May 19, 2008 – 9:25 pm
Here’s a sample set you probably weren’t expecting. Yeah, we try to keep it fresh around here. The classic hip hop sample sets are just what they are… classic. However, it’s nice to showcase those albums that didn’t really get their shine when they were released and probably deserve a little more [...]
May 19, 2008 – 10:33 am
Remember when MTV used to play videos? Well, now you have to catch the latest videos online, unless you have a premium cable subscription. I try not to make a habit of posting videos on the site, unless they’re worth of a post of course. Well, these two videos I got directly [...]
May 17, 2008 – 4:35 pm
My man, John Q from Lyrics To Go, is back in the sample game! He hit me up and wanted to share this Black Moon set that he has been working on. Big props to John Q for puttin’ this one together!
Released on October 19, 1993, Enta Da Stage is the debut album from [...]
May 17, 2008 – 11:27 am
Isley Brothers: “Voyage To Atlantis”
From Go For Your Guns (1977)
Snoop Dogg: “Press Play”
From Ego Trippin’ (2008)
Produced by DJ Quik
Big Boi: “Royal Flush”
From Sir Lucious Left Foot (2008)
Produced by Rick Walker & John Ward of Royal Flush Ent.
I was sittin’ around last night thinking we hadn’t done one of these in a while. [...]
May 16, 2008 – 2:09 pm
New track from Fokis, off his upcoming album Road To Riches, Vol 1. We previously gave you “Pandemonium (feat Joel Ortiz)“, the lead single from Road. You all need to check this dude out; for real!
Fokis recently did an interview with BeatDynasty.com. Read up on that to get a better look into [...]
May 16, 2008 – 1:52 pm
My man Tudakay has been workin’ hard in the studio on his album, Dollar Menu, due to drop this year. We got two new tracks, that should be on the album, straight from Tudakay himself. Check dude out; his style is sick!
Download “So Cold”
Download “Soulfood Sunday”
Tudakay’s MySpace Page
Previous post… Walking Contradiction (Remix with [...]
May 15, 2008 – 8:12 pm
I haven’t been diggin’ much this week, but I know what you all come here for and I can’t let the week go without droppin’ a sample set. We’re keepin’ it old school and goin’ back to Biz Markie’s debut album, Goin’ Off. Released back in 1988, Goin’ Off introduced Biz Markie to [...]
May 14, 2008 – 8:33 pm
Why all the hostility towards bloggers lately? I don’t know the full story behind this and I don’t want to jump to any conclusions, but apparently Pete Rock commented recently on fellow blogger, Dan Love, and his Pete Rock Breaks & Beats Mix.
You can read the accusations here at Ohword.
Next thing you know, Dr. [...]
May 14, 2008 – 7:58 pm
I’m still going through the loads of music I got in my email and Small Professor hit me up saying, “check out my new remix project.” You may remember Small Professor from his American Gangster remix project he put out called Crooklyn Gangster. If you don’t remember, make sure you check [...]
May 14, 2008 – 9:51 am
For those of you that slept on last year’s Dedication from Rashid Hadee and for those that didn’t, Rashid dropped a new mixtape yesterday that is pure fi-yah!
Hosted by Rapper Big Pooh of Little Brother and mixed by Cosm Rocks, A Change Gon’ Come has a few cuts from Dedication, some new tracks, and some [...]
May 13, 2008 – 9:16 pm
Man, I’m droppin’ some gems on you all tonight! I think a lot of you all are really gonna like this next album. Trav Williams, reppin’ Ft Lauderdale out of Athens, GA, just dropped his debut album, The Trickle Down, and yes it’s pure heat!
Trav Williams has worked on various projects prior to [...]
May 13, 2008 – 8:53 pm
I finally had a little time tonight to go through the loads of music I receive in my email everyday. I try to get through them all, but my email gets so flooded that I sometimes loose links and sometimes I download stuff and forget who sent it to me. So right off, [...]
May 13, 2008 – 8:15 pm
Brand new track right here, from my man K-Hill, called “Keep Comin”!
This is off of K-Hill’s new mixtape, The Return of Monroe Hutchins due out sometime in June. The track features Shabamm Sahdeeq, Supastition, Torae, Tiffany Paige, and DJ Flash… whew!
Download Now
K-Hill’s MySpace Page
Shabamm Sahdeeq’s MySpace Page
Supastition’s MySpace Page
Torae’s MySpace Page
Tiffany Paige’s MySpace Page
May 13, 2008 – 7:45 am
Just got wind of this over at the Okayplayer.com boards…
Phonte has teamed up with DJ Brainchild for a weekly podcast called Gordon Gartrell Radio. Below is episode one. It’s not new music from Tay, but more of an outlet for him to clown around and share his love of great music. We all know Phonte [...]
May 12, 2008 – 9:49 pm
Breathe in… now breathe out. How do you feel? Refreshed? Rejuvenated? If so, that’s exactly how you’ll feel upon first listen of the sophomore release from Kidz In The Hall, The In Crowd. I’m not gonna get all cliché and say that this album is a breath of fresh air. How many [...]
May 11, 2008 – 1:32 pm
Another Sunday, another Gang Starr sample set. This time, we’re taking it back to their debut album, No More Mr. Nice Guy. Released in 1989, this album wasn’t the most successful for DJ Premier and Guru, but it was still hot nonetheless. In 2003, No More Mr. Nice Guy was re-issued with [...]
May 10, 2008 – 1:22 pm
You asked, and we deliver! I know Thomas has been working on a few Mobb Deep sample sets for quite some time. The sample credits have just been really hard to come by. When someone on the blog here requested the samples from Mobb Deep’s The Infamous, Thomas stayed up all night [...]
May 10, 2008 – 1:15 pm
Craig Lindsey, staff writer for The News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina, hit me up last week to pick my brain on Kanye West’s Glow In The Dark Tour with Lupe Fiasco and N.E.R.D. Unfortunately, I haven’t seen the show. Ironically enough, the night Craig interviewed me, they were playing here in Miami!
At [...]
May 10, 2008 – 12:28 pm
When Phonte decided to do a solo project with Nicolay back in 2004, Rapper Big Pooh said, “I’m gonna do my own thang too.” 2005’s Sleepers is Big Pooh’s solo debut, a project he worked on outside of Little Brother (although 9th Wonder produced almost half of the album). The other half was [...]
May 10, 2008 – 10:10 am
While diggin’ around on the web last night, my man Thomas came across something interesting over at the-breaks.com. A digger by the name of SubBeetCoop claims that Dr. Dre sampled George Michael’s “Careless Whisper” for the 50 Cent hit “In Da Club”. Personally, I don’t hear it. However, SubBeeCoop posted this on the-breaks [...]
