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Kevin Casey’s Sample Saturday – Roy Ayers et Nas & DMX

You are looking at the man himself Roy Ayers.  In a time frame of almost 50 years (dating up until the present), Ayers has been releasing and working on projects spanning almost every genre of music.  The handful of Roy Ayers sampled beats I have made in my day never got placed onto albums, but [...]

Kevin Casey’s Sample Saturday – B.T. Express et DMX

B.T. Express was among a group of classic funk and soul artists used to create DMX’s debut album It’s Dark and Hell is Hot, somewhat of a rap masterpiece.  Listening through beginning to end you hear aggressive beats matched with vivid accounts of street life in Yonkers, New York.  The raw nature of the album both in sound [...]

Kevin Casey Music Presents Live From New York (1994-2001)

Man look at these suckers. I ain’t no rapper, I’m a hustler. It just so happens I know how to rap.” In the beginning Hip Hop was about b-boying, djing, graffiti and emceeing. The drug game of the late 1980′s changed the ghetto so, it was only natural that it would change the music as [...]