Hip-hop at its best is about truth-telling. It doesn’t get any realer than “They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)” by Pete Rock and CL Smooth.
Filed in Emotion, Music, Sampling
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Also tagged cl smooth, digging the crates, hip-hop, jazz, jefferson airplane, memes, pete rock, Sampling, saxophone, tony scott
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This song represents a lot of firsts for Michael Jackson. It was the first single from Off The Wall, and the first recording MJ made that he had complete creative control over. Many of his hits were written by Quincy Jones or Rod Temperton or the guys from Toto, but Michael wrote this one himself. [...]
Filed in Dance, Key Musicians, Music
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Also tagged beyonce, dance, disco, drumming, harmony, hip-hop, jay-z, mase, Math, michael jackson, mixolydian, Music Theory, pop, public enemy, Sampling, seventies, tritones
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This post isn’t about Obama. I love Obama. I’m talking about a classic breakbeat, the opening few seconds of “Impeach The President” by the Honey Drippers, and the president in question is Nixon.
Filed in Composition, Copyright and Authorship, Music, Sampling
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Also tagged big daddy kane, biz markie, de la soul, digable planets, digging the crates, drumming, eric b & rakim, funk, hip-hop, honey drippers, mick jagger, nas, nice & smooth, notorious big, Sampling, soul, wu-tang
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