Buck O’Neil meets Jay Dee. A little something we threw together a few years ago:

[Photo Via: Haphazardous]

Bop.

[Photo Credit: Andrew Gallo]

I remember walking into The Sound Library, a boutique record shop in the east village in the late Nineties and hearing something special. It was a short cut off a white label Lord Finesse promo. Rare. Finesse chopped-up and looped a famous Marvin Gaye record on an SP-1200. Man, it was cool. I eventually got a copy of the beat and when I passed it along to my pal Alan, he dumped it in Pro Tools and cleaned it up.

Years later, I got married and made a mix for The Wife. Little Miss Sunshine was and is one of her favorite movies so Alan and I cut up dialogue by Alan Arkin and fit it over the Finesse-Marvin Gaye beat.

Enjoy.

And smile: it won’t mess up your hair.

Uncle L.

So enchanting.

“Please Listen To My Demo”–EPMD

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“Long Island Degrees”–De La Soul

[Photo Via: Film is God]

Sweatin’.

[Photo Credit: Joakim Eskildsen]

Let’s Get Stoopit with my man, Ill Chemist.

Via Kottke, The Beastles.

“Youthful Expression”–Tribe

[Photo Via: The Absolute Best Photography]

Speaking of Tip…Funski.

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It’s hotter n July so let’s cool out with some classic De La:

Who’s Skatin’ Promo

A Roller Skating Jam Named ”Saturdays”

What Yo Life Can Truly Be

A Roller Skating Jam Named _Saturdays_ (Ladies Nite Decision)

[Photo Via: Worship the Feminine]

Coolin’.

[Painting by Dirk Dzimirsky]

De La on the Jimmy Fallon Show. 

Clap your hands now.

[Photo Credit: Onigiri-Kun]

I can’t be your lover.

Straight to the hole like my man Malik Sealy.

Fun.

“What Yo Life Can Truly Be”–De La Soul

[Photo Credit: Saint Courtney]

Phil Hughes pitched his best game of the year, Chris Stewart and Lyle Overbay hit solo home runs (Overbays was a bomb) and Mariano Rivera was the last man standing–though he didn’t earn a save–as the Yanks beat the A’s yesterday afternoon, 4-2.

Smiles all around.

Today gives another afternoon game and Game 1 of the Knicks-Pacers, which proves to be dramatic, dumb, aggravating, and other clumsy adjectives to describe hardship and pain.

But first, listen to this:

“Fallin'”–Teenaged Fan Club with De La Soul

[Photo Credit: Katherine Squler]

Nine times out of ten I used to start this way.

[Image Via Je Suis Perdu]