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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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23 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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| 23 days ago. Nov 30th
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| Rest In Patrice... |
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| 2 months, 11 days ago. Nov 27th
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| 2 months, 13 days ago. Oct 29th
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| The Interscope-backed sensation/Fader cover artist has "I Just Wanna Party," "Box Chevy" and "I Wish" on the album version of the mixtape. |
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| 1 year, 3 months ago. Oct 10th
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| Solomon Burke(March 21, 1940 – October 10, 2010) |
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| 1 year, 4 months 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. Jul 26th
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| BIG R.I.P. to a legend. Hip hop wouldn't be the same without Melvin Bliss' amazing breakbeat on "Synthetic Substitution." As a brief primer on the track's impact on hip hop and sampling, here's a collection of HHIR sample sets that feature "Synthetic Substitution":And there's PLENTY more where ^that^ came from...R.I.P. Melvin Bliss [...] |
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| 1 year, 6 months ago. 