Jan 17th
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| Jimmy Castor passed away earlier today, leaving behind a musical legacy as immense as an iceberg. As Dr. King once said: "Seeing is not always believing." You've gotta dig deep to appreciate the magnitude of "It's Just Begun", an audible treat from 1972 that finds the funk/disco saxophonist letting loose with one of the illest [...] |
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25 days ago. Jan 17th
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| Jimmy Castor passed away earlier today, leaving behind a musical legacy as immense as an iceberg. As Dr. King once said: "Seeing is not always believing." You've gotta dig deep to appreciate the magnitude of "It's Just Begun", an audible treat from 1972 that finds the funk/disco saxophonist letting loose with one of the illest [...] |
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| 25 days ago. Dec 16th
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| Shouts to producer Tommy Black, who laced Kendrick with this gorgeous instrumental. The sample is just as beautiful though, with the source for this smooth/trippy/beautiful beat being provided by "Hey", a track off neo soul group King's 2001 EP release entitled The Story. Listen to King's EP in its entirety below: [...] |
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| 1 month, 26 days ago. Dec 16th
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| So......epic. |
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| 1 month, 26 days ago. Dec 16th
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| I proudly present to you: Zombie Nation's "Kernkraft 400", a.k.a. the song you heard at basketball games but couldn't remember the name of 'til Cool & Dre sampled it for "Red Nation". At least that was my experience. I'm not a fan of techno by any stretch of the imagination, but this track just works [...] |
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| 1 month, 27 days ago. Dec 16th
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| I proudly present to you: Zombie Nation's "Kernkraft 400", a.k.a. the song you heard at basketball games but couldn't remember the name of 'til Cool & Dre sampled it for "Red Nation". At least that was my experience. I'm not a fan of techno by any stretch of the imagination, but this track just works [...] |
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| 1 month, 27 days ago. Dec 16th
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| Propelled by its catchy Chris Brown hook, "Pot of Gold" fits the criteria for a solid crossover hit, much thanks to this cheery beat provided by L.A.-based production duo The Futuristics. Could they be the next Stargate? |
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| 1 month, 27 days ago. Dec 16th
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| Propelled by its catchy Chris Brown hook, "Pot of Gold" fits the criteria for a solid crossover hit, much thanks to this cheery beat provided by L.A.-based production duo The Futuristics. Could they be the next Stargate? |
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| 1 month, 27 days ago. Dec 16th
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| Alabama producer M16 serves this Gladys Knight sample up proper, showing love to arguably the most underrated theme song in the James Bond series of films - License to Kill. Not familiar with M16? Get familiar! He's also responsible for lacing the three-headed dragon of Jeezy, Jay and 'Dre with "I Do". |
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| 1 month, 27 days ago. Dec 16th
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| Alabama producer M16 serves this Gladys Knight sample up proper, showing love to arguably the most underrated theme song in the James Bond series of films - License to Kill. Not familiar with M16? Get familiar! He's also responsible for lacing the three-headed dragon of Jeezy, Jay and 'Dre with "I Do". |
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| 1 month, 27 days ago. Dec 16th
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| Damn. Before 2011, the only t.A.T.u. song I knew was "All the Things She Said". Things done changed. I'm not too sure how resourceful the Russian pop duo's catalog might just turn out to be in terms of finding more sample-worthy content, but Swizz Beatz certainly scored a win with this right here (though he [...] |
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| 1 month, 27 days ago. Dec 15th
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| People have often called Killer Mike the (new) Ice Cube of the South. To be sure, Mike Bigga's his own man. But that being said, it's only right that one of these days he'd find himself spitting his firebrand barbs over some Funkadelic. What a pleasant surprise it is in 2011 to hear emcees still [...] |
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| 1 month, 27 days ago. Dec 15th
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| Not to be confused with Isaac Hayes' "Ellie's Love Theme" from the Shaft soundtrack (which has been sampled numerous times - most notably on the intro to Biggie's classic Mister Cee freestyle), this beautiful track off The Pointer Sisters' debut LP, Steppin', is nothing short of a gem. Big ups to J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League! |
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| 1 month, 27 days ago. Dec 15th
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| Speaking of "clocking double shifts", shouts to J. Cole for dropping an album this year and producing some great tracks for other emcees, including this gem from Kendrick Lamar's must-have Section.80. Cole... won? |
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| 1 month, 27 days ago. Dec 15th
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| Front on Mac Miller all you want - and believe me, I do it all the time - but this sample, lifted from the GetBackers original soundtrack, is beautiful. So smooth! I'm happy to see the video game-sampling trend continue on... |
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| 1 month, 27 days ago. Dec 15th
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| Premo laced him. ALC did too. Cats & Dogs. Classic. Cop that sh*t! |
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| 1 month, 28 days ago. Dec 15th
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| Premo laced him. ALC did too. Cats & Dogs. Classic. Cop that sh*t! |
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| 1 month, 28 days ago. Dec 14th
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| My sample compiling continues (I'm at 200+ tracks right now) with another production highlight of the year: Kool G Rap's "In Too Deep", laced by DJ Supa Dave - who knocked this one clean out the park. If you still haven't picked up a copy of Riches, Royalty & Respect, you're doing yourself a great [...] |
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| 1 month, 29 days ago. Dec 14th
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| My sample compiling continues (I'm at 200+ tracks right now) with another production highlight of the year: Kool G Rap's "In Too Deep", laced by DJ Supa Dave - who knocked this one clean out the park. If you still haven't picked up a copy of Riches, Royalty & Respect, you're doing yourself a great [...] |
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| 1 month, 29 days ago. Dec 12th
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| With 2011 in the can (© Combat Jack; ||), I'm doing what I always do 'round this time of year - compiling... compilations! Best of all I'm working on my Samples of the Year 2011 joint which is poised to be the biggest one yet. So big in fact I may need to distribute it [...] |
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| 2 months, 1 day ago. Oct 30th
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| I've been planning the release of a sample set for Common's opus, Resurrection, for over a year or so but just never got around to completing the project. As chance would have it, a couple weeks back I was watching the 1991 film The Five Heartbeats and stumbled upon an audio snippet which was sampled [...] |
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| 3 months, 14 days ago. Sep 27th
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| Lack of updates here at Hip Hop Is Read are fully to blame due to my new-ish 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. work schedule. Yes, you read that correctly. I wanted to finish this sample set a couple of weeks ago in unison with Traffic Entertainment Group's impressive box set/deluxe re-issue of Pete Rock & [...] |
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| 1 year, 4 months ago. Sep 24th
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| A bit of advice from A Tribe Called Quest: when stating your objective, let it out at the offset. Q-Tip did just that on "Excursions", the intro to their sophomore (and possibly greatest) LP The Low End Theory:Back in the days when I was a teenager/Before I had status and before I had a pager/You [...] |
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| 1 year, 4 months ago. Sep 5th
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| Original artwork by Ryan Fors; "Yes you can buy one" :)Even if Pete Rock isn't your favorite producer, I'd still think you'd need to admit that he is the greatest sample chopper of all time. Of all time! (Sorry, Kanye.) It's not just the eclecticism of his dusty digs, but it's the way in which [...] |
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| 1 year, 5 months ago. Sep 2nd
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| This set is my gift to Combat Jack (and Dallas Penn - even if he doesn't want it). What we've got here is a small sampling of music from Africa, handpicked by Jr. Gong & Crew. As Damian Marley explained in an interview, one of the driving forces behind this collaborative record with soul brother [...] |
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| 1 year, 5 months ago. Sep 2nd
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| This set is my gift to Combat Jack (and Dallas Penn - even if he doesn't want it). What we've got here is a small sampling of music from Africa, handpicked by Jr. Gong & Crew. As Damian Marley explained in an interview, one of the driving forces behind this collaborative record with soul brother [...] |
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| 1 year, 5 months ago. Aug 24th
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| Puff addresses rumors, says he has not robbed or mistreated previous artists on Bad Boy. |
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| 1 year, 5 months ago. Aug 22nd
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| If you are living in the world today, remember to read the labels when entering the cold world of killah hills 10304. Investigative reports state that the duel of the iron mic took place in the 4th chamber. And it was the infamous shadowboxin' technique that lured MC's into the razor sharp blades of solid [...] |
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| 1 year, 5 months ago. 