Crate Diggin': Hip Hop 101 (Pete Rock & CL Smooth)

thrILL! · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 16712 Location: Los Angeles, CA

A couple weeks ago I was walking around the Gaslamp District in downtown San Diego and outside Horton Plaza (an outdoor mall) some rapper comes up trying to sell me his CD. This is not uncommon across the country and I swear it happens outside every Best Buy I ever go in. Being a producer myself, I can appreciate the grind and hustle of trying to move music this way. But with the plethora of wack music out there and every suburban kid who discovered Eminem that now fashions himself a rapper, I'm leery of the quality of music being pushed my way on the sidewalk.

I always ask them a question like who's your favorite MC or which MC's are your biggest influences or what's your favorite hip hop album of all time? 9x out of 10 I get insipid responses or bumbling and stalling that don't even answer the question much less surprise or impress me. The conversation usually ends here.

So I ask this kid who his favorite MC is and immediately he says 2pac. Not a surprise as 2pac is still popular even with kids who weren't old enough to remember the day he died much less his Zartan-esque journey as an artist. But then he proceeds to tell me that 2pac is dead in a condescending way to which he received a sarcastic response of shock and dismay akin to when Lloyd Christmas finds out that man has landed on the moon.

I ask him what his favorite 2pac track is and he says he doesn't really have a favorite. I don't understand this bcuz I have favorite songs for all my favorite artists. He asks me what my favorite 2pac song is and I tell him "Definition of a Thug N!**@". He says he's never heard of it and I tell him it was on the Poetic Justice soundtrack (which he says he's never seen) back in the mid 90's. I tell him how it's my favorite Warren G beat too. He says "Who's Warren G?" Sigh. I tell him he's Dr. Dre's half-brother and had that huge hit "Regulate" with Nate Dogg. He says he's never heard of it. I kept it movin' obviously.

Never heard of Warren G or "Regulate" and you're from SoCal? This guy was at least 19 and maybe 25 at the oldest so yes he's young. My question is who are his siblings and older relatives and how has he not heard this from them? How do these kids barely know Chronic 2001 but have never heard The Chronic? Most young fans of 2pac think 2pacalypse Now is his worst album. They've never listened to Strictly For... It's cool if they like the more recent albums more than the older, but as a huge fan of his work, don't you seek out all of his material? Is this type of fandom obsolete nowadays? This is exactly what Willink was talking about in the other hip hop thread. Not talking

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iPwn · Joined: 10 Oct 2009 Posts: 36209 Location: Stand United

Even if I don't post much in here, I really appreciate you two dropping all of the stuff in here.

I actually have something great to drop in here later today if I remember to upload it.
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iPwn · Joined: 10 Oct 2009 Posts: 36209 Location: Stand United

Wow, it uploaded a lot faster than I ever expected it to.

So I will just drop this here and let anybody who wants to enjoy.

18 unreleased beat tapes from J Dilla; 439 total beats.

Some of them have rappers going on top of them, some are just purely beats.

Just a heads up, the 12th tape is in there twice.
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PHillysPHinest2 · Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 10:18 am Post subject:

My friend made this beat not too long ago, just in a couple days figuring out how to sample. He didn't change too much of the original, but it came out sounding dope. What do you think? Comments? Criticism?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfBpk9Yt-MA

Samples Love Unlimited's High Steppin Hip Dressin' Fella. Which has been used in numerous Hippity Hop songs including the remix of Edgar Allen Floe's song I see All.
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thrILL! · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 16712 Location: Los Angeles, CA

thrILL! · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 16712 Location: Los Angeles, CA

PHillysPHinest2 · Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 10:08 am Post subject:

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thrILL! · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 16712 Location: Los Angeles, CA

It's gonna take me forever to go thru all those Dilla beats. Looking fwd to it.

I saw Miilkbone live in Cleveland back in like '96 I think. He opened up for Redman, Brand Nubian, and Pete Rock & CL Smooth (who didn't show bcuz they had just broken up). I got a chance to polly with Sadat X which was cool. It was a great show. That "Keep It Real" beat is still a heavy rotation track for freestyles. I have the instrumental if anyone wants me to post it.
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PurpleMugen · Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:41 pm Post subject:

Just dropping by to leave one of my favorite tracks. Ridiculous work on the boards by the Alchemist and two of my favorite emcees lacing it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9HuGts2_SQ
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thrILL! · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 16712 Location: Los Angeles, CA

PurpleMugen · Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:52 pm Post subject: