Ice Cube ~ “It Was a Good Day” Today was a good day. Samples Isley Brothers ~ “Footsteps in the Dark“ The Moments ~ “Come On Sexy Mama“ Parliament ~ “Sir Nose D’Voidoffunk (Pay Attention- B3M)“ Lyrics Just waking up in the morning gotta thank God I don’t know but today seems kinda odd No [...]
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Ludacris ~ “Rollout (My Business)” circa 2001. Beats by Timbaland, words by Ludacris. Now that’s ol school: “Playstation 2 up in the ride…” Samples Yay Boy ~ “Africando“ Ice Cube ~ “No Vaseline“ Lyrics Roll out! [repeat 6x] Roll out! Roll out! Roll out! Roll out! [Chorus - "roll out!" in background] I got my [...]
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Scarface ~ “Smile” circa 1997 Lyrics [Intro: 2Pac] There’s gon’ be some stuff you gon’ see that’s gon’ make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullsh*t. [...]
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Parliament ~ “Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)” So I figured I should bring in something upbeat for New Years, and why not drop a clip from 1976 by one of the groups that is often sampled by everyone else! Lyrics Tear the roof off, we’re gonna tear the roof off [...]
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Run DMC ~ “Christmas In Hollis” Nothing like spreading a little holiday cheer via Run DMC! Happy Holidays Y’all!!! Samples Clarence Carter ~ “Back Door Santa“ Lyrics Run: It was December 24th on Hollis Ave in the dark When I seen a man chilling with his dog in the park I approached very slowly with [...]
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Jay-Z ~ “Big Pimpin’” Big Pimpin’ from back in 2000. I saw Jay-Z and Kanye on the Watch the Throne show at the Staples Center on Monday. Those guys have a big catalog of hits. Samples Baligh Hamdi ~ “Khosara“ Lyrics Uhh, uh uh uh It’s big pimpin baby, It’s big pimpin, spendin G’s Feel [...]
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Major Lazer ~ “Original Don” Also check the Crookers remix:
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Wreckx-n-Effect ~ “Rump Shaker” Check baby Check Baby one two three All I wanna do is… “Rump Shaker” from back in 1992. Samples: Debarge ~ “I Like It“ The Emotions ~ “Blind Alley“ Lafayette Afro Rock Band ~ “Darkest Light“ Magic Disco Machine ~ “Scratchin’“ Manzel ~ “Midnight Theme“ Lyrics: Yeah.. All I wanna do [...]
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Outkast ft. Slick Rick ~ “Da Art of Storytellin” Outkast and Rick the Ruler rhyming on da track! It’s crazy to realize that this song was released over 13 years ago. Lyrics [Verse One: Big Boi] Yea.. Somebody hit me the other day, for a rendezvous Was it the bitch that fucked the Goodie, and [...]
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Fat Boys ~ “All You Can Eat” From Krush Groove to an Old School Wednesday tradition the day before Thanksgiving. Lyrics (Chorus 2x): All you can eat! (Verse 1): (Prince Markie D): $3.99 for all you can eat? Well, I’m a stuff my face to a funki beat! (Kool Rock Ski): We’re gonna walk inside, [...]
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Ol’ Dirty Bastard ~ “Got Your Money” Gotta love this ODB joint featuring Kelis and produced by The Neptunes (Pharrell & Chad Hugo) from back in ’99. ODB was born on Nov. 15th, 1968 and died of an accidental drug overdose two days short of his 36th birthday. I was lucky enough to catch ODB [...]
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KMD ~ “Peach Fuzz” So here’s the story. KMD was originally a New York based hip hop trio with a “conscious” style similar to Brand Nubian with a comedic element similar to 3rd Bass (both bands KMD performed with). The real part of the KMD story comes when they were preparing their second album, Black [...]
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The Black Keys ~ “Lonely Boy” views: 302 New song from The Black Keys, with a video of some guy doing the Carlton for 3 minutes. Sweet! Their new album, El Camino, is out Dec 6th.
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Geto Boys ~ “Mind Playing Tricks On Me” This is always one of my favorite Old School Wednesday posts. Geto Boys from back in 1991. Bushwick Bill’s verse makes this a Halloween joint, even though it wasn’t even close to Halloween… Samples Isaac Hayes ~ “Hung Up on My Baby“ Graham Central Station ~ “The [...]
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Ahmad ~ “Back In The Day” Old School joint from 1994 about reminiscing about the good ol’ days. Samples Teddy Pendergrass ~ “Love T.K.O.“ Delegation ~ “Oh Honey“ Staple Singers ~ “Let’s Do It Again“ Lyrics Back in the days when I was young I’m not a kid anymore But some days I sit and [...]
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Dilated Peoples ~ “Work The Angles” Dilated Peoples from 2000. Samples Mahavishnu Orchestra ~ “Resolution“ Joseph Koo and Wang Fu Ling ~ “The Big Boss“ Lyrics Hook: I work the angles sharp and precise Dilated Peoples so you better build twice “Act like ya know, not now but right now” Dilated Peoples “Skills I possess” [...]
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Phantogram ~ “Don’t Move”(mp3 via herre) Phantogram is back with a new EP, Nightlife, set to drop Nov 1st. Hopefully the other 5 tracks are as cool as “Don’t Move”. The duo will also be playing the Music Box on November 4th!
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