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The XX’s unique sound has been catching a lot of ears, including Simpsons creator Matt Groening who asked the band to perform at a music festival he organized in England.
Other artists have sampled the popular Intro track from the XX, but none do it better than the underground hip hop duo from Seattle, the Blue Scholars.
DJ Funktuall presents Volume 27 of his Hip Hop Sample breakdown series. In this Chilled Out Edition, DJ Funktuall gives you a history lesson on the original samples and the proceeding songs that used them.
Be-Intro – Common
No Escapin This – Beatnuts
Keep Risin’ to the Top – Doug E. Fresh
Around the Way Girl – LL Cool J
Smooth Operator – Big Daddy Kane
I Wanna Rock – DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
Take You There – Pete Rock & CL Smooth
U Da Man – Black Moon
Love No Limit – Mary J. Blige
How to Roll a Blunt – Redman
Rap Phenomenon – Notorious B.I.G. w/ Method & Redman
I Pioneered This – MC Shan
(Lately) I’ve Been Thinking – Common feat. Sean Lett
Fat Rat – Grand Puba
Straight from Da Ghetto – Lost Boyz
Born to Live – OC
Paradise – LL Cool J feat. Amerie
How to Flow – Nice & Smooth
Mind Blowin’ – The D.O.C.
Mind Blowin – Pete Rock w. Vinia Mojica
Keep Risin’ to the Top – Doug E. Fresh
Stressed Out – ATCQ w/ Faith Evans
Spaceship – Kanye West
Hit Em Up – 2pac feat. Outlawz
Time to Go – King Sun
Cappucino – MC Lyte
Quitter – Eminem
Get Money – Junior MAFIA
Final Chapter ~ He’s Dead – Scarface
I Beeped You – Father MC
and the bassline to PAID IN FULL
and this just in: Way of Life – Lil’ Wayne
I Got 5 On It – Luniz
Satisfy You – Puffy feat R. Kelly
Shorty Wanna Be a Thug – 2Pac
Drive Slow – Kanye West feat. Paul Wall & GLC
No One’s Iller – Eminem feat. Bizarre, Swifty & Fuzz
Picture Me Rollin – 2Pac
Street Dreams – Nas
All Eyez On Me – 2Pac
A hilarious animation comparing copying and theft.
“Copying is not theft. Stealing a thing leaves one less left. Copying it makes one thing more, that’s what copying’s for!”
In Kid Ink’s music video for Time Of Your Life, Jennifer Jayleen Martinez plays the role of a perfect stoner girlfriend.
You ain’t gotta leave
My bad, I know this isn’t usually your scene
But don’t worry about it girl, just be yourself
And I swear, I ain’t gonna, I ain’t gonna say a thing
Now go just have the time of your life, the time of your life, let it go
You can tell that a beat was produced by DJ Premier if it has these Primo qualities:
1. Just a straight boom bap, nothing else
2. Some sort of spooky sounding violins
3. 1-6 different keyboard keys with a slight reverb, spooky sounding
4. Some soul/gospel/jazz sounding sample
5. Lots of scratches and vocal sample mixes from other songs
25 Mc Lyte – Wonder Years
24 Guru – The Anthem
23 Nas – Come Get Me
22 AZ – The Come Up
21 Das EFX – Real Hip Hop
20 Gang Starr – Royalty
19 Jeru Tha Damaja – Ain’t The Devil Happy
18 KRS-One – Outta Here
17 Crooklyn Dodgers ’95 – Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers
16 Royce Da 5′ 9 – Boom
15 Group Home – Living Proof
14 Fat Joe – Shit Is Real (Dj Premier Remix)
13 Nas -Represent
12 Gangstarr – The Militia
11 Lox – Recognize
10 Gang Starr – Code Of The Streets
09 CNN – Invincible
08 Gang Starr – Moment of truth
07 Gang Starr – Take it Personal
06 Nas – Memory Lane
05 Gangstarr – Full Clip
04 Pitch Black – It’s All Real
03 Nas – Nas Is Like
02 Gang Starr – Mass Appeal
01 Nas – N.Y. State of Mind
50 Gang Starr – Now You’re Mine
49 Shyheim – On And On
48 Termanology – Watch How It Go Down
47 OC – My World
46 Non Phixion – Rock Stars
45 Big L – Platinum Plus
44 Gang Starr — Skillz
43 Gang Starr ft. MC Solaar – Le Tempto
42 Big L – The Big Picture Intro
41 Jay-Z – So Ghetto
40 Fat Joe – Crack Attack
39 Gang Starr feat. M.O.P — Half And Half
38 AZ – The Format
37 Afu-Ra — Defeat
36 Common – The 6th Sense
35 Royce Da 5’9 – Hip-Hop
34 Jadakiss – None Of Y’all Betta
33 Gang Starr – You Know My Steez
32 Showbiz and Ag – Next Level
31 Limp Bizkit ft. Method Man – N 2 Gether Now
30 Mos Def — Mathematics
29 Jay-Z – Intro A Million And One Questions
28 KRS-One – MC’s Act Like They Don`t Know
27 Rakim – When I Be On The Mic
26 Big Daddy Kane, Shyheim, ODB and Jay-Z – Show and Prove
80. Big Shug ft.Guru – Counter Punch (Who’s Hard?)
79. Group Home – Supa Star (Livin’ Proof)
78. Cormega – Dirty Game (My Brother’s Keeper)
77. Gang Starr – Battle (8 Mile OST)
76. Big Shug – Do Ya (Who’s Hard?)
75. Guru ft.Mendoughza – Back 2 Back (Baldheadslick & Da Click)
74. Tony Touch ft.Gang Starr – The Piece Maker (The Diaz Bros. VLS)
73. Jeru the Damaja – Me or The Papes (Wrath of the Math)
72. Big Shug – Tha Way It Iz (Who’s Hard)
71. Group Home ft.Guru – The Legacy (A Tear For The Getto)
70. NYG’z – Ya Dayz R #’D (Welcome 2 G-Dom)
69. Blaq Poet – Voices
68. Gang Starr – JFK 2 LAX (Moment of Truth)
67. Big Shug ft.Singapore Kane – Streets Move (Street Champ)
66. Group Home – Suspended In Time (Livin’ Proof)
65. Guru ft.Donell Jones – Hustlin’ Daze (Jazzmatazz III:Street Soul)
64. Afu-Ra – Mic Stance (The Body of the Life Force)
63. J-Live – The Best Part (The Best Part)
62. NYG’z – Giantz Ta Thiz (Welcome 2 G-Dom)
61. Jeru The Damaja – Me Or The Papes (remix)
60. Blaq Poet – Watch Your Back (Rewind:Deja Screw)
59. Rass Kass – Golden Child (Golden Child VLS)
58. Nas – Represent (Illmatic)
57. Gang Starr – PLAYTAWIN (The Ownerz)
56. Jeru the Damaja – Come Clean (The Sun Rises in the East)
55. Group Home – Up Against Tha Wall (Getaway Car Mix) (Livin’ Proof)
54. Reks – Say Goodnight (Gray Hairs)
53. Kanye West, Nas, Rakim & KRS-One – Classic
52. Big Shug – Play It (Street Champ)
51. Gang Starr ft.Big Shug & Freddie Foxxx – Capture (Militia pt.3) (The Ownerz
MGMT‘s best music video features a bunch of robotic animals performing “Electric Feel”
The Rock-Afire Explosion is an animatronic robot band that played in Showbiz Pizza Place from 1980 to 1990, and in various Showbiz Pizza locations between 1990-1992 as Showbiz rebranded and the band was steadily replaced by Chuck E. Cheese characters. The show was pioneering in many respects, featuring life-sized characters capable of facial expression, some were even programmed in such a way that they could actually play simple melodies on musical instruments.
In the current age, the concept of remixing has become a controversial and problematic aspect of the creative landscape. From music to art and design, what constitutes fair game and what crosses the line is continually being questioned.
In Walking On Eggshells: Borrowing Culture in the Remix Age by Yale Law & Tech, the short 24-minute documentary explores the topic through the insights of different creatives and the impact of intellectual property laws in suppressing creative production.
Walking On Eggshells: Borrowing Culture in the Remix Age (PART 1/3)
Walking On Eggshells: Borrowing Culture in the Remix Age (PART 2/3)
Walking On Eggshells: Borrowing Culture in the Remix Age (PART 3/3)
Brazilian Girls’ lead singer Sabina Sciubba provides provocative lyrics on “Pussy”, a stoner reggae song that praises the aphrodisiac qualities of ganja and vagina.
Brazilian Girls – Pussy (Live Performance in New York City 2005)
Carlos Santana on LSD and performing at Woodstock
We got to Woodstock at eleven in the morning. We’d heard it was a disaster area. They flew us in on a helicopter. We hung around with Jerry Garcia and we found out that we didn’t have to go on until eight at night. They told us just to cool out and take it easy. One thing led to another. I wanted to take some mescaline. Just at the point that I was peaking, this guy came over and said, “Look, if you don’t go on right now, you guys are not going to play.” I went out there and I saw this ocean as far as I could see. An ocean of flesh and hair and teeth and hands. I just played. I prayed that the Lord would keep me in tune and in time. I had played loaded before, but not to that big of a crowd. Because it was like plugging into a whole bunch of hearts — and all those people at the same time. But we managed. It was incredible. I’ll never forget the way the music sounded, bouncing up against a field of bodies. For the band as a whole, it was great.”
“I’m not a loud person,” Jhené Aiko says, explaining the retreat from the bubblegum of her youth. But despite a concerted effort to mellow out, much of her debut mixtape Sailing Souls is playful and attention grabbing: jazzy songs, riffs on weed and told-you-so chants, all of which seem to be part of Aiko’s day-to-day life.
No stems, no sticks, no seeds its just you and me
On this cloud and we don’t ever have to come down now
We are so faded going to places beyond the sun
If I had it my way
I’d roll out of bed
Say bout 2:30 mid day
Hit the blunt then hit you up to come over to my place
You show up right away
We make love and then we fuck
And then you give me my space
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Ratatat’s album Classics catches an eclectic buzz with hand percussion, organ, cello and other bits and pieces. Rhythm is at the fore, and Loud Pipes is an example of the warm analog melodies interwoven with beats that just wanna rock.
