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musical interlude · by Rafi Kam
“Now if you’re talking rap music..in rap the music itself is colorless. You can take music from any type of field like soul, funk, heavy metal, jazz, calypso and reggae. As long as it’s funky and has that heavy beat and groove. You can take any part of it to make hip hop. Hip hop can deal with the past, the present and it can deal with the future. Now it’s what a rapper puts on top of it that will make it a black thing or a white thing or a human thing or a universal thing…The music itself comes from all types of sound. When people are digging for that beat or groove they take from all fields of music.” – Africa Bambaataa
Rolling Stones – Monkey Man (link expired)
How awesome is this Rolling Stones paean to heroin addiction? Very awesome, particularly the 30 second intro. This was sampled by a significantly less awesome song on the Farewell Fondle Em cd.
Professor Longhair – Big Chief
Found via an excellent post at Music Like Dirt revealing sample sources and influences for Lily Allen’s LP.
Since I’m unleashing my inner hipster, how about some Wilco circa 99. An undeniably great pop song.
Comments for "musical interlude"
Great Wilco choice. Love that track. Someone needs to sample that piano riff.
— Mo! Oct 10, 07:06 PM
You don’t even need that Africa Bambaataa quote.
Rap is so bad right now that now that other genres music sales should go up auotmatically.
— Start Snitching Oct 10, 07:56 PM
Yooo, that Rolling Stones song is crazy and that Professor Longhair is even crazier!
Thanks.
— Colin C. Oct 10, 09:01 PM