Song: F.T. (The Anthem)
Year: 2009
Album: Purple Pain Mixtape
F.T. AKA Fuc That (Street Smartz) is the Brooklyn Beast. Black Milk created a mixtape of beats using Prince samples and F.T. rhymed over those tracks. This one is my favourite but there are other great songs as well.
Artist: Rapper Big Pooh
Song: When I'm Done
Year: 2010
Album: The Purple Tape
Phonte might technically be the better Emcee from Little Brother but Rapper Big Pooh has grown on me over the years to become the one I'm following closely. After F.T. introduced me to these beats, I was really excited to learn that Rapper Big Pooh blessed them again.
Artist: Black Milk
Song: Track 9
Year: 2008
Album: Music From The Color Purple (Beat Sampler)
When everyone was listening to Thriller by Michael Jackson, I was more into Purple Rain by Prince. I think that Black Milk is a genius for chopping up Prince's sounds and making a whole album of instrumentals inspired by the Purple One. F.T. and Rapper Big Pooh did justice to this effort. Press play and get your freestyle on.
Artist: Prince And The Revolution
Song: The Beautiful Ones
Year: 1984
Album: Purple Rain
Since Black Milk reveals the Prince sample at the end of each track, it wasn't too hard for anyone to figure this out, but he put some work into the construction of this beat. All three Hip Hop tracks use the same 4-bar loop composed of the following pieces. At around 3:24, Prince sings "Do you want him?" and the loop starts with the word "him" and continues until Prince sings "or do you want me?" The "or do you want" is replaced by part of the loop from bar 1 and bar 2 begins with the word "me" (3:28). After Prince sings "cause I want you" just before 3:34, there are three guitar notes. Note 3, then note 1, then note 2 conclude the second bar. The third and fourth bars are the same as the first two except at the end of the fourth bar when the order of the guitar notes becomes 2, 3 and 1.
