I said to her I would just take a few, but found it hard to leave any out. You may know her as a triple j newsreader, she also takes some pretty sweet photos. These are shots from her time in New York earlier this year. See the rest of the gallery and more awesomeness on her site.
Our sample snitching prizes have just been getting better and better. Here our uber-hot producer, Janine models our exclusive, one of a kinda Stolen Records Skrillionaire’s Pendant. Win our weekly pick the sample competition and you could be rocking so much ice it looks like you survived a snow blizzard. Jacob the Jeweler eat your heart out.
We couldn’t really go wrong with this one. Just Blaze the Megatron Don has got bangers for days. DJ Naiki pays tribute to Justin with another extended sample snitching mix. Hear Naiki mashing up tracks Just Blaze produced with the tracks he sampled. Just BLaazzzeeee!
It’s that time again. Melbourne’s Phrase usually pays us a visit just before he is ready drop a new album. We talk about the new record, Babylon, drunken tales in Tasmania and his marriage to the very talented and really quite fetching Jade Macrae.
Playlist:
SBTRKT – Wildfire (Remix) (Feat. Drake)
Jay-Z & Kanye West – Niggas In Paris
Mstrkrkft – Heartbreaker (12th Planet Remix)
Chris Brown Ft. Busta Rhymes & Lil Wayne – Look At Me Now (RL Grime Remix)
J. Cole – Can’t Get Enough
El-P – Drones Over BKLYN
Otis Redding – Try A Little Tenderness
Kanye West & Jay-Z ft Otis Redding – Otis
Ellesquire – Ferociousness (Featuring Tenth Dan)
Daniel Merriweather - Change (Feat. Wale) (MadLAb Remix)
Skyzoo – Return Of The Real
Stark Reality – Dreams Comrades
Baltik – No Registration Please
Fat Joe – I Am Crack
Isaac Hayes – Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic
The Game – Remedy
Rhymefest – Dynomite (Going Postal)
Whatnauts – We Will Always Be Together
Dionne Warwick – You’re Gonna Need Me
Usher – Throwback
Creative Source – I Just Can’t See Myself Without You
Freeway Ft Jay-Z & Beanie Sigel – What We Do
Maze Feat. Frankie Beverly – Before I Let Go (Original LP Version)
Eve & Jadakiss – Let Go (Hit the Dance Floor)
Joe Budden – Pump It Up
Kool & The Gang – Soul Vibrations
Asha Bhosle, Manna Dey, Meena Kapoor & Mohd. Rafi – Chandi Ka Badan
Erick Sermon feat. Redman – React
Johnny Pate – Shaft In Africa
Jay-Z – Show Me What You Got
Kanye West – Touch The Sky (feat. Lupe Fiasco)
Curtis Mayfield – Move on up
I Marc 4 – Distorsion-Mind
Fat Joe – Safe 2 Say
Rose Royce – I’m Going Down
Cam’ron ft Juelz Santana – Oh Boy
Jay-Z – Girls, Girls, Girls
Tom Brock – There’s Nothing In This World That Can Stop Me From Loving You
Weldon Irvine – Morning Sunrise
Lamont Dozier – Let Me Make Love To You
Saigon ft Faith Evans – Clap
The Herd – Signs of Life
Jean Grae – Jeanie Rules
Phrase – Phoenix
Phrase – Velvet Rope
Durrty Goodz – Gunshot
It is funny when the hip hop show descends into a not so private party on stage, which u had the misfortune of witnessing. A bunch of girls dancing badly with old men. Hurry up and end it please, so that we can all go home.
All and all though, it was a good show. On a Thursday evening at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney, the Wu-Tang formed together like Voltron, they just happened to be missing an arm and a leg. Though even with Rza, Meth and ODB absent, the Wu is still a force to be reckoned with. Ghostface alone has the force of 100 emcees when he explodes on the microphone. Plus it’s hard to go wrong with classic tracks for days.
Young Dirty Bastard though? I am just not sure. I understand he is carrying on the legacy, but it just seems a little funny making a career impersonating your father.
I love the line… “I made Jesus Walks I’m never going to hell”. Ah… sorry Kanye. I’m not a religious man, but I am pretty sure it doesn’t work like that. Make a song about Jesus and then you get a green light from the authorities in heaven to engage in whatever debauchery tickles your fancy.
The Diplomats! Not to be confused with Dipset. Their music is a little bit less about cooking crack and more to do with the deep feelings one experiences during a relationship. Here is a track that was sampled by Grind Music (LV & Sean C) for The Hitmen to create a Busta Rhymes banger.
U miss me? Yeah I know there has been a big Shantan shaped hole in the heart of Sydney, but I have returned to your radio with a swag of Cumbia, Salsa and other Latin Grooves.
To get it started we also invited one of our favourite DJs to pay tribute to one of our favourite artists. The right honorable DJ Naiki San plays a set of Gil Scott-Heron classics mixed with the Hip Hop artists that sampled him. Rest In Peace!
DJ NAIKI GIL SCOTT-HERON TRIBUTE SET
Gil Scott Heron – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Masta Ace – Take A Look Around
Gil Scott – Home Is Where The Hatred Is
Kanye West – My Way Home ft Common
Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson – Delta Man (Where I’m Coming From)
Slim Thug – Coming From
Gil Scott Heron – Angel Dust
The Game – Angel ft Common
Gil Scott Heron – Legend In His Own Mind
Mos Def – Mr Nigga
2Pac – Ready 4 Whatever
Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson – 1980
Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson – Angola, Louisiana
PM Dawn – Paper Doll
Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson – The Bottle
Gil Scott Heron – The Klan
Little Brother – Make Me Hot
Gil Scott Heron – We Almost Lost Detroit
Grand Puba – Keep On
Gil Scott Heron – We Almost Lost Detroit
Common – The People
Mos Def & Talib Kweli – Brown Skin Lady
Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson – Winter In America
DJ Ralph – Latino and Proud
Kinfolk Kia Shine – So Krispy (Kinky Electric Noise Cumbia Nativo Remix)
Bomba Estereo - Fuego
Rye rye – Shake It To The Ground (Cumbia Remix)
Systema Solar – Bienvenidos
Willie Hutch! Doesn’t he look good here at Soul Train. Willie was a singer songwriter, but also a producer for Motown working on songs with the Jackson 5, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye and also did the soundtracks for ‘Foxy Brown’ and ‘The Mack’. He also had his own fair share of success as a recording artist. This track comes off his 1973 album ‘Full Exposed’ and was nabbed by Three 6 Mafia.
The ‘Fat Man’ Billy Stewart! Popular in the ’60s, he was a talented singer, songwriter and piano man discovered by Bo Diddley and signed to Chess Records.
From Washington DC, he started out in a group called The Rainbows (they don’t make band names like that anymore) which included Don Covay amongst it’s members, so you know he had been around the block before hitting the big time with songs like ‘Sitting in the Park’, ‘I Do Love You’ and ‘Summertime’.
In 1970 at the age of 33, he was killed in a car crash with three members of his band, but his music lives on and not just as material for hip hop producers hungry for new samples. For instance, ‘Sitting in my Car’ as been covered by a wide range of artists – 50 of them reggae singers and one of them a rapper (Slick Rick).
Here is ‘Cross My Heart’, released on Chess in 1967, and jacked by Just Blaze to produce Jay Electronica’s ‘Exhibit C’.