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Fat Joe – That White

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I don’t have much info about the group The Eleventh Hour. They have an album “Greatest Hits” which is slightly misleading, being that I’ve never seen any other albums by them. There are some interesting facts about the album however. For one, all songs on the album were written by Bob Crewe, who is famous for writing several of Frankie Valli and the 4 Seasons hits. Second, the horns on the album were arranged by Tom Scott. Finally, there is a version of “Lady Marmalade” (written by Bob Crewe) on this album. The most interesting part here is that this version was released the same year (1974) as the hit version by Labelle. It’s possible this version was released first.

The track “Nasty” was sampled by DJ Premier for the Fat Joe cut “That White“. Once again, DJ Premier chops an otherwise boring intro and makes a crazy beat out of it. Check it out.

Gospel Drum Break

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Nobody but Jesus can inspire a dope drum break like this. Shirely Caesar was a gospel/soul/r&b artist on United Artists records. Despite her sexual pose and big afro on the album cover, this LP is pretty much a snoozer. Most of the tracks are traditional soul-like gospel music. The track “Nobody but Jesus” has a long drum break in the intro, ripe for the sampling. Check it out.

There is also a cover of a Stevie Wonder cut “Jesus Children of America” but it has the same sound as the rest of the album.

Mobb Deep – All Mine

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Mobb Deep released a double-disc compilation, The Infamous Archives
featuring several tracks of unreleased material. The album was a mix of everything from the Infamous-era to the early 2000′s. One of the more recent stand-outs on the album is “All Mine“. There is no production credit listed for the song, so I’m going to assume it’s Havoc until someone tells me otherwise.

Whoever did produce it has an exceptional ear for catching samples. The main loop is buried deep (1:26 seconds in) in the track Chase from “Westworld” by Fred Karlin. The song is off the Westworld soundtrack. I’ve never seen/heard of the movie, but you can read about it on Wikipedia. The soundtrack is pretty boring and contains mostly country-western instrumentals. There are 2 “chase” themes which both have a more modern-70′s soundtrack feel. Take a listen to the track and see if you can hear the Mobb Deep loop.

GZA – Lyrical Swords

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In an attempt to become relevant again, Wu-Tang partnered up with Think Differently Music to release the compilation Wu-Tang meets Indie Culture. The album was a combination of various Wu-Tang members collabo-ing with underground artists. The result was a fairly decent album with a few good cuts. One of those tracks, is by GZA, “Lyrical Swords” featuring Ras Kass.

The song samples a pretty hillarious cut “Your Little Sister” by The Mighty Marvelows. Most guys can relate to this song – wanting to bang your friend’s younger sister lol. The album is very mid-60′s-ish soul with heavy Doo Wop influence, similiar to The Platters or early work by The Impressions. I copped my copy for $50.00 in VG+ (yikes!). However, I believe the album is a compilation of their 45′s, so you might be able to find the sample cut on it’s own if you don’t want to shell out the cash for the LP. For the bonus trivia question, the album is arranged and produced by Johnny Pate of Shaft in Africa fame.

Fanatic of the B-Side

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C’mon everybody do the baseball! This is the throw-back sample of the week, brought to you by rock/funk/blues bank White Lightnin’. “That’s No Lie” was used for the De La Soul classic cut “Fanatic of the B-Word” produced by Prince Paul.

The White Lightnin’ album is actually pretty wack. Other than the first few bars of the sample cut, the rest of the album is very guitar/blues heavy, which I’m not really a fan of. Unless you are a die-hard De La fan or obsessed with records (like me) I wouldn’t advise picking this one up, as it usualy goes for $20-$40.

On a related note, De La Soul just released a new album “First Serve” on Duck Down records.

Children of the Night

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Unfortunately, I don’t have much info on the group Eon. The appear to be from the New York City and were on Scepter Records. Thier self-titled album is mediocre at best. It’s generic 70′s soul/r&b that you’d expect from the era. However, the cut “Children of the Night” was used by the NYGz for the song “3 Man Weave“. For those who don’t know, the NYGz are a side group by DJ Premier. However, “3 Man Weave” was produced by Emile.