tell a nigga no wit a ass so fat, why you wanna go and dat love, huh?
Original Recipe #10: Why You Wanna
Original Gravy #9: Fantasy
I’m in heaven, with my boyfriend, my lovely boyfriend…
Download: Genius of Love – Tom Tom Club
Original Recipe #8: The Light
There are times, when you’ll need someone, I will be by your side
Download: Bobby Caldwell – Open Your Eyes
Original Recipe #7: I Love College
That party last night was awfully crazy, I wish we taped it…
Download: Weezer – Say It Ain’t So
Original Recipe #6: Lucifer
I’m from the murda capital, where we murda for capital.
Download: I Chase the Devil – Max Romeo
Original Recipe #4: Hearltess
This week, I tackle Kanye’s Heartless, form his most recent album, 808′s & Heartbreak. He sampled a song by the Alan Parsons Project, titled Ammonia Avenue. The sample starts at 2:32.
I’ll try and find and mp3 for you guys as soon as I can.
Original Recipe #3: Starz
In honor of the memory of one of the illest producers to ever do it, here I have the original song that Dilla sampled for Starz, off of Champion Sound. As a bonus, I’ll throw up the track he sampled to make Runnin’ for The Pharcyde. RIP Dilla. Gone, but certainly not forgotten.
Download: The Stars Are Out Tonight – Starcastle
Bonus: Saudade Vem Correndo – Stan Getz & Luiz Bonfa (sample starts at 2:04)
Original Recipe #2: Crazy
Here I have the sample for a song that took 2006 by storm. You couldn’t turn on the radio without hearing this track.
Musically, Crazy was inspired by film scores of spaghetti Westerns, in particular by the works of Ennio Morricone, who is best known as the composer of Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy. The song samples a portion of Last Man Standing by the brothers Gian Franco and Gian Piero Reverberi from the 1968 spaghetti Western Django, Prepare a Coffin (Preparati la bara!) (The track is listed as Nel Cimitero di Tucson on the film’s soundtrack).
Download: Nel Cimitero Di Tucson
Original Recipe #1: A Milli
Starting now, about every week I’m gonna hook you guys up with the original track that was sampled for some of hip-hop’s biggest beats. To start it off right, I have the titan A Milli, which samples a rare remix of Tribe’s I Left My Wallet In El Segundo. The sample starts at at about 3:48.
