As requested by longtime Banterite, Ms. October, here’s a week of rap tunes and the songs they sampled.
First up, let’s segue from last week’s New Orleans tribute with the following funk:
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Friday
November 8, 2024
Since 2002
"This ain't football. We do this every day."
--Earl Weaver
--Earl Weaver
ugh. can i request a week of bay area thrash metal? or indian classical hindustani/carnatic music? how about avant-garde jazz?! : )
i woke up to a tune on the radio, check it
an old church hymn behind a breakbeat record
sounded kinda funky so I pumped it
thanks alex, great way to kick it off !!
i love that meters track and it is sampled well on i'm dead.
1_ How a bout a week of CLiffor Brown?
[3] sure, i can dig a week of Clifford Brown. ya know who'd be better though?
Hank Mobley
!!!!!!!!!!
Dude, give me 7 or 8 great Hank Mobley cuts to choose from and you are on.
Awesomo!! I wondered where that came from. I loved Scarface's first solo as well; it's been said that this album was the blueprint for other artists who followed that variation of rap, including and most notably Biggie. In deference to Thelarmis tho, I would suggest a lighter touch of that sample; Heavy D's album version of "Girls They Love Me" (which I can't seem to find right now...)
I'm down with Hank Mobley and Clifford Brown. Do some spots with Clifford and Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers too...
Hank Mobley, hard-bop master!
Jazz Messenger classics also a treat.
A more obscure, but appropriate choice for 2010, is South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim. He, like so many S.African artists, lived in exile for years during apartheid. He's now back in SA, in his mid-70s. One of the great pianists in jazz, joyous, profound and beautiful. I hope he's involved somehow in the World Cup celebrations this summer.