Comments on: Prodigy vs Skillz vs Rick Ross

By: Sleaze

Sleaze — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:52:41 +0000

Fuck BAWSE BTW

By: Sleaze

Sleaze — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:52:10 +0000

Prodigy all day! Skillz my dude from VA and all that. but you cant touch the emotion on the P cut.

What happened to Prodigy?

By: Napaj

Napaj — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:11:48 +0000

Justice league put it down with the beat. P put it down with da lyrics. somebody should put that together

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:14:50 +0000

RIC is right….Land of Passion is the correct sample for the Skillz song. The version of the Land of Passion I have doesn’t have vocals on it…..anyhoo…no biggie…..Cause P wins anyway.

My bad to all!

By: Fame

Fame — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:21:30 +0000

P just made the song personal which set the track off!!!…… Skills still did his dag tho…..

By: Mr. Eight Four

Mr. Eight Four — Fri, 22 May 2009 07:28:47 +0000

Kev. recheck the C-box. I dropped the dime on the HNIC Sample. You can’t feel my pain was my favorite song off the joint.

I aint d*ck ridin or nothin, just want correct props. 1

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 22 May 2009 05:30:37 +0000

Also, the Jugganots used this same Angela Bofill sample on their song called “namesake” off the album Use Your Confusion. Also, I wish producers would sample more Angela Bofill records. She made a lot of beautiful songs.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 21 May 2009 22:55:46 +0000

You could be right……the vocals sounded the same.

By: RIC

RIC — Thu, 21 May 2009 22:48:26 +0000

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the Skillz track sampling “Hubert Laws – Land of Passion”? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSugmvCYt6M

And I’ve been following your blog for quite some time Kev, keep up the good work man!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 21 May 2009 22:45:01 +0000

P’s best solo song to me is “Quiet Storm.” Even tho this is a “Mobb Deep” song….it was a P solo for his album.

By: Keenan

Keenan — Thu, 21 May 2009 22:11:37 +0000

yea it’s def p, i would even argue that “you can never feel my pain” is p’s best solo song ever

By: BC

BC — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:38:32 +0000

Rick Fucking Ross. Get the fuck out of here man.

P wins this hands down, the last great album of the 90’s if i recall right, a fucking epic album, Alchemist beats, even an unknown Just Blaze sample.

Just checked, came out Nov 2000.

but i heard many of the tracks in 99 so fuck it.

By: Vatkeezy

Vatkeezy — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:49:51 +0000

Definitely Prodigy, song is so raw and emotional, although the Skillz joint has some sick storytelling.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:39:42 +0000

@CEELOS you can get the track here. http://kevinnottingham.com/2008/07/31/hnic-original-samples/

By: CEELOS

CEELOS — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:37:17 +0000

Forget it i got it.

By: CEELOS

CEELOS — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:33:19 +0000

Thomas were can i download the angela bofil sample. Its sick just by itself.

By: CEELOS

CEELOS — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:14:37 +0000

Prodigy’s is the most heartfelt. My personal favourite the beat has so much pain.I never heard the skills track but its straight but P wins this.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:01:13 +0000

Love the personal topic of Prodigy’s song. I remember reading back when his album came out (2000) that he wanted T-Boz on the song because she has sickle cell as well.

Skillz’s joint is just an ill story…..but P for me.

By: S.2

S.2 — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:09:00 +0000

That is one of my favourite Prodigy songs. I’ll even say one of my favourite Mobb Deep songs all together. Its just raw emotion, and those lyrics really strike a chord with me. Easy vote for me.