This is definitely one of my favorite songs. Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Common… it would be idiotic not to like it. Hi-Tek may have produced this version of the song, but Pete Rock got the remix with Black Thought.
This is really just a fan post. I hit this site almost every day and download nearly everything. For weeks I have been meaning to say thanks and today’s posting finally pushed me to do it.
This song is largely responsible for pulling me back into hiphop over the last few years. I come from improvisational rock roots and had kind of tuned out hiphop - my foolish mistake - after a long stretch of PE obsession in the early 90’s. I kept hearing about the Roots at the Wetlands and some crazy dude called Mos Def that could freestyle about politics and social reality til the crack of dawn. Finally I tracked down Black Star and Black on Both Sides and since that time I have listened to hiphop every day, and almost nothing else except jazz in the 1960’s Miles/Coltrane/Monk modes and the occasional 70’s deep funk cut.
So thanks, Nation. I rely on sites like yours to complete my ongoing hiphop education, which I expect to take the rest of my life. One of the greatest joys I have is hearing a great track for the first time - it puts a huge stupid grin on my face - and that happens to me almost every day now.
all the primo you posted last week makes me think - in the jazz context - to ask if you know the albums/project Buckshot LeFonque that he did with Branford Marsalis? The second album was real weak but the first had a few unbelievable tracks on it. Usually jazz/hiphop crossover stuff does not work for me - it either equals hiphop with weak beats, or jazz without swing - but that was an exception.
Premier sadly didn’t tour with the live band, but they had another turntablist (whose name I have sadly lost) who killed. He went head to head with some of the greatest jazz players of the day in old school cutting sessions and stood tall - trading solos with Branford is no joke, man, that dude has a serious killer instinct (though the whole point really was to show that hiphop was/is Serious Music on a par with jazz).
“Breakfast @ Denny’s” - referring to the incident when some african american secret service agents were refused service at said greasy ass roach palace.
not the best track from the disk but not bad and the only one I have here. and kind of a weak sounding rip of it too now that I listen closely, I need to get the AACs. I’ll post 2 or 3 more tomorrow.
August 8, 2007 at 2:00 pm
This is really just a fan post. I hit this site almost every day and download nearly everything. For weeks I have been meaning to say thanks and today’s posting finally pushed me to do it.
This song is largely responsible for pulling me back into hiphop over the last few years. I come from improvisational rock roots and had kind of tuned out hiphop - my foolish mistake - after a long stretch of PE obsession in the early 90’s. I kept hearing about the Roots at the Wetlands and some crazy dude called Mos Def that could freestyle about politics and social reality til the crack of dawn. Finally I tracked down Black Star and Black on Both Sides and since that time I have listened to hiphop every day, and almost nothing else except jazz in the 1960’s Miles/Coltrane/Monk modes and the occasional 70’s deep funk cut.
So thanks, Nation. I rely on sites like yours to complete my ongoing hiphop education, which I expect to take the rest of my life. One of the greatest joys I have is hearing a great track for the first time - it puts a huge stupid grin on my face - and that happens to me almost every day now.
August 8, 2007 at 2:21 pm
man that means alot to a student like me… respect
we might need to build on that jazz tip
August 8, 2007 at 6:29 pm
all the primo you posted last week makes me think - in the jazz context - to ask if you know the albums/project Buckshot LeFonque that he did with Branford Marsalis? The second album was real weak but the first had a few unbelievable tracks on it. Usually jazz/hiphop crossover stuff does not work for me - it either equals hiphop with weak beats, or jazz without swing - but that was an exception.
Premier sadly didn’t tour with the live band, but they had another turntablist (whose name I have sadly lost) who killed. He went head to head with some of the greatest jazz players of the day in old school cutting sessions and stood tall - trading solos with Branford is no joke, man, that dude has a serious killer instinct (though the whole point really was to show that hiphop was/is Serious Music on a par with jazz).
August 8, 2007 at 6:47 pm
actually i had no clue DJ Premier did that shit until i was “researching” for the posts i made last week
i wouldn’t mind hearing it since i recently woke up and realised Premo is years ahead of all these beatmakers
August 8, 2007 at 7:12 pm
“Breakfast @ Denny’s” - referring to the incident when some african american secret service agents were refused service at said greasy ass roach palace.
not the best track from the disk but not bad and the only one I have here. and kind of a weak sounding rip of it too now that I listen closely, I need to get the AACs. I’ll post 2 or 3 more tomorrow.
not bad for 1994, really
August 8, 2007 at 10:51 pm
this is definitely up there as one of the best all time songs ever
August 29, 2007 at 2:03 pm
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