[MP3 Audio] Listen to the new Skratch Bastid & The Gaff – Soul Sisters, Stand Up! Mixtape

Part 1 – Stand Up!:


Part 2 – Good Old Days:

The release event was last Friday which I couldn’t make but this mixtape, mixed, scratched, blended & sequenced by Skratch Bastid & The Gaff, is still worth checking out….

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Pete Rock HATES Lupe Fiasco’s “Around My Way (Freedom Ain’t Free)” Track

MP3 Download: Lupe Fiasco – Around My Way (Freedom Aint Free)

Read why HERE. I hear Pete but it’s not like he wrote the track to begin with, he sampled Tom Scott‘s “Today.” This incident probably speaks to a bunch of issues around hip hop today but I’ll leave that to the online peanut gallery to get into….

“Around My Way (Freedom Ain’t Free)” is apparently from the forthcoming Food & Liquor II album.

UPDATE:
Lupe Fiasco responds to Pete’s twitter tirade: MTV RapFix | HipHopDX

Throwback for Fat Tuesday: Bob James – Take Me to the Mardi Gras

Which begat:

Run-DMC – Peter Piper:

MP3 Download: Run-DMC – Peter Piper

And was also sampled by….

2 Live Crew – Megamixx II
2 Live Crew – Who’s Fucking Who?
Alkaholiks – Who Dem N-ggas
Awesome II – Ahooga
Beastie Boys – Hold it Now, Hit It
Biz Markie – Cool V’s Tribute to Scratching
Black Rock & Ron – You Can’t Do Me None [ed note: choooon!]
Caron Wheeler – Livin’ in the Light
Chemical Brothers – Dig Your Own Hole
Dan the Automator – Music to be Murdered By
DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince – Hip Hop Dancer’s Theme
Ed O.G. – Feel Like a Nut
Eric B and Rakim – Don’t Sweat the Technique
Eric B and Rakim – Eric B Made My Day
Eric B and Rakim – The Punisher
Ghostface Killah ft Method Man, Raekwon & Superb – Flowers
Gina Thompson – The Things That You Do
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five – Freelance
Gravediggaz – Pass the Shovel
Heavy D – Nuttin’ But Love
Ice Cube – I Wanna Kill Sam
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo – Deathwish
Kwame – Itz Oh Kay
Kwame – Ownlee Eue
LL Cool J – Rock the Bells
Mantronix – Get Stupid
Mantronix – King of the Beats
Miles Davis – Work It
Naughty by Nature – Let the Ho’s Go
Nightmares on Wax – Coming Down
Pete Rock & CL Smooth – Lots of Lovin’
Pete Rock & CL Smooth – The Sun Won’t Come Out
PM Dawn – Set Adrift on Memory Bliss
Poison Clan – Action
Prince Johnny C – Comin’ to Get Ya
Public Enemy – 1 Million Bottlebags
Slick Rick – The Moment I Feared
Succuss N Effects – Real Deal
Terminator X – Ain’t Got Nuttin’
TKA – Maria
UBC – Harlem $2.50 Pyramid
World Class Wreckin’ Cru – Cabbage Patch
X-Ecutioners – Mad Flava

Happy Mardi Gras or Fat/Shrove/Pancake Tuesday, whatever you call it!

[sampled song list via]

PleaseDontStare x HipHopIsRead pres. RootBeer & Sour: The Top Samples Of 2011 Mix

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Roc vs. Wu: Battle of the Otis Redding – Try A Little Tenderness Sample Chops

Lot of chatter last week about the newly-leaked Kanye West-produced Jay-Z & Kanye West (now known collectively as The Throne??!) track, “Otis”. I was a couple days late joining the fray but, as I noted on Facebook, the track ain’t bad but I think I liked it better when Masta Killa chopped the same “Try A Little Tenderness” sample for his track with Raekwon & Ghostface Killah called “D.T.D.” So who used it better? Them Roc boys or the Wu? Click play below and let me know!

MP3 Download: Jay-Z & Kanye West (The Throne) Otis feat Otis Redding (Prod by Kanye West)

MP3 Download: Masta Killa DTD (Feat. Raekwon & Ghostface Killah)

And here’s the original track “Try A Little Tenderness” by Otis Redding for reference purposes:

MP3 Download: Otis Redding Try a Little Tenderness