You know, being a dude who’s fully wired-up to the ether like what I am, that I pay attention to synchronicities. Yesterday there were sevens all over the place, and today I listened to the first three tracks of of RZA’s new album, before someone sent me Nas‘, so I peeped a bit of that. The last RZA song I listened to was a joint called You Can’t Stop Me Now, familiar to me as it was based on the same sample as one of my favourite King Geedorah joints, Anti-Matter ft MF Doom & Mr Fantastic. The sample is from an amazing joint called Message From A Black Man (click ti listen) by The Watnauts. Anway.
I pop on the Nas joint, and I’m smacked upside the ears by a song called You Can’t Stop us Now. Guess what the sample is?
Indeed.
Nas also has a joint called We’re Not Alone on there. I got a joint called We Are Not Alone on my new album. Mine is better, I gotta say, but Nas doesn’t fuck the concept up. It’s similar, but through Nas eyes. That shit is beautiful to me.
Anyway. Here’s those songs for your purusal. I still think Doom wins. How about you?
Stream: King Geedorah ft MF Doom & Mr Fantastic - Anti-Matter
Stream: RZA - You Can’t Stop Me Now
Stream: Nas - You Can’t Stop us Now
- WE ARE AT WAR
- GOOD!
- CLONES
- NEW MUSIC: Oasis, Marvin and Blueprint
- Chew On A Barrel Of Love
- Adam Curry Plays ‘Bankers’, is a G
Tags: anti-matter, king geedorah, Message From A Black Man, mf doom, mr fantastic, nas, rza, sample, stic man, synchronicity, the watnauts, untitled, you can't stop me now, you can't stop us now
We have a theory that publishing companies do sales like Top Shop at certain times of the year and say “This isn’t going to be the most exclusive sample this quarter because we’re offering a great deal on it. 70/30 in your favour with a small lump sum, but for that offer we can’t grant you any sort of exclusivity” it means that artists on three different sides of the spectrum end up with the same sample and some times practically the same beat.
Lil Flip Feat. Rick Ross- I Get Money
50 Cent- I Get Money
That’s my favourite example because that Lil Flip album did so badly but it literally came out months before ‘Curtis’.
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:23 am
Bronze: Nas
Silver: RZA
Gold: MF Doom
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Ha!
I missed that. Shit, i used to look out for Flip too. This is the way we ball!
Why’s he so happy about paying 2 milli cash to get out of that deal? That’s just weird to me.
Shit, I’m gonna ask my people at BMG about your theory.
Actually, one thing they do is send out these CDs of stuff for you to sample/use in an advert or whatever. I got loads of those. And I have used them…
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:49 pm
“If I was a producer, I don’t know if I could handle the fact that I somehow managed to flip a sample even worse than the 2008-era RZA. This isn’t so good that someone in management over in Def Jam shouldn’t step in and be like, “You know what? RZA put this same record out as a single a few weeks ago, and hardly anyone even liked that. It’s probably in our best interest to just leave this off of the album. Nas doesn’t have a joint with Primo on this yet, right? Let’s get the two of them in a studio together. That’s usually a good idea.” Bol > everyone who works at Def Jam.”
Bol on Nas’ version.
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:58 pm
All of them are cheap-ass loops of a well-known classic. Are you sure this is synchronicity and not just creative bankruptcy?
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Akira and Tego, you may enjoy this article re hip-hop and indie
http://arts.hurryupharry.org/?p=9
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Don’t sleep on Mos Def: Undeniable from True Magic. Same shit.
July 22nd, 2008 at 5:55 am