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Sample Snitching: Jay Electronica – Exhibit C

Posted on April 9, 2011 by | Leave a comment

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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’.

MP3: Billy Stewart – Cross My Heart | Buy

MP3: Jay Electronica – Exhibit C | Buy

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Sample Snitching: I’d Rather Be Bootsy Collins

Posted on March 25, 2011 by | 2 comments

One of the greatest bass guitarists of all time. Possibly THE greatest. He worked with James Brown, Parliament and Funkadelic, and according to my flatmate he invented bass rhythms that would later become the basis of 90s hip hop. Ol’ Gregg gives us the back story about how he got the funk, and here are a couple of rappers that tried to sample some of that sweet milky funk juice.

MP3: Bootsy Collins – I’d Rather Be With You (1976) | Buy

MP3: 2 Pac – I Rather Be Ya Nigga ft. Richie Rich (1996) | Buy

MP3: N.W.A. – I’d Rather Fuck You ft. CPO (1991) | Buy

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Nate Dogg Tribute: All Dogs Go To Heaven

Posted on March 24, 2011 by | Leave a comment

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Rappers. They love a verse, but so many of them get a little confused when that chorus bit comes along. When a few cuts aren’t going to do and you need a hit hook for your little rap song, then you would crack open the piggy bank, ask your mum for an advance on your pocket money, search through your couch for an extra G and give Nate Dogg a call.

We pay tribute to the G-Funk Crooner with a set of Nate Dogg Hits and the original samples – Mixed together by DJ Naiki.

We are also joined in the studio by Tuka, Nick Knowledge and Nick Lupi of Spit Syndicate for a freestyle rap session.

Playlist:
Mista Grimm – Indo Smoke ft Warren G & Nate Dogg
Xzibit ft Nate Dogg – Multply
E-40 -Where The Party At
2 Pac – All Eyez On Me (Feat. Big Syke)
Warren G ft Jah Skillz – Super Soul Sis
Jean Grae – Rocket In Pocket
Sade – Kiss Of Life
MF DOOM – Doomsday
Madvillain – Fancy Clown
Bingethinkers – AUS Stylin
Snoop Dogg – Ain’t No Fun ft Warren G, Kurupt and Nate Dogg
Toto – Waiting For Love
Shade Shiest ft Kurupt and Nate Dogg – Where I Wanna Be
Michael McDonald – I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near)
Warren G ft Nate Dogg – Regulate
Dr Dre – Next Episode ft Snoop Dogg, Kurupt and Nate Dogg
Dazz Band – You Are My Starship
213 – Groupie Love
Lionel Richie – Love Will Find A Way
Tha Dogg Pound – I Don’t Like To Dream About Getting Paid
2Pac – All About You ft Snoop Dogg, Kurupt and Nate Dogg
Cameo – Candy
Chico & Coolwada – You Make My High Come Down (ft Nate Dogg)
Evelyn ‘Champagne’ King – Love Come Down
Emotions – Rejoice
213 – Gotta Find A Way
Boney M – Sunny
Mark Ronson – Ohh Wee ft Ghostface Killah, Trife & Nate Dogg
The Controllers – If Tomorrow Never Comes
Snoop Dogg – Boss’s Life (Nate Dogg Remix)
50 Cent ft Nate Dogg – 21 Questions
Barry White – It’s ONly Love Doing It’s Thing
Donny Hathaway – I Believe To My Soul
Nate Dogg – I Got Love
Maze – While I’m Alone
Snoop Doggy Dogg & Nate Dogg – G Funk
Snoop Dogg ft Nate Dogg – Crazy
James Pants – We’re Together
Pharaoh Monche – Clap
Nick Knowledge – Bondi Summer
Tuka – Illtronic

MP3: 2 Pac – All About You ft Nate Dogg, Snoop Dogg & Dru Down | iTunes

MP3: Cameo – Candy | iTunes

MP3: Snoop Dogg ft Nate Dogg – Crazy | iTunes

MP3: Mista Grimm ft Warren G & Nate Dogg – Indo Smoke | Yahoo Music

MP3: Michael McDonald – I Keep Forgetting (Warren G – Regulate Sample) | iTunes

MP3: Ludacris – Area Codes ft Nate Dogg | iTunes

Podcast: Download Full Show with Nate Dogg Tribute Mix and Mega-Freestyle

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Sample Snitching: Sweet Sable – Old Time’s Sake

Posted on March 22, 2011 by | Leave a comment





These photos were too funny not to blog. A while ago an old friend of mine, Astrid posted these shots on her facebook. Yes that is me in the orange Lowes jumper performing at Eastgarden’s shopping centre. With lyrics like “It ain’t easy being on social security. So they consider me, a burden to society”, I was an instant hit amongst local shoppers that flocked with groceries in hand.

Adidas and Nike jumpers, awful undercuts with long fringes, high waisted jeans, but I think what makes these photo collages so perfect is Astrid’s Catholic School Girl meets Graffiti style of writing. Awesome to the power of infinity plus one.

Competition: What were you wearing in the 90s?

Send your photos to stolenrecords@fbiradio.com and I will repay you with a signed and framed photo of Janet Jackson or Aaron Hall much like this one from MC Hammer and take you out to dinner or something.

MP3: Sweet Sable – Old Time’s Sake | Yahoo Music

MP3: Overproof – Old Time’s Sake | Download Bad News Mixtape

MP3: Eddie Kendricks – Intimate Friends | iTunes

Extra Nostalgic Jams
MP3: Ahmad – Back In The Day | iTunes

MP3: Shai – Waiting For The Day | iTunes

MP3: Jodeci – Success | iTunes

MP3: Foxy Brown – If I | iTunes

MP3: Pegz – Back Then | iTunes

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Sample Snitching: Teena Marie a.k.a. Lady T Tribute

Posted on December 28, 2010 by | Leave a comment

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Possibly one of the first white rappers, and definitely the only white soul artist of the 80’s that had consistent, credible hits on the R&B charts, Teena Marie died on Sunday at the age of 54. To pay our tribute, we thought we would post some Teena Marie classics and some of the hip hop songs she inspired. Oh and check out her rap verse on Square Biz. Fyyyyaaahhhh!

MP3: Teena Marie – Square Biz (1981) | iTunes

MP3: Nicki Minaj & Jadakiss – Square Bizzin’

MP3: Teena Marie – Ooh La La (1988) | iTunes

MP3: The Fugees – Fu-Gee-La (Refugee Camp Remix) | iTunes

MP3: The Fugees – Fu Gee La (Loo & Placido Remix)

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Dionne Warwick – You’re Gonna Need Me

Posted on December 12, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Dionne WarwickIf I was stuck on a desert island with just one song, Dionne Warwick’s “You’re Gonna Need Me” just might be that record I pick. Have been binging on this song again this weekend. Released in 1973, you can get it on her album Just Being Me.

MP3: Dionne Warwick – You’re Gonna Need Me

MP3: Ms Dynamite & Akala – Against All Odds from A Little Darker

MP3: Lazy Grey – Stop N Think from Banned In Queensland

MP3: J Dilla – Stop from Donuts

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Toto La Momposina and Timbaland’s Colombian Flute

Posted on November 7, 2010 by | 1 comment

Toto La Momposina

It’s like when Mickey Rooney puts on the buckteeth and angry eyebrows for Breakfast at Tiffany’s or when they dress up a bunch of Pueto Rican’s in feathers for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade in New York, Timbaland thinks that he can enlist Bhangra vocalist Raje Shwari and we wouldn’t notice that the flute that he is singing about is not actually Indian, but in fact Colombian. Racist.

MP3: Toto La Momposina – Curcura | buy

MP3: Timbaland & Magoo ft Raje Shwari & Sebastian – Indian Flute | buy

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Sample Snitching: The Icemen – My Girl (She’s A Fox)

Posted on September 14, 2010 by | 1 comment
Young Jimi Hendrix

Oh this is not The Icemen. It's a young Jimi with Wilson Pickett from 1966

This little 7″ single and possibly the group that made this track, may have been totally forgotten if not for the fact they employed a young James Marshall (a.k.a. Jimi Hendrix) to play guitar on this song. Between touring with Curtis Knight and the Squires, James was doing a bit of session work for King Curtis. Out of these sessions came songs for King Curtis himself, Lonnie Youngblood, Jimmy Normans and this one for The Icemen – a soul duo made up of James Stokes and Gino Armstrong.

This track was sampled on both Amy Winehouse and John Legend records in 2007. Coincidence? Maybe they picked up the same Jimi Hendrix – The Early Years compilation.

Download: The Icemen – My Girl She’s A Fox

Download: Amy Winehouse – He Can Only Hold Her | iTunes

Download: John Legend – Slow Dance | iTunes

Bonus
Here is a tidbit from old school UK rapper, Funky DL’s mixtape ‘Back to Rap’, where he raps on beats that sample Amy Winehouse’s ‘Back to Black’. Get the mixtape here

Download: Funky DL – What She Running From

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Sample Snitching: Xzibit and Gabriel Faure

Posted on July 27, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Gabriel Faure

When I’m not listening to songs about sex, money and violence, I like to fill the room with one of my favourite French romantic composers, Gabriel Faure.  Pavane in F-Sharp Minor is a piece he composed in 1887, and was sampled more than 100 years later by Xzibit. At the time when he wrote it, he was unhappily married and earning very little for his compositions, which were selling for about 50 Francs to the publisher. He was a bit of a depressive, pedantic sort of a chap. In his time off from his day job working as a church organist, he would write these large scale works and a couple piano pieces, but unhappy with how they were received he would destroy them just after a few performances. Here is the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra playing one that thankfully survived.

MP3: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra – Pavane in F-Sharp Minor | Buy

MP3: Xzibit – Paparazzi | Buy

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