Song: Formation
Year: 1999
Album: Ecology
Canadian content! Mathematik is the point guard of my Toronto Hip Hop All-Star team. Wio-K is the shooting guard. Tona is the small forward. Kardinal Offishall is the power forward. Of course, Maestro Fresh-Wes is the Center. Saukrates is the sixth man. If you have a better team, please share in the comments.
Artist: 2Pac
Song: Lord Knows
Year: 1995
Album: Me Against The World
Tupac Shakur is an Emcee I appreciate more as I get older. If you put 2Pac and Biggie in the "Top 5 Dead or Alive", a lot of people won't argue. If you put Nas and Jay-Z in the top 5, a lot of people won't argue. Who gets the last spot? Rakim is always mentioned as deserving of a top 5 spot. That list would clog the top 5 and prevent anyone entry for a long time. Jadakiss is supposed to be putting an album out soon called "Top 5, Dead Or Alive" - so who is he going to push off this list?
Artist: K.M.D.
Song: Sorcerers
Year: 2009
Album: Metal Fingerz Doom Presents Unexpected Guests
This sounds nothing like the group who gave us"Peachfuzz" and "Sweet Premium Wine", but Zev Love X is on there.
Artist: The Blackbyrds
Song: All I Ask
Year: 1975
Album: City Life
Rest in Peace to Donald Byrd who passed away last month. The Blackbyrds were his group of Howard University students who went on to become successful.
Mathmatik used the 2-bar loop starting at 1:41. 2Pac used the same 2-bar loop.
K.M.D. made the best use of the sample. They start the song with the sample from 1:40. The rest of the song used 4 bars starting from 1:41. They play the first bar, then loop the second and third together repeatedly and occasionally end it with the fourth bar.
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