crunk” just can’t compare to “politickin”, “tommy hill ice rockin”, “poisonous darts”, “witty unpredictable fly shit” and countless [...]
SW13: Rae & Ghost
Thursday, June 29th, 2006Ok, ok, so we’re late but we’re back with “the jumpoff”- which, automatically leads me to a semi-unrelated yet poignant point- wasn’t slang back in the wu-tang era mad mo’ flyer than it is nowadays? “Get Crunk” just can’t compare to “politickin”, “tommy hill ice rockin”, “poisonous darts”, “witty unpredictable fly shit” and countless [...]
Sample Wednesday 12: Dynamic Duo Series
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006Along with the next installment of “The Chronic” from Dr. Dre, an album from AZ & Nas is something that hip-hop heads have dreamed about for a long ass time, and it’ll probably never happen. Whatever the case, whenever these two get together, it’s magic. It’s a shame that over the course of a decade, [...]
Sample Wednesday 11: Freestyle Fellowship
Wednesday, June 14th, 2006pe-ac-mi-ju* down the avenue
Seriously…At fifteen growing up in L.A., there was no one doing it that could even touch these dudes. Going to the Goodlife, or the Blowed, or Unity, or wherever, and seeing these dudes rap was like watching the Lakers live at the forum or something. There was a period between my senior [...]
Sample Wednesday 10: Erykah Badu
Thursday, June 1st, 2006I was lucky enough to go to the second night of the Roots shows at Radio City recently; at first I wasn’t too impressed, the typical Roots show felt a lot less exciting than it used to. I’ve seen them enough at this point get a little tired of ?uest’s piercing snare. But I was [...]
Sample Wednesday 9: El-P
Wednesday, May 10th, 2006(from my days as a Def Jukie)
Perhaps not exactly the kind of artist people might expect for this feature, due to the fact that most people assume he doesn’t sample at all. Jaime Meline aka El-Producto has a particular affinity to soundtracks (big surprise), late 70′s – early 80′s glam and kitsch, and semi-ambient single [...]
Sample Wednesday 8: Nas
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006For this week’s installment, I have tracks from one of the most inconsistent voices in hiphop, Mr. Kelis (still?) aka Nasty Nas aka drugdealername aka Jay-Z’s new buddy aka Nasir Jones. The son of 70′s jazz trumpeter Olu Dara aka Charles Jones aka notasfamousastheysay. Nas was born in 1973, a true child of the [...]
Sample Wednesday 7: Mos Def
Friday, April 28th, 2006The thing about this quickly beloved feature is that it takes a bunch of time to put together. To rip vinyl, search the internet, go through cd’s, and finally to go through the semi-arduous process of posting the shit. So then you might say: “But Haldan, why not just post fewer songs? It’ll take you [...]
Sample Wednesday 6: Bad Boy
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006We all miss Big. Thankfully, Puffy pretty much stopped making his “solo” music. As far as I remember, it was Puff’s fault (and maybe little bit Vanilla Ice’s too) that sample clearance became such a big issue in the mainstream media. The man seriously ripped people off. And the songs he stole usually weren’t even [...]
Sample Wednesday 5: David Axelrod
Thursday, April 13th, 2006After a week of relaxation and lots of good food, I return home to a construction site. I leave a beautiful garden in the south of Sjaelland (Denmark) only to return to a backyard full of styrofoam filings, window screens, and crushed flowers. At least the construction workers didn’t pull the trick of breaking into [...]
Sample Wednesday 4: Friday
Friday, March 31st, 2006Instead of posting the wonderful collection we meant to post a couple days ago, we’re going to save it for next week, when we have your full attention. This week I’ll share a little assortment of songs – some of which we posted when we were just starting this blog, before Sample Wednesday was a [...]
Sample Wednesday 3: Dr. Dre
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006Some of these songs have been sampled up the wazoo. Especially Labi Siffre’s “I Got the Blues”- the intro has been sampled by everyone and their mother. The sample Dre took doesn’t come in until like the middle of the track, but you shouldn’t have a problem getting bored listening to this gem. Apologies for [...]
Sample Wednesday 2: Jay Z
Wednesday, March 15th, 2006Sample Wednesday 2 comes courtesy of Skunt Williams, the man who came up with the idea to do this source revealing weekday. Enjoy our little tribute to Hov, the most powerful man in Hip Hop.
Bobby Glenn – “Sounds Like a Love Song“From “Song Cry”Bobby Blue Bland – “Ain’t No Love in the Heart of the [...]
Sample Wednesday: Wu
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006The first inaugural Sample Wednesday, where we do the digging so you don’t have to. This round: fun with The Wu-Tang Clan, whose crew now stretches across the globe, from Staten Island all the way to Finland.
The Sylvers – “Wish That I Could Talk To You” from “Mighty Healthy” (also RJD2′s “Here’s What’s Left”)New [...]
