not at all random but I caught the Pharcyde (minus Bootie Brown) yesterday, very joyful, and wow what a jam Runnin' is - those kicks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwHuEDCM7xs
In Dilla Time, Dan Charnas recounts the story of the attempted subterfuge of Dilla’s first major beat placement. As crafted by the young producer, “Runnin’” feels wholly different from anything else from its era, mainly thanks to its unconventional kick drums, which hit in unexpected places and don’t repeat in a discernible pattern. But Fatlip didn’t think they sounded right. So during the session for the song, when the rest of his Pharcyde cohorts were out of the studio, he moved the kicks to fall in predictable places. When group member Tre returned, he was incensed. He and Fatlip came to blows over it. “All this over a beat?” Dilla thought to himself. But when the dust settled, Tre’s viewpoint won out. “We’re not changing it,” he told Dilla. “That’s your signature.”
https://www.theringer.com/2022/2/1/22911750/40-best-j-dilla-beats-common-jay-dee-de-la-soul-tribe-donuts
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 10:44 (one year ago) link
never heard that vonte before! i love battlecat. listened to the whole album last night.
― four square ups... no punches thrown (Spottie), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 19:46 (one year ago) link
Yeah! Surprisingly above average MC and solid production. Love the Chaka interpolation on Don't Nobody.
That article above speculated on some "funded by drug money" lore and digging into the label Fo Life's discog it seems not at all shocking. Their only other full length release, "Stressin" by Bookie is chockfull of Battlecat beats, features Kurupt, E-40, Kool G Rap and Vontel himself. And is mastered by...Bernie Grundman!? lol. unfortunately not streaming but can be heard in full here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBTp1T7XgiI
― anza808, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 20:51 (one year ago) link
been missing bankroll fresh lately. guy could write a song. rip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5CIhUyJLmw
― deadmauZedong (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 22:17 (one year ago) link
a long time ago somebody told me one of my beats sounded like nujabes and i never took the cue to check him out. rectifying that...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orZdl3KqgzU
nujabes feat shing02 - "luv(sic) pt 2" (mid 2000s)
...and yeah, they were absolutely right. sadboi jazz chords+stiff drums is what i wanted to hear, so that's the kind of beats i made. granted, nothing near as stellar as this. shing02 is passable on the mic, but with a beat that dope he could've been rapping ABCs and it would've worked.
elsewhere, nujabes gets tf down-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XJFSTYryv4
nujabes - "world's end rhapsody" (2005)
not really relevant to the main topic here; essentially a re-edit of a northern soul 45. but much too hot of a jam not to post.
― my beard exists more than i do. (Austin), Monday, 1 May 2023 20:52 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV11KxIF6hM
Chill Rob G - Rob's World (unreleased)
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 15 June 2023 11:15 (one year ago) link
I'd somehow never heard this epic before. Produced by--and featuring!--Stevie Wonder!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bglEOTeBtqM
― niall horanburger (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 15:32 (one year ago) link
This article references plenty of random old rap
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/magazine/hip-hop-deaths.html
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 17:16 (one year ago) link
pretty insensitive way to frame this article, man
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 17:28 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsIu8RN7ivU
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 August 2023 20:16 (one year ago) link
Prob not random enough but i'm liking EPMD's Strictly Business a whole lot lately.
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 8 August 2023 20:37 (one year ago) link
loving that e bros
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 9 August 2023 11:42 (one year ago) link
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, August 8, 2023 3:37 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
greatest rap group ever imo
this is SOOOOOOOOO FUCKING HYPE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy9Fun9CuZ4
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 14:51 (one year ago) link
^^ straight up classic
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 15:06 (one year ago) link
the C stands for Cool Breezeknown as the champFreddy Calhounthe coolest cutter at camp
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 15:09 (one year ago) link
been listening to a lot of jungle bros. hadn't really dove into their catalog before, beyond the first album. 'done by the forces of nature' is excellent, but i recently listened to their "lost" album 'j beez wit da remedy' for the first time, and it blew my mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO1pg39-AHw
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 15:11 (one year ago) link
oh dang yeah that's awesome I wish I could hear that stuff for the first time again
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 15:12 (one year ago) link
there's the original (supposedly even weirder) version of Remedy that they did with Bill Laswell called Crazy Wisdom Masters which is floating around out there
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 15:13 (one year ago) link
I haven't heard it but I think Laswell put it up on bandcamp for a couple days before it was removed
haha yeah this is wild
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoBlsDzc3Tg
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 15:20 (one year ago) link
oh shit i need to dig those up, this is crazy
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 15:25 (one year ago) link
i found an article about it being available on laswell's bandcamp but the link went to a dead page :/
if you see it out there lmk!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 15:30 (one year ago) link
i have it, idk if i can post it here.
― ANU (sisilafami), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 22:49 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR7VbTbeIzI
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 August 2023 20:32 (one year ago) link
love this beat, they use the same little whistle sound as U.M.C.s on "Blue Cheese"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2asgFXe4Wgc
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 11 September 2023 21:53 (one year ago) link
I remember my gamer friends went nuts for “12 sided dice” on that album
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 01:22 (one year ago) link
Loved Dream Warriors as a kid. I still go back and listen to a few songs now and then.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 14:13 (one year ago) link
just a random observation about random old rap-why was it that hiphop beats were always getting commandeered for r+b songs? like how was it that these hardcare hiphop heads were having such a delicate ear for samples? i always think of redman's "tonight's da nite" - they even literally pause the record to call him out for the "punk smooth shit" only to have the exact same beat come back on while he swears more freely lol. sure enough, that same isaac hayes sample showed up on a tlc remix a couple years later - and it sounded great!
anyway, always thought it was funny how so much 90s hiphop would go on about its own hardness. but so many of the beats were loops from old slow jams and then would get repurposed and flourish on as r+b hits for the next year or so.
(lol remember when jlo jacked the beatnuts? that was... huh yeah, that happened)
― "another slice of death, please." (Austin), Sunday, 19 November 2023 18:16 (ten months ago) link
wasn't it the other way around? crate diggers and producers would come across great rnb samples but to some degree couldn't themselves put them to use in that context because of a perceived schism between rap vs. rnb
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 20 November 2023 11:35 (ten months ago) link
That Beatnuts bite definitely annoyed younger me.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 20 November 2023 15:31 (ten months ago) link
same, but that really was snobbish of me
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 20 November 2023 17:43 (ten months ago) link
Yeah, I mean the bite is pretty hard, like they barely even tweaked it at all. But I care less about that stuff now.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 20 November 2023 19:03 (ten months ago) link
stopped into the old bucksters just now and you'll never guess what was playing...
anyway—ya'll remember sporty thievz? they were dope! i think "no pigeons" was one of the last true "answer records" to gain any sort of traction. they were one of the groups that i always liked because they were basically picking up on the too $hort/snoop school of not givin a fuck "we don't luv dem hoez" rhyming and jeep beats. i was mostly into backpacker shit at the time, but always checked for them because these dudes could fucking rap circles around most folks. and you knew they were certified because when rawkus did the amadou diallo benfit album (not on streaming, grrrr), they were on it.
besides "no pigeons" i always thought it was funny that the thing they were most known for previously was... basically the same song with a different beat lol—https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdJzbH3nBtcsporty thievz — "cheapskate" (1997)
of course, they got cut short when marlon brando (not to be confused with the hollywood actor) died in a freak car accident. i remember reports at the time saying that he saw the car coming and was only in harm's way to get other people out of there. idk if he "saved someone's life" or whatever, but damn: twenty fucking two. respect.
― "another slice of death, please." (Austin), Sunday, 26 November 2023 22:47 (ten months ago) link
going back to some old indie mixtape favorites and i can't believe i'm posting a song featuring talib kweli, but even he can't fuck this one up...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8VdTrvddaMmakeba mooncycle feat talib kweli — "lunchroom classics" (1999) prod by j rawls from lone catalysts
this old school mama came to save ya!
definitive feel good backpack jams.
― "another slice of death, please." (Austin), Sunday, 3 December 2023 22:07 (nine months ago) link
i love random old rap
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 4 December 2023 09:37 (nine months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bygqGezBJQ
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Monday, 18 December 2023 08:14 (nine months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5968tbRsiY
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Monday, 22 January 2024 07:15 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gLw5j-Wxu0
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Monday, 22 January 2024 07:35 (eight months ago) link
wonderful beat
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 22 January 2024 12:17 (eight months ago) link
Same sample as Sally got a one track mind though
― Nabozo, Monday, 22 January 2024 12:45 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEOOXtvUc3g
this is my "Ante Up" just beyond ignorant lyrical box cutter shit
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 22 January 2024 16:53 (eight months ago) link
hi i'm a pendant. can we please post artist and track titles in addition to videos?
going back to spottie's first post, we have:mr doctor - '40 oz+chronic dice'the jacka, fed-x+rydah j. klyde - 'the same thing everyday'and then ums with smoothe da hustler's 'broken language'
(smoothe da hustler+trigger tha gambler-- there's a sorely forgetton ultra charismatic 90s duo!)
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Monday, 22 January 2024 17:03 (eight months ago) link
lol don't fuck with me, i'm a PENDANT YA'LL.
(pedant, obvs lol)
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Monday, 22 January 2024 17:06 (eight months ago) link
yeah that's a good idea esp when the youtube links go dead sometimes
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 22 January 2024 17:08 (eight months ago) link
xpost I don't know why Smoothe's Once Upon a Time in America isn't held up with stuff like The Infamous or Cuban Links
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 22 January 2024 17:09 (eight months ago) link
im always on the hunt to find tracks where rappers take on the broken language flowie chance the returnhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npgLWoBZZfU
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Monday, 22 January 2024 20:38 (eight months ago) link
what does "ignorant lyrical box cutter shit" mean, serious q
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 01:24 (eight months ago) link
was an thing old ny street rappers would mention, sneaking a box cutter into a club as a weapon
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 01:26 (eight months ago) link
Kind of became shorthand for a certain type of raw East Coast street rap
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 01:27 (eight months ago) link
ah okay, thanks for the context. and ignorant in this case means "dumb" like "stupid good" ? haha sorry to be a square
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 01:30 (eight months ago) link