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Can you name the acoustic bass sample (begins @ 8 seconds) in this cut from Eric B & Rakim's 3rd album?
It is sped up from the original..Additional points for naming the bass player.
Please find the only other use of this baseline I could find in comments..Gain additional points for naming the rapper, who used the bass line sample at regular speed. Then check out the original..
Hope you have a 3 Day.
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Inspired by a post from Dave Sometime about 1986 I was in Minneapolis and fully enraptured by Hip-Hop. I was spending $100 a week on records and heading out to clubs that would play the music and generally addicted to beats. I wasn't really part of any scene just a listener and a buyer. One of the few places that actually played Hip-hop in Minneapolis was the legendary First Avenue, and it was there one Saturday night over 20 years ago, that I heard the true arrival of Hi... MORE
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...some people like their rappers for their beats, others for their flow and still others are drawn to their favorite recording artists' fashion sense (at least lately, it seems)...I've been a fan of Rakim's flow and phonetics every since I first heard him on "Eric B is President" as a teenager and while that is a great tune, I think the R really stepped up to the plate when he cut "Lyrics of Fury", it's got it all: Boomin' beats, sweet samples, the coldest cutting and...... MORE
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.... I'm sorry I left you. So, my computer crashes several weeks ago and I've waited very impatiently for it to come home. All the details will be given soon, but, first... Fellow Mogger, summer eyes, posted an embarassing music crush on her MOG and I got to thinking. I might as well let it all out for the internet world to see. Here was mine: Who could not love those shoulder pads and those dance moves. C'mon. You know you did, too. And she was so much bette... MORE
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Less a mere song than a sonic adventure, the "Seven Minutes Of Madness - Coldcut Mix" of Eric B & Rakim's seminal 1987 track Paid In Full, brought the two disparate worlds of the burgeoning Chicago influenced UK House and early beats and breaks scene, populated by the likes of Coldcut, Bomb the Bass & Simon Harris amongst others with old school hiphop, the product being this sublime insta-classic. From the moment of its release this track has been acknowledged by both samp... MORE
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Paid in Full
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Because it might be the best hip hop song ever and it takes me back to 10th grade.
and now that I'm on that old school tip:
and last but not least. Boy I miss these days....
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{Cue in......Average White Band’s "Schoolboy Crush"} ......"’Cause I grab the mic and try to say yes y’all/They try to take it, they say that I’m too small/Cool ’cause I don’t get upset/I kick a hole in the speaker, pull the plug, then I jet." They got their start when they met at WBLS in New York y'all. And now, at least half the duo is back...... Rakim (of Erik B & Rakim fame) is about to tour the U.S. Sat 08/19/06 Philadelphia, PA Penn's Landing Fri 09/01/06 Aust... MORE
