May 31, 2008 – 10:52 am
Well, Lil’ Wayne’s highly anticipated Tha Carter III leaked yesterday. Like most readers of this blog, I’m not exactly a Li’ Wayne fan, but I am interested in hearing the album for the sake of production. By the way, you can’t download it here (we don’t do that), but if you’re too lazy to […]
May 31, 2008 – 8:53 am
Our next sample set is actually a 2-in-1. Young Jeezy’s first album, Thug Motivation, only had 4 samples listed so there was no point releasing it under its own set. So we put together the samples for Jeezy’s second album, The Inspiration, and included the samples from Thug Motivation as a bonus.
The Inspiration, […]
May 31, 2008 – 12:16 am
Here’s another one! DJ BIG TEXAS is back with another BIG TEXAS EXCLUSIVE. This time he dug in the crates for some Geto Boys samples and smacked it up, flipped it, and rubbed it down!
No further introduction needed. BIG TEXAS is an unofficial member of the This Is Hip Hop team… sort of […]
May 30, 2008 – 9:54 pm
Believe it or not, This Is Hip Hop is about to turn one year old next month. The site came online in June of last year, with my first post on June 22, 2007. To commemorate, I thought it was time to upgrade the look. The old design was great, but with […]
May 30, 2008 – 8:30 am
Curtis Mayfield: “Give Me Your Love (Love Song)”
From Superfly (1972)
Inspectah Deck: “Trouble Man”
From Uncontrolled Substance (1999)
Produced by Pete Rock
Buckshot & 9th Wonder: “Whassup With U”
From The Formula (2008)
Produced by 9th Wonder
Now that we’ve ironed out the kinks in the new site design, it’s time for another edition of “Who flipped it better?“. This time […]
May 29, 2008 – 1:23 pm
Next stop, Sweden! Stockholm stand up! This time around I want to introduce someone who is about to blow!!! Give it up for Adam Tensta. Adam Tensta (birth name: Adam Momodou Eriksson Taal) was born in 1983. He grew up as the son of a single mother and an absent, heroin-addicted father in a […]
May 29, 2008 – 8:08 am
This is an interesting concept… Ivan over at Hip-Hop Is Read has started an online petition to get two of Brooklyn’s Finest emcees to do a collaboration. I for one, would love to see a collaboration between AZ & Talib Kweli and this petition isn’t such a bad idea. In this digital age, […]
May 28, 2008 – 11:07 am
This project, produced by Omer Saar from UniverSOUL Productions, has a lot of promise! I strongly urge you to head on over to his site and read the full story behind this album. Basically what Omer did was produce an album soley based on Al Green samples. The result turned out […]
May 27, 2008 – 1:46 pm
Two of this site’s top articles to this day are Kanye West: The Samples, Part 1 and Kanye West: The Samples, Part 2. Well you can scrap those links and bookmark this post right here. Those two posts are consistently in this blog’s top ten daily and the majority of my referrers […]
May 27, 2008 – 12:12 pm
For years, the sample behind the DJ Premier produced track “Nas Is Like” has been a mystery… until now. Thanks to Carsten for turning me onto this discovery. Apparently the record label Strictly Breaks is about to close up shop, but not before revealing one last sample source. Strictly Breaks member Dusty […]
May 26, 2008 – 1:23 am
After compiling the post for Jay-Z’s complete samples collection, it was only appropriate that we add a bonus sample set to the mix… the Streets Is Watching Soundtrack. So I hit Thomas up and said, “let’s do this one.” Of course he replied saying he had already started it and just about had […]
May 25, 2008 – 7:39 pm
Listen closely to his lyrics, and you can hear the tension beneath the relaxed veneer; the smiling threat beneath the invitation to merely enjoy the track. It is this artistic duplicity that makes FatRat a fan favorite… (The CASHionista, 2007)
DA COLD WAR, one of the most highly anticipated hip-hop releases of 2008 from Streetside Records […]
May 24, 2008 – 9:13 pm
For 12 weeks producers, DJs, and beatmakers from all over the world came to This Is Hip Hop for the first ever This Is Hip Hop Remix Contest. Each week, remixers had one week to produce a beat that matched the acapella that was provided in the contest. The acapellas were chosen based […]
May 24, 2008 – 10:40 am
Stanley Logan is at it again with his Musical mixtape series, mixing Jay-Z tracks and their original samples. If you’re a fan of old school samples, this mix is a must have. Stanley did a good job here. Check the intro to “Black Republican”… dope! Make sure you check Stanley’s MySpace […]
May 23, 2008 – 8:54 pm
Here’s David Banner’s brand new video off his upcoming album The Greatest Story Ever Told!
May 23, 2008 – 12:39 pm
From Billboard.com…
Kanye West, Common, Redman, Method Man and their record companies were sued yesterday (May 22) by late U.S. jazz musician Joe Farrell’s daughter, who accused them of using her father’s music without approval. The lawsuit said all the rappers used portions of Farrell’s 1974 musical composition “Upon This Rock” in three separate songs — […]
May 22, 2008 – 6:02 pm
This sample set right here is a beast; 76 samples in all! That’s why I enlisted fellow blogger/digger Bulldog to help out. Actually, this set was his idea. I wasn’t interested at first in compiling such a huge set. I figured it’d just be too time consuming. But with Bulldog’s […]
May 22, 2008 – 8:15 am
Frankie Beverly & Maze: “I Need You”
From Golden Time of Day (1978)
50 Cent: “Hustler’s Ambition”
From Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ Soundtrack (2005)
Produced by B-Money
Young Jeezy: “Talk To Em”
From Let’s Get It (Thug Motivation 101) (2005)
Produced by Frank Nitti
Who flipped it better?
May 21, 2008 – 6:31 pm
Most of the interviews on this site are usually with artists/producers either in the biz or coming up in the biz. This one here is a little bit different, but equally entertaining. For the past few months, myself, Thomas, Ivan, Goon, John Q, Bulldog, and others have been digging for samples used in […]
May 20, 2008 – 2:03 pm
Thanks to my blogger-in-crime Goon, who recently posted up the samples to Jay’s Life & Times of S. Carter and Kingdom Come, we now have the complete Jay-Z sample discography available between Goon’s site, Hip-Hop Is Read and us right here. So if you’re looking for Jay-Z original samples, this is the post to […]
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