spliz
SplizThaDon
Yea I felt it turned out fine I was just looking at that Twitter thread with dude’s over critiques n shyt like what he says is end all be all. Lol
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You aint a playa until you, a relatively young black man who loves rap, bags a woman who hates rap. Salute to Esco, lol
Piff Perkins
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Back to discussing Blaze A 50...is it possible that clip is from a remix? If the acapellas were readily available to DJs back then, maybe someone added that sample. Or it’s the OG. The sample sounds like some 70s prog rock shyt with those haunting organ keys.
Stuckinthe90s
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Long Kiss Goodnight and the Vega theme tune had a baby....
Sounds like a havoc beat to me. Defintely not a Dre beat.
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Prolific_1011
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I love Blaze a 50 but I really feel that alternate version. People, on this site, been giving me grief for years about that version of Blaze a 50 saying it’s a blend. I think there is something more to it though. If it’s a blend, I think we’d have a better version of it online and someone would’ve taken credit. It was from some radio station in Baltimore. I didn’t know that radio stations were playing DJ blends like that back then and what Dj would put out a then unreleased accapella from Nas without tagging it?
mathematik
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you uploaded a compilation of unreleased snippets & songs! Did you have to delete it?
Some fire on there....Peace
totally forgot the possibility of havoc making that beat...havoc has the most obscure samples...the track was said to have leaked in 1998...that beat was ahead of its time....was havoc working with alchemist during this time? The track didn't sound like anything they may have produced at the time
The Alchemist production discography - Wikipedia
Havoc production discography - Wikipedia
The only reason I mentioned Dr Dre was because the beat reminded me of the 2nd part of "Been there done that" in 1996, which ras kass later used in 1998...Dre had a production corp that would just feed him beats for him to layer his expertise, just look at this channel of all the unreleased Dr Dre beats scattered over the years https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtZ4VBLJj-IthNc_cG1QmDg/videos
the guy even says he has a couple Nas instrumentals that Dr Dre held onto in his vault/collection https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtZ4VBLJj-IthNc_cG1QmDg/search?query=nas ....he has a video of some Foxy Brown Snippet rapping with Dr Dre but I didn't hear Nas, so idk if it's a Firm track or just a Foxy Brown feature (weird picture, I know)
yeah, who even had the acapellas to blaze a 50 during that time to not put DJ drops on it? the only thing that happened was they edited it for radio
what do you mean? this isn't my share folder, i just found it (for those looking for the Kanye-Nas blend tape, it's in there)...I think my video was still up for all the unreleased snippets but youtube ultimately decides the fate to my channel whether if it gets taken down or not...
I find it mildly frustrating yet funny that people who are replying my videos think that I am IllmaticRadio or another Nas instagrammer (they tell me to play my videos on my radio show, etc)....Some copied shyt from me (like nas_files, illmaticEsco, etc) but I ultimately get most of my stuff from that godson_nas page and re-up it to youtube...that guy could get so many more views had he just put his content on youtube besides just instagram and twitter..but some of the stuff he post is like, eh, this doesn't belong anywhere but for shytty instagram/twitter content and replies
yeah, there were a lot of Nas tracks leaking in 1998-99 and onwards...
I still want to know if this is OG or a remix...I pitch corrected it because it was like an octave higher, but the I Am acapella vinyl was readily available after I Am dropped...Kanye had a KISSING remix too but at least he said it was a remix and this was when he was just getting acclimated to rocafella, etc...Kanye produced unreleased Nas tracks too like Kids Have All The Fun, The Toy, Memories, You Can't Stop Me, etc and ghost produced under D-Dot to make Poppa Was A Playa, etc
www.reddit.com/r/nas/comments/mmwaiu/ongoing_list_of_unreleased_nas_tracks_and_snippets/
yeah, DJs say it's OGs to get clout, just look at DJ absolute's soundcloud...dude says he has 2 Nas exclusive tracks but it's just tagging with DJ drops to get views for him passing off his blends...as Big Mark said (idk how to tag people yet) that's typical behavior on what a DJ would do when releasing supposed OG or unreleased Nas material...they just put their drops all over it like DJ 31 degreez/DJ Clue and it takes years to find the untagged version later
the other two been out as existing songs but Absolute decides to rename them anyways to make it seem like they are new songs -- similar to what J Love did on his last Nas Mixtape installation...not only did he rename songs and add drops, he also added in features to make it seem like he has songs that you don't have or heard before J-Love Presents Nas – Nas Finest Part 7 (2008, CD) ...we had a wild goose chase on reddit recently too where one guy was trying to find out a bunch of exclusive Nas tracks but it just turned out to be stuff he already heard before but under a different name www.reddit.com/r/nas/comments/mh1lne/is_this_an_actual_original_2003_version_of_the/
the actual songs...Note: Queenstyle has 3 Nas verses and the final product is called Triple Threat, but triple threat only has 2 Nas verses and they are in different order from the original, FYI
You can compare the verses of Queenstyle with Triple Threat. The only Nas OG that was debunked for sure was Nas is Like, which was just a beat from Group Home - Up Against the Wall (Getaway Car Remix) that someone said in the comments
It's kinda crazy that I come back and I have to reply everybody here...I remember before I was given thecoli access how frustrating it was to read threads but the conversation kept on going south with incomplete information sometimes while some people drop new information that I didn't know....if I offended any DJs out there, my bad, I was just reporting on what 'typical DJ' behavior is
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Piff Perkins
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I fux with that Kissing/Kanye remix, way better than the original.
Damn, just found out the sample to the original Project Windows (The Game Lives on): Aaron Neville - Make Me Strong
S/o to the samplespotters facebook group Facebook Groups they be on top of their shyt
Tracks that Sampled Aaron Neville damn, no rap song really samples Aaron Neville outside of 3 of his songs, fukk
got a lead on Blaze a 50 (OG), too...apparently, it uses the same drums as Mobb Deep's Trife Life...do you guys hear the resemblance? It's kinda there, but the Blaze a 50 drums be thumping a lot more than that mobb deep joint, but it could have been produced by Havoc after all...who else is known to have these type of drums back in late 90s besides maybe Dr Dre?
www.reddit.com/r/hiphop101/comments/mv9njm/need_to_find_2_samples_to_og_nas_songs/
S/o to the samplespotters facebook group Facebook Groups they be on top of their shyt
Tracks that Sampled Aaron Neville damn, no rap song really samples Aaron Neville outside of 3 of his songs, fukk
got a lead on Blaze a 50 (OG), too...apparently, it uses the same drums as Mobb Deep's Trife Life...do you guys hear the resemblance? It's kinda there, but the Blaze a 50 drums be thumping a lot more than that mobb deep joint, but it could have been produced by Havoc after all...who else is known to have these type of drums back in late 90s besides maybe Dr Dre?
www.reddit.com/r/hiphop101/comments/mv9njm/need_to_find_2_samples_to_og_nas_songs/
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Piff Perkins
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My first thought was Havoc too. Thinking of the producers he was working with at the time (98-99) and their styles...Havoc makes the most sense to me. It has that signature snare drum reverb sound.
