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List is in [Artist] - [Track] - [Album] format. Requests italicized, new releases marked with a ***. Awesome songs that you have to check out in bold (well everything’s awesome really).
Camp Lo - Get Em Lo Gang (Trackstar Blend) - 80 Blocks From Tiffany’s
The Peter Malick Group - New York City Ft. Norah Jones (DJ Strobe Brooklyn Remix)
Giant Panda - With It
People Under the Stairs - All Good Things - Carried Away
Menelik - Quelle Aventure
Kero One - In All the Wrong Places
One Be Lo - True Love - S.O.N.O.G.R.A.M
One Self - Sunday Afternoon
Crown City Rockers - Weekend Soul - Crown City Rockers
Sound Providers - Night Steps
The Jazzual Suspects - This Beat
Morphine - Sundayafternoonweightlessness
Herbie Hancock - Chameleon
The Red Garland Quintet - Soul Junction - Soul Junction
Jackie McLean - Blue Fable
Lee Morgan - Rigormortis - Tom Cat
Curtis Fuller - Five Spot After Dark - Blues-Ette
David Hazeltine - But Here’s The Thing - Blues Quarters Vol. 2
Alright, so it was bound to happen one of these days but it seems that I have misplaced my playlist for this last show. So here’s what I played..in no specific order.
List is in [Artist] - [Track] - [Album] format. Requests italicized, new releases marked with a ***. Awesome songs that you have to check out in bold (well everything’s awesome really).
Binary Star - Reality Check - Masters of the Universe
Dres - As I Look Back - Sure Shot Redemption
Camp Lo - Luchini (A.K.A. This Is It) - Uptown Saturday Night
Crown City Rockers - Mesmerize - Crown City Rockers
Blackalicious - Deception - Nia
People Under The Stairs - The Grind - Fun DMC
Digable Planets - La Femme Fetal - Reachin (A New Refutation Of Time And Space)
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - One in a Million - Best of Pete Rock & Cl Smooth: Good Life
Madlib - Steppin’ Into Tomorrow - Shades of Blue
Odd Future - Orange Juice - Radical
Atmosphere - The Waitress - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
Aim - From Here to Fame
Atmosphere - Sunshine
Fat Joe - The Crack Attack
***Hoodie Allen - No Interruption - All American
Jeru the Damaja - D. Original
Nujabes - Luv(sic) Pt. 5 ft. Shing02
Macklemore - Stay at Home Dad
One Be Lo - Rocketship
Silent Knight - Stayin
Sir Menelik - Let’s Build for a Sec
Sol - Stage Dive
Sound Providers - It’s Gonna Be Alright
Surreal - Gratitude Suite
Typical Cats - Snake Oil
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dblcheeseburger Said:
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May you rest in beats Adam Yauch (aka MCA, the founding member of the Beastie Boys)
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List is in [Artist] - [Track] - [Album] format. Requests italicized, new releases marked with a ***. Awesome songs that you have to check out in bold (well everything’s awesome really).
Phil Ade - Breakadawn Freestyle - #PhilAdeFriday
Insight - Bother Me - Blast Radius
The Funk League - What’s Wrong With Groovin’? - Funky As Usual
Pat D & Lady Paradox - Leave It Behind - Soulscapes and Jazz Breaks
Self Taught - Fools Rush ft. Inkspill - 5 Year Journey
Mr. Lif - My Number One - Sleepyheads 3
Sound Providers - Truth Be Told - True Indeed
Living Legends - Night Prowler
Earl Sweatshirt - Couch Featuring Ace Creator - EARL
Jonwayne - Pachabel - I Don’t Care
Gramatik - A Bunch Of Questions - Street Bangerz Vol. 3
Crown City Rockers - Fate - Earthtones
Masta Killa - Street Corner - Made in Brooklyn
Funkdoobiest - Dedicated (Funkmaster Flex Remix) - Remixes [by Hillside]
The Funk League - The Boogie Down Bombers (Feat. Diamond D, Sadat X) - Funky As Usual
Camp Lo - Coolie High - Uptown Saturday Night
Sims - Pay No Mind - False Hopes 14
Doomtree - Sadie Hawkins - Doomtree
Sims - T C A G - False Hopes 14
De La Soul - Breakadawn [Foncett Power Radio Mix] - Buhloone Mindstate
Ruth Brown - It’s Love Baby - Miss Rhythm (Greatest Hits And More)
Buckshot LeFonque - Breakfast at Denny’s - Buckshot LeFonque
Hank Mobley - Recado Bossa Nova - Blue Note Trip 2: Sunset
Joe Henderson - Blue Bossa - Blue Note Trip 2: Sunrise
Horace Silver - Sayonara Blues - Tokyo Blues
Stan Getz - Winter Moon - The Bossa Nova Years (Girl from Ipanema)
Cause’ we all could use donuts.
Check out Nas’ new single “Daughters”, produced by No I.D. off the upcoming album “Life Is Good” Available July 17th!
(via classichiphop)
WAX - RED
Wax spitting one of his best tracks in the studio.
Sound Providers - 5 Minutes feat. The Procussions (Remix)
1. Large Professor Would Edit Nas’ Rhymes
Hip-hop purists might find this hard to believe, but the lyrical masterpiece of Illmatic wasn’t constructed by just one man. Every great writer needs a great editor and for Nas it was Large Professor. Extra P would bring Nas to studio sessions during the making of Eric B. & Rakim’s Let the Rhythm Hit ‘Em and drop jewels.
“He helped me because I only knew half of what was going on,” said Nas, to Mass Appeal back in 2002. “I knew about the pen touching the paper. Paul knew that too, but he also knew to tell me, ‘Don’t say this. Take that out. Why would you say this? That makes you look crazy! This word don’t make no sense.’” He taught me everything.” IT WAS WRITTEN EDITED!
2.Russell Simmons Passed On Signing Nas
Hip-hop history is filled with missed opportunities and almost moments. Kanye was going to sign to Capitol Records, Game was going to sign to Bad Boy, and Eminem was looking to sign to an underground label before Dr. Dre came calling. Turns out the same is true for Nas.
Nasty was going to sign to his current label Def Jam back in the early ’90s but Russell Simmons passed on him because he feared the album would be a commercial flop. In retrospect, it might seem like it was a short-sighted decision but Russell was right; Illmatic failed to go gold in it’s first year. Nas later recounted the entire situation on the song “Surviving The Times” where he said he was compared to Kool G Rap, “Russell said I sounded like G, the nigga fronted.”
3. Nas Did “N.Y. State of Mind” In One Take
What’s crazy about “New York State of Mind” isn’t just that it’s Nas’ best song ever, what’s crazy is how many tries it took for a young Nas to get it just right.
“He did that in one take,” explained to DJ Premier. According to Nas, the original verse was close to 60 bars which he wrote in the studio that day.
“If you listen to ‘N.Y. State of Mind’” continued Premier. “You’ll hear him going, ‘I don’t know how to start this shit,’ because he literally just wrote it. Before he started the verse, I was signaling him going, ‘One, two, three,’ and he just goes in.”
4. It’s Short Because It Was Rushed
One of the most distinct features about Illmatic is its length. At a mere 39 minutes and nine songs, it’s the type of album that proves that sometimes less is more. However, the tracklisting was more a result of rush than design.
In the years leading up to the album’s release, the streets were so thirsty for Nas material that enterprising DJs started putting album cuts on street mixtapes and playing the songs on college radio.
In fact, MC Serch once claimed they found a garage filled with 60,000 bootleg Illmatic albums before the album’s release. That’s why Columbia rushed the Illmatic’s release in ’94 and dropped their original plan of making it a larger, longer project.
5. Nas Wanted To Sample “Juicy Fruit” Before Biggie
Biggie’s best song “Juicy” was released in 1994 and built over a sample of Mtume’s “Juicy Fruit.” But it turns out Nas was also a big fan of “Juicy Fruit.” So much so that according to Nas, he asked producer L.E.S. to bring the record to the studio so he could sample it.
But L.E.S. didn’t have that song so he brought The Gap Band’s “Yearning for Your Love” and looped that up instead. Once Nas heard the beat, he forgot all about Mtume’s hit and opted to rhyme over the Gap Band sample and make “Life’s A Bitch.” Both songs are great, but we can’t help but wonder what could have been.
6. Nas Begged Large Professor To Executive Producer The Album But He Refused
“I wanted him to executive-produce that record, but he told me that I had to do it on my own,” explained Nas. “I was like, ‘Please! Executive produce my album.’ And he said, ‘Yo, my shit isn’t even straight.’” What Extra P was referring to was the messy breakup with his group Main Source that he was going through at the time. Large Professor would go on say that he wasn’t interested in signing Nas and that he wanted Nas to go out and make his own money.
7. Large Professor Almost Had To Smack The Hit Out of MC Serch
After Large Professor pulled out from being the album’s executive producer, Nas teamed up with MC Serch. But it wasn’t all good. “Paul was with me,” said Nas. “And he had to scream on Serch and almost smack the shit out of him.” We’re not sure what the alleged almost altercation was about, but we’d much rather get the gasface than get smacked in the face.
8. Busta Rhymes Could Have Had The “Halftime” Beat
Busta Rhymes once told XXL that Large Professor made the beat that would later become “Halftime” in front of him. But once Busta got the beat, he didn’t know what to do with it. He told XXL, “Then I heard it on ‘Halftime,’ and I was like, Goddamn, I was a stupid ass for not touching this beat!”
9. Q-Tip’s Original Idea For “One Love” Was “My Summer Vacation”
Leading up the album, Nas wrote a record that was about sending letters to friends in prison and he wondered why no one had done it before. When he went to the studio, Q-Tip suggested the idea of doing a song where a kid reads a letter in class about what he did during his summer vacation. But Nas had a different kind of vacation in mind…
10. AZ’s Verse On “Life’s A B***h” Lead To A Bidding War
AZ was initially hesitant to drop a verse on “Life’s A Bitch” but then eventually did and it turned out to be a classic. In fact, it was so well received a bidding war began over who would get to sign AZ. In the end, AZ signed with EMI and dropped his underrated debut Do Or Die in 1995.
Fresh stuff to me this week. I really like that Self Taught album, check it out here for a download.
List is in [Artist] - [Track] - [Album] format. Requests italicized, new releases marked with a ***. Awesome songs that you have to check out in bold (well everything’s awesome really).
Self Taught - Woodwards Sale - 5 Year Journey
OCD: Moosh & Twist - It’s All Good - The Vestibule
***Big K.R.I.T. - 1986 - 4Eva N A Day
chu. - Ya got to be funky. - messychops
The Funk League - Humble Arrogance Pt. 1 & 2 (Feat. Supa) - Funky As Usual
Digable Planets - Graffiti - Blowout Comb
Qwazaar & Batsauce - Never Weaker - Bat Meets Blaine
Magnetic Man - Crossover
Atmosphere - God’s Bathroom Floor
Self Taught - Fly Away - 5 Year Journey
chu. - Baby baby - messychops
The Funk League - Through Good & Bad (Breaking North Mix) (Feat. Large Professor) - Funky As Usual
Goodie Mob - Cell Therapy - Soul Food
Funkdoobiest - Doobie To The Head - Which Doobie U B?
Zion I - Silly Puddy - Mind Over Matter
***Quakers - Flapjacksmm - Quakers
Insight - Lots Of Facts About Control - Blast Radius
Funkdoobiest - Papi Chulo (Remix 2) - Remixes [by Hillside]
Pharoahe Monch - Body Baby - Desire
DJ Nu-Mark & DJ Pomo - Melody - Blend Crafters
Chinese Man - Racing With The Sun Remix by Deluxe - Remix With The Sun
chu. - heck yes - messychops
Gramatik - Break Loose - Beatz & Pieces Vol. 1
The Funk League - You’re Gonna Learn (Feat. Andy Cooper from Ugly Duckling) - Funky As Usual
Crown City Rockers - Fate - Earthtones
***Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) - Sunshine Screwface - Live in Paris
Chinese Man - In My Room feat Chali 2Na - Remix With The Sun
Emanon - Love Sick - Anon & On
Mr. J Medeiros - Pale Blue Dot (20syl Remix ft. Shad) - Pale Blue Dot
Pat D & Lady Paradox - New Dawn (feat. Benjamin Zephaniah, Selone) - Soulscapes & Jazz Breaks
Briskey - Baton Jaune - Cucumber Lodge
Herbie Hancock - Butterfly - Live
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