When All Eyez on Me came out in 1996, I was in middle school, and was still getting familiar with hip hop as a genre.  For years, all I listened to was the east coast heavy hitters of the time, and it took me a while to really give Pac the proper attention.  I still consider [...]
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Today’s Sample Saturday includes songs from two very prestigious recordings; Illmatic, one of the most critically acclaimed hip hop albums of all time, and Thriller, the best selling album in history. Illmatic introduced the world to Nas’ lyrical talents and established him immediately as one of the major players in the rap game.  The album did not receive [...]
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
Last year Kevin Casey gave Et Musique Pour Tous the exclusive release on his New York-centric mixtape Live From New York, and what a privilege it was. I don’t want to say much because this entry is all about the interview but we saw K.C. create this mixtape from scratch out of his studio in [...]
Saturday, November 28, 2009
In conjunction with Et Musique Pour Tous, every Saturday I will be posting a song that was produced using a sample, along with the original record. After using a Yvonne Fair song as the hidden track on Live From New York, I started to listen to her music regularly. When I reached the 0:55 mark [...]
Saturday, September 26, 2009
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 [...]
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