Song: Strange Fruit
Year: 1998
Album: Soul Survivor
Continuing the Pete Rock and Sticky Fingaz collaboration from my last post, here is another jewel. Pete Rock assembled a diverse and interesting cast for this haunting beat: Tragedy Khadafi, Cappadonna and Sticky Fingaz (sounds great here).
Artist: Lord Finesse
Song: Actual Facts
Year: 1995
Album: The Awakening (Hidden Bonus Track)
Three years earlier, Lord Finesse assembled an All-Star team on a similar beat: Sadat X, Large Professor and Grand Puba.
Artist: Royce Da 5'9"
Song: Shake This
Year: 2009
Album: Street Hop
There is some good music in the David Axelrod song outside of the piano samples and Royce Da 5'9" took advantage of that.
Artist: David Axelrod
Song: The Smile
Year: 1968
Album: Song Of Innocence
David Axelrod is responsible for some of the greatest Hiphop samples. I also admire him for the concepts he brings to his albums (i.e. religion, environmentalism, etc.). Pete Rock used two samples: The two note piano sample located at 3:08 and the other piano at 3:13. Lord Finesse used the 2-bar loop starting at 3:07 and added to that foundation. Royce Da 5'9" used 4 samples. The first is for his chorus, it appears at the 1:16 mark, but he also uses the note at 1:27 to start subsequent loops. The verse uses three samples as it builds, located at 2:01, 2:09 and 2:19.
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