04.Mar.2009 Original Recipe #6: Lucifer
I’m from the murda capital, where we murda for capital.
Download: I Chase the Devil – Max Romeo
25.Feb.2009 Original Recipe #5: It Was A Good Day
Who’s that I hear creepin’?
Download: Footsteps in the Dark – The Isley Brothers
19.Feb.2009 Original Recipe #4: Hearltess
This week, I tackle Kanye’s Heartless, form his most recent album, 808’s & Heartbreak. He sampled a song by the Alan Parsons Project, titled Ammonia Avenue. The sample starts at 2:32.
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I’ll try and find and mp3 for you guys as soon as I can.
11.Feb.2009 Original Recipe #3: Starz
In honor of the memory of one of the illest producers to ever do it, here I have the original song that Dilla sampled for Starz, off of Champion Sound. As a bonus, I’ll throw up the track he sampled to make Runnin’ for The Pharcyde. RIP Dilla. Gone, but certainly not forgotten.
Download: The Stars [...]
05.Feb.2009 Original Recipe #2: Crazy
Here I have the sample for a song that took 2006 by storm. You couldn’t turn on the radio without hearing this track.
Musically, Crazy was inspired by film scores of spaghetti Westerns, in particular by the works of Ennio Morricone, who is best known as the composer of Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy. The song [...]
28.Jan.2009 Original Recipe #1: A Milli
Starting now, about every week I’m gonna hook you guys up with the original track that was sampled for some of hip-hop’s biggest beats. To start it off right, I have the titan A Milli, which samples a rare remix of Tribe’s I Left My Wallet In El Segundo. The sample starts at at about [...]
