Tag: hip hop history
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Bob James on those that sampled him
Ian Fondue directed me to this video with legend Bob James – creator of classic and much-sampled tracks like Nautilus, Angela, Westchester Lady, Take Me To The Mardi Gras – those RunDMC bells and many others. It’s an advert for a sample clearing service Tracklib but fascinating having him talk about these samples – and…
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I own hip hop, and you do too
Another day, another person having a go at Iggy Azalea. I’m not opposed to that, she’s an awful pop rapper, but then again it’s that hypocrite Q-Tip trying to lecture a rather skewed picture of hip hop history, pretty sure him and Tribe were middle class kids from Queens? Anyway I’m sure those that grew…
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Lord Footnote vs The World
I’ve never even heard of this Lord Finesse (oh such a player…oh he was the vocal sample in Rockafeller Skank?…that’s hip hop history *right there*. Looking at his wiki page and 3 albums it does make me wonder if this is the hiphop version of patent trolling?) but this video by Dan Bull spells out…