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Raekwon

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owy76XdBtWE

Anybody got an idea who produced this? The scratches sound like Premos work but the rest of the track sounds nothing like him.

That track was self produced by The Pharcyde for the Street Fighter movie soundtrack. It was right after J-Swift left the group and before they hooked up with J-Dilla. The scratches are courtesy of Delicious Vinyl's resident DJ M.Walk.

mufcboy1999

Just saw on my twitter feed that jay z was arrested last night outside a club in manhattan with 3 others, source CNN that's all I know.

Jimmy Iovine

mufcboy1999 wrote: »

Just saw on my twitter feed that jay z was arrested last night outside a club in manhattan with 3 others, source CNN that's all I know.

That isn't CNN's Twitter account. If you check the link beside the original tweet you'll find that it's a fake.

Bobby Baccala

Raekwon wrote: »

That track was self produced by The Pharcyde for the Street Fighter movie soundtrack. It was right after J-Swift left the group and before they hooked up with J-Dilla. The scratches are courtesy of Delicious Vinyl's resident DJ M.Walk.

Thanks very much man, you're a gent. Whenever i hear a beat i like i have to find out the producer, same with when i hear a sample i like, i have to go listen to the original song, might sound a bit strange but sure fúck it

mufcboy1999

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

That isn't CNN's Twitter account. If you check the link beside the original tweet you'll find that it's a fake.

ye i didnt have the time to check out the link at the time, i only saw it from being re-tweeted by one of the lads i follow. cheers

PrettyBoy

Slim The Mobster (Dr. Dre's current artist/ghost writer) goes in on 50 Cent on Twitter, accuses him of working with police among other things..

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.20778/title.slim-the-mobster-blasts-50-cent-calls-him-gay-accuses-him-of-working-with-the-feds

Talib Fiasco

Apparently Jay Electronica ghostwrote Nas' album Untitled/N**ger. Honestly I find this incredibly hard to believe. Nas of all people? A guy who has ghost wrote for so many well known artists. And considering Jay Elect has failed to release new material in I dunno how long and after he was a target of strong well supported claims that he stole lyrics and used ghostwriters. Here's an article. There's plenty going around. This one has most detail.

http://www.rappersiknow.com/2012/08/13/nas-lost-ghostwriters/

mufcboy1999

TheComeUp wrote: »

Apparently Jay Electronica ghostwrote Nas' album Untitled/N**ger. Honestly I find this incredibly hard to believe. Nas of all people? A guy who has ghost wrote for so many well known artists. And considering Jay Elect has failed to release new material in I dunno how long and after he was a target of strong well supported claims that he stole lyrics and used ghostwriters. Here's an article. There's plenty going around. This one has most detail.

http://www.rappersiknow.com/2012/08/13/nas-lost-ghostwriters/

I remember hearing rumours of this before, if it's true that nas has ghostwriters it would explain the rubbish he's put out over the last ten years bar distant relatives and his latest album.

Jimmy Iovine

TheComeUp wrote: »

Apparently Jay Electronica ghostwrote Nas' album Untitled/N**ger. Honestly I find this incredibly hard to believe. Nas of all people? A guy who has ghost wrote for so many well known artists. And considering Jay Elect has failed to release new material in I dunno how long and after he was a target of strong well supported claims that he stole lyrics and used ghostwriters. Here's an article. There's plenty going around. This one has most detail.

http://www.rappersiknow.com/2012/08/13/nas-lost-ghostwriters/

Interesting. I'll have to give a listen back to it later on.

I know Jay produced the first track, "Queens Get The Money", and he was supposed to produce the whole album but for some reason or another he never got around to it. It's possible that he wrote a few tracks instead. I do find it hard to believe though.

Nas was asked about ghost writing in an interview a few days ago and he had this to say:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_jZpYojacA

He talks about missing out on the sample that Biggie used for "Juicy". It'd have been interesting to hear Nas on that but it was made for Biggie. Listening to the original now I can't imagine any other rapper on that beat.

Jimmy Iovine

Jay Elec just wrote this up on the Twitter:

ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTRONICA ‏@JayElectronica
Nas is one of the Greatest Ever. never has and never will need a ghostwriter. that man’s pen and legacy is without question.

Boom_Bap

Stic.man of Dead Pres was also involved in the ghostwriting of the untitled album. He probably named it as well

mufcboy1999

Theres no smoke without fire, I honestly think this has to have stemmed from something because i doubt anyone would make this up to tarnish the legacy of one of hip hops best lryicists. This is the second time this has come up , i remember hearing similar rumours around the time of the untitled album.

Jimmy Iovine

Anyone know if there is a video floating around of the recording session that Freddie Gibbs and Statik Selektah did for their EP, "Lord Giveth, Lord Taketh Away"? They broadcast the session live on U Stream as Gibbs was in the booth apparently. I've tried looking but can't find anything.

Anyone else know of it's whereabouts?

Dublin Red Devil

I pulled out an old PS3 game yesterday. NBA Live 08

Came accros a my fav song of the game sound track that I hadn't heard for years.

Here it is. What do you guys think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdIHfyR6lm4

Da Shins Kelly

mufcboy1999 wrote: »

Theres no smoke without fire, I honestly think this has to have stemmed from something because i doubt anyone would make this up to tarnish the legacy of one of hip hops best lryicists. This is the second time this has come up , i remember hearing similar rumours around the time of the untitled album.

I wouldn't be too surprised to be honest.

Boom_Bap

Dublin Red Devil wrote: »

I pulled out an old PS3 game yesterday. NBA Live 08

Came accros a my fav song of the game sound track that I hadn't heard for years.

Here it is. What do you guys think?

i've been recently catching up on Mr. J. Mederios and have been really enjoying alot of his songs. this one is also great.
Love the production from Ohmega Watts, I must bust out 'The Find' by Ohmega Watts again, excellent album.

Andy_rse

Dublin Red Devil wrote: »

I pulled out an old PS3 game yesterday. NBA Live 08

Came accros a my fav song of the game sound track that I hadn't heard for years.

Here it is. What do you guys think?

MR J is dope. I absolutely love that album.

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I must bust out 'The Find' by Ohmega Watts again, excellent album.

Ah, now that's an album and a half!

Jimmy Iovine

Dublin Red Devil wrote: »

I pulled out an old PS3 game yesterday. NBA Live 08

Came accros a my fav song of the game sound track that I hadn't heard for years.

Here it is. What do you guys think?

The EA Sports games are brilliant for their soundtracks. A Tiger Woods game a few years back had a Big Boi song on it. Nearly every word was edited but it was still great.

NBA '06 has a load of quality tunes on it. Chamillionaire, Bishop Lamont, Q-Tip, Jurassic 5, Lupe.

Madden '04 had The Roots, Outkast, Killer Mike and my favourite track off it was Joe Budden's "Pump It Up".

Madden '06 had Chamillionaire, Slim Thug, Pappose, Tech N9ne.

They were unreal for the rap tunes.

LUPE

Boom_Bap wrote: »

i've been recently catching up on Mr. J. Mederios and have been really enjoying alot of his songs. this one is also great.
Love the production from Ohmega Watts, I must bust out 'The Find' by Ohmega Watts again, excellent album.

Didn't know there was many Mr J. fans in this part of the world. Always do my best to support him, buy all his stuff directly from him even if I preferred the older stuff a bit more.

Jimmy Iovine

LUPE wrote: »

Didn't know there was many Mr J. fans in this part of the world. Always do my best to support him, buy all his stuff directly from him even if I preferred the older stuff a bit more.

This is Boom Bap you're talking about.

If I had a euro for every time someone mentioned a rapper that he didn't know then I'd have enough for a Mars bar and a bottle of Coke and that's it.

Boom_Bap

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

This is Boom Bap you're talking about.

If I had a euro for every time someone mentioned a rapper that he didn't know then I'd have enough for a Mars bar and a bottle of Coke and that's it.

But i dont know what a tracker mortgage is

Jimmy Iovine

Boom_Bap wrote: »

But i dont know what a tracker mortgage is

Who does. It's up there with 'how do they get the figs into the fig rolls' as one of life's great unanswered questions.

Talib Fiasco

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

This is Boom Bap you're talking about.

If I had a euro for every time someone mentioned a rapper that he didn't know then I'd have enough for a Mars bar and a bottle of Coke and that's it.

That sounds like a good idea for a thread. And the Mars bar and Coke would only sweeten the deal. I've definitely a few in mind who I've genuinely heard material from and are actually top class rappers but I think if I know them, Boom_Bap probably has their autograph....

Andy_rse

Boom Bap actually invented hip hop so he did.

Jimmy Iovine

I was listening to "Killah Hills 10304" by the GZA the other day and he finished up rapping 4 minutes into the song. The beat continues for another 70 seconds though. Does anyone know why this happens in rap songs?

It seems a bit pointless to me. The beat from that song is brilliant so I'm not complaining about that. It turns a 4 minute long song (that already has a minute and a half long skit) into a 5+ minute long one.

The only reasonable explanation that I can come up with is that the producer leaves it in there so that others can use the extra instrumental for their own songs, but that's probably miles from the truth.

Andy_rse

I don't know it there's an exact reason for it but nothing infuriates me more than a dope beat that fades out or stops completely after the last verse/hook. I love it when they let a dope beat ride out and maybe that's what the producer thinks, this to damn dope to just cut it off.

It's almost a given that my favourite beat or song on an album will be the shortest one!

Bobby Baccala

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFnMZVqInaw

Am I just simple or did people here ever notice how nearly every line has the name of a record label in it? e.g: "Tommy aint my motherfúckin boy" - Tommy boy records, or "it's like going to venus dropping a mercury" - Mercury Records.

This just set him waaaay ahead of any wu tang member as a lyricist in my eyes.

And happy 46th birthday GZA.

Boom_Bap

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

Am I just simple or did people here ever notice how nearly every line has the name of a record label in it? e.g: "Tommy aint my motherfúckin boy" - Tommy boy records, or "it's like going to venus dropping a mercury" - Mercury Records.

This just set him waaaay ahead of any wu tang member as a lyricist in my eyes.

And happy 46th birthday GZA.

The song title gives it away

GZA had some label issues before the first Wu album was released. That's pretty much the background to Labels. He was called The Genius back then, and if you havent heard is album Words from The Genius, you should stop what you are doing and listen to it.

conor.hogan.2

He is way ahead of pretty much everyone in the wu, and up there with everyone not in the wu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5lznX2PKlg

Andy_rse

I know we got 1 or 2 Wax fans in here.

He's doing a Wax Unplugged Weekly on youtube where every week he puts up a song from a recent unplugged gig he done. And if the rest are anything like this then we are in for a treat.

He put up Rosana as well.