That awkward New Zealandy sense of humour, you don’t know how to respond to. It is like having old DJ Ability in the studio again, when Home Brew Crew popped by. They have been totally killing it in New Zealand topping the charts with their new self titled double album. We talk. They rap. It was good. Catch Home Brew at the Civic Underground in Sydney tonight. Details right hurr!
In addition, Naiki pays tribute to the Beat Conducta with a sweet set of Madlib produced jams and the original samples. The genius behind projects like Madvillian, Jaylib, Yesterday’s New Quintet, Lootpack, Quasimoto, The Medicine Show and more. Catch him Friday at the Metro in Sydney supported by Egon and J Rocc… Deeets yo!
It is debatable whether he is the best to ever do it, but he has definitely been consistent and outlasted many of his peers. He has come a long way from crack cocaine raps to becoming a respectable member of the establishment rubbing shoulders with dignitaries such as Prince Charles and President Obama. In my opinion a key part of his success has been a good ear for hip hop production. With so many hits and so many sweet as soul samples, Naiki’s tribute mashing up Jay-Z classics and the original samples was as killer as predicted.
Playlist
Jay-Z and Marvin Gaye – Hello Brooklyn (ft. Lil Wayne)
Marvin Gaye – Sexual Healing
Rick Ross – Amsterdam
Rick Ross – Amsterdam (Sticky Stockholm Re-Edit)
Donaeo – Move To Da Gyal Dem
Diafrix – Helicopter (Mat Cant Remix)
Turntable Dubbers & Sebski feat Top Cat – I Like Your Style (Warrior One remix)
Sampology – Around the Globe (feat. Serocee)
Mungo’s Hi Fi – Soundboy Police (feat. Soom T)
Super Cat – Dance Inna New York
Nas – The Don
Sky’high – Don Dada
Spit Syndicate – Beauty In The Bricks
DJ NAIKI – JAY-Z vs ORIGINAL SAMPLES MIX
Jay-Z – Can I Live
Jay-Z – Feelin’ It (feat. Mecca)
Ahmad Jamal – Pastures
Lonnie Liston-Smith – A Garden of Peace
Jay-Z – Dead President
The Stylistics – Hurry Up This Way Again
Jay-Z – Politics As Usual
Gladstone Anderson – Mad Mad Ivy
Jay-Z – Already Home (feat. Kid Cudi)
Bobby Bland – Ain’t No Love In The Heart of The City
Jay-Z – Heart Of The City
MFSB – Something For Nothing
Jay-Z – What More Can I Say
Labi Siffre – I Got Blues Street Watching
Jay-Z – Street Is Watching
Wet Willie – Beggar Song
Jay-Z feat. Kid Capri & Liz Leite – It’s Like That
Jay-Z – So Ghetto
Ennio Morricone – Sporco Ma Distinto
Bee Gees – Love You Inside Out
Jay-Z – Honey
Ohio Players – Ecstacy
Jay-Z – Brooklyns Finest (feat. Notorious B.I.G.)
Rick James – Moonchild
Jay-Z – You’re Only A Customer
Johnny Pate – Shaft in Africa
Jay-Z – Show Me What You Got
Justice – D.A.N.C.E. (Live Version)
Jay-Z – On To the Next One (feat. Swizz Beatz)
Jay Z ft Alicia Keys – Empire State of Mind
The Delfonics – Love On A Two Way Street
Tom Brock – There’s Nothing In This World That Can Stop Me From Loving You
Jay-Z – Girls, Girls, Girls
Hossam Ramzy – Khusara, Khusara
Jay-Z feat. UGK – Big Pimpin’
Jackson 5 – I Want You Back
Jay-Z – Izzo
Jay-Z – Anything
2Pac – Me And My Girlfriend
Jay-Z Ft. Beyonce – Bonnie And Clyde
Kendrick Lamar – Compton ft Dr Dre
Blu & Exile – Growing Pains
J Dilla – The $ (Madlib Remix)
Oh No – Move (Feat. Roc C)
Urthboy – Clean Slate ft Delta
Listen: Girls – It’s A Hard Knock Life
Listen: Jay-Z – Hard Knock Life
Listen: Ohio Players – Ecstacy
Listen: Jay-Z – Brooklyn’s Finest ft Notorious B.I.G.
Happy fun times. The might Thundamentals join us for talk and rapping. Plus we play some of our favourite Outkast and Dungeon Family classics and get into some future beats from the future.
DJ Raff – Cocaine
Onra and Wajeed – The One
Jaylib – Starz
Edseven – Pigeon Clip
Lopez – Barrio
Marla Rodreguez – Toca Toca
Freddie Cruger and Rappadon – Bap Yo Hed
Phrase – Just For You – Babylon
Antonio Carlos E Jocafi – Kabaluere
Nu-Mark & Chali 2na – Comin Thru
Phatchance ft Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know
Young Jeezy – Shake Life
OUTKAST/DUNGEON FAMILY TRIBUTE MIX
Outkast – Last Call (Feat. Slimm Calhoun, Lil’ Jon & The Eastside Boyz, & Mello)
Big Boi – Shutterbug
Killer Mike ft Sleepy Brown & Big Boi ADIDAS
Cee-Lo Green & Jack Splash – Right Now
Outkast – Player’s Ball (Original)
Outkast – ATLiens
Big Gipp ft Sleepy Brown – Steppin Out
Cool Breeze ft Sleepy’s Theme – Eastpointin’
Sleepy Brown ft Andre 3000 – I Can’t Wait
Big Boi ft Sleepy Brown & Joi – Turns Me On
Andre 3000 – Roses (Kero One Remix)
Dungeon Family – Follow The Light
Sleepy Brown ft Pharrell & Big Boi – Margarita
Outkast – Way You Move
Big Boi – Shine Blockas ft Bun B & Project Pat (Remix)
Outkast – Southernplaylisticcadillacmusick
Rich Boy – Throw Some D’s feat. Andre 3000
Outkast – Git Up, Git Out ft. Goodie Mob
Outkast – So Fresh, So Clean (Locsmif Mix)
Janelle Monáe – Tightrope ft. B.o.B (Wondamix)
Bubba Sparxxx – Ugly
Outkast – B.O.B.
Outkast – Bombs Over Your House (Locsmif Mix)
Yung Joc – Ugh ft Rick Ross
Ellesquire – Ferociousness THUNDAMENTALS INTERVIEW
Thundamentals – Check Your Fresh ft Vida Sunshyne THUNDAMENTALS RAPPING TIME
Thundamentals – Dimension 3
Music from Lanie Lane, Raphael Saadiq, Frootful, Estelle and more. However, the centre piece of tonights show is our tribute to the late great Miss Amy Winehouse. She was a troubled girl, but there has always been something I have admired about her rugged charm, brash sense of humour and honesty, which comes out with such feeling in her music.
Famed producer, Salaam Remi – who worked with Amy Winehouse on Frank, Back To Black and her unfinished comeback album – had this to say about Amy’s personality when recently talking to New York’s Power 105.1 FM.
“Amy had strong opinions on everything. …. She was very opinionated about what she liked. At the end, she was a real person,” he said. “She had a huge heart. We’d be working for hours and she would have everybody in the room snickering. She always had a joke. You could hear a lot of that in her lyrics, she could be sarcastic and she was extremely witty … but more than anything else she was a real person, an individual artist.”
“To put it all in a nutshell, Amy loved to sing, to write … that ability never left her,” he said. “She was very good at channeling her emotions into lyrics, and then being able to sing them. She was in a place to go forward and make it happen. … The way that Amy and I always created was, she would write and we would toss ideas around.”
Rest In Peace Amy!
Playlist:
Cassidy – Drink and My 2 Step (Cousin Cole REMIX)
Aldo Vanucci – Naive ft Amy J
Jay-Z feat. The Dap Kings – 99 Problems (Prince of Ballard Remix)
Dennis Coffey – All Your Goodies Are Gone feat. Mayer Hawthorne
Kanye West & Jay-Z ft Otis Redding – Otis
Lanie Lane – What Do I Do
Ballin’ Jack – Found A Child
Young MC – Bust a Move
Frootful – Fish In The Sea (feat Angeline Morrison)
Cookin’ Soul x Chuuwee – Just Ain´t Gonna Work Out feat. Mayer Hawthorne
Amy Winehouse – Me & Mr Jones
The Specials – Hey, Little Rich Girl
Amy Winehouse – Hey Little Rich Girl
Amy Winehouse ft Pharoahe Monch – Rehab (Remix)
The Zutons – Valerie
Mark Ronson Feat. Amy Winehouse – Valerie ft Rukus Precha, Alex Blood and Malik (Baby J Remix )
Andy & Joey – You’re Wondering Now (Mix out at around 1:00)
Amy Winehouse – You’re Wondering Now
Amy Winehouse – Tears Dry
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
The Shirelles – Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
Amy Winehouse – Know You Now
Funky DL ft Amy Winehouse – Handed To You Free
Amy Winehouse – Fuck Me Pumps
Ghosface Killah & Amy Winehouse – You Know I’m No Good
Nas Made You Look (acapella)
Amy Winehouse – In My Bed
Amy Winehouse – He Can Only Hold Her
The Icemen – My Girls She’s a Fox
Billie Holiday – There Is No Greater Love
Amy Winehouse – (There Is) No Greater Love
Common – Ghetto Dreams ft NAS
Major Lazer ft Santigold & Mr Lexx – Hold the Line (yum yum Warning Rmx)
YT & Mr Williamz – Smiley Culture Tribute
Estelle – Come Over
Warren G & Nate Dogg – Regulaterock (Jstar Remix)
Beastie Boys – Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win (feat. Santigold) (Major Lazer Remix)
Frank Ocean – Novacane
Janelle Monáe – Tightrope (Wondamix) (feat. B.o.B & Lupe Fiasco)
J. Cole – Ladies ft. Lee Fields and the Expressions
Clipse ft Lee Fields – Mr. Me Too (Z.A.K. Remix)
Lee Fields – Honey Dove
Raphael Saadiq – Movin’ Down The Line
A week after Guru passed away, we invited one of our favourite DJ’s, Naiki San, to help us pay tribute. This is a set of Gang Starr and Jazzamatazz material mixed with the original soul and jazz that was sampled to make these hip hop classics.
My first memory of Gang Starr was at the under 18 parties when we used to do the running man to ‘Love Sick’. Later on albums like ‘Daily Operation’ and ‘Hard To Earn’ got heavy rotation in my walkman. While Gang Starr helped define the New York hip hop sound, Jazzmatazz introduced me to the soul artists that made hip hop possible. Then much later on I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to interview Guru himself.
He was still producing great material up until recently. On his last mixtape ‘Back to The Future’, released in 2008, he was spitting just as good as ever. He murders it on some old fast rap tracks.
Ceasar Frazier – Funk It Down
Gang Starr – Ex Girl To Next Girl
Hiroshima – Shinto
Gang Starr ft Total – Discipline
Gang Starr – You Know My Steez
Bob James – Look Alike
Gang Starr – The ? Remainz
Sugar Billy Garner – I Got Some
Gang Starr – B.Y.S.
Cal Tjader – Walk On By
Gang Starr – Full Clip
Da Youngstaz – Pass Da Mic (Remix)
Gang Starr – Mass Appeal
Monk Higgins – Little Green Apples
Gang Starr – Code Of The Streets
Jean-Jacques Perrey – E.V.A.
Gang Starr – Just To Get A Rep
Maceo & the Macks – Parrty, Pt. 1
Gang Starr – Who’s Gonna Take The Weight
Gang Starr – Dwyck
Gang Starr – Royalty
Donald Byrd – Think Twice
Guru ft Slum Village – Cuz I’m Jazzy
Average White Band – Stop The Rain
Gang Starr – Gotta Get Over
Gang Starr – Skills
Janini Panini
STOLEN RECORDS 