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jensyao said:
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?
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Yep...with the retail Blaze A 50....

Calling it the OG will confuse heads.

Thanks for investigating though.
 
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First time hearing that Kanye Kissing remix, it’s pretty nice, was it released anywhere or just a loosie or what?

I don’t really like the original much, can anyone hook it up so I can replace the original with it on my iTunes?
 
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Stuckinthe90s said:
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Now all we need is that dude Fletch....

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did anybody try emailing him? dallas112263@yahoo.com this guy's email must be filled with Nas fans over the years asking him about stuff...that's a yahoo email, i'm pretty sure he moved on, has a gmail, and didn't turn on email-forwarding

I did a quick search and apparently, dallas112263 - Google Search results in a bunch of JFK stuff...11/22/1963 is the day JFK was assassinated in dallas and the guy decided to make his email after that

  • also, what happened to that lattisawtapes dude? he ran a hip hop blog over the years but his site shut down recently...I saw his old posts but I haven't seen him around recently

  • I saw DJ Rhude on here but not recently


  • Soul In Stereo the person who wrote for soul in stereo had some stuff too






  • the people who used to run illroots.com before the site shut down

  • I like DjayTiger blends but he's more doing radio stuff nowadays

Those are the main blogs that I used to follow...every other blog covers too much ground or "sold out" to become entirely something else

wishlist DJs: DJ Clue, DJ Green Lantern, Statik Selektah, DJ Dirty Harry, DDotOmen, DJ MIke Nice, DJ 31 Degreez...people who have exclusive shyt like 2dopeboyz, etc (maybe even Karceno, lmao)

there's a bunch of producers, too many to name...check out this west coast beat flip of "Take it in blood"..sounds like an r&b flip, sampled Fantastic Four - Mixed Up Moods and Attitudes Nas's 'Take It in Blood' - Discover the Sample Source



as mentioned before, there's more supposed unreleased Dr Dre beats that could have went to Nas https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtZ4VBLJj-IthNc_cG1QmDg/search?query=nas

LJLYDK! said:
First time hearing that Kanye Kissing remix, it’s pretty nice, was it released anywhere or just a loosie or what?

I don’t really like the original much, can anyone hook it up so I can replace the original with it on my iTunes?
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I forgot if the Kanye remix is in this or not...but see if it's in there

3.47 GB file on MEGA

from this thread https://www.thecoli.com/threads/nas...-and-rare-aww-yeah.8050/page-32#post-22984406

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I have 24+ versions of Nas' Hope...who produced the original version? LES or Wyldfyer? There's conflicting info

Sites say it's Wyldfyer Nas "Hope" Original version produced by Wyldfyer

but whosampled says LES and Alexander "Spanador" Mosely, Nas Hope by Nas feat. Chrisette Michele on WhoSampled



what happened was that the sample didn't get cleared by the time the album was supposed to drop so the acapella version was on the album, which was kinda a 'happy accident' because it spawned a bunch of DJ remakes to show that hip hop was alive. the original version with the uncleared sample later leaked...the generic drums on the original version sounds forced AF too, like stop using these drum starter kits already on beats, even tho they are a representation of early hip hop

I swear, someone needs to re-lace the sample with the acapella...the original leaked version sounds terrible in quality -- every other mixtape version stems from this original leak (originally surfaced on illroots.com, I think)...I need the original acapella to be laced with DJ Day's instrumental -- at least his drums sound crisp with organic melody layerings...his sample flip sounds the best...rick ross and jay used this same sample on Maybach music, and i'm like, this was supposed to be Nas' instrumental

a lot of beats that Nas rhymes on are either overproduced, not the original beat he heard, underwhelming, or sabotaged by clearance issues

Dave Chappelle - Season 3 Hip Hop News Segment 2 - based off Nas Lyrics "I'll open every cell in Attica, send them to Africa" - "If I Ruled The World"



I wrote about the other times Nas and Dave Chappelle coincided here

 
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Yes, I would shout out @DJRhude on her for when he first dropped The Found Tapes. He tagged them but later released everything with no DJ. He still dropping’ rare stuff for other artist. Wonder if he come across anymore Nas stuff. Maybe he has stockpiled a few more for another installment of The Found Tapes.
 
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H.S. said:
:patrice: I'm not hearing what y'all are on that Blaze a 50 remix. Definitely doesn't match the cinematic energy of the original imo.

The Kanye remix of Kissing sounds kinda cool though. I like how they did the hook.
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It's more of a pet project for me...finding samples and restoring old songs on what they would have sounded like...I want to know who produced the disputed KISSING OG/remix...that sample is fire tho...like a hotel balcony satin sheets cool wind breeze flow...anyways, here are the samples to the unknown producer and Kanye's remix of KISSING, reposted for reference, back when producers didn't tag their shyt, and barely anyone knew who produced the song




idk, the format gets old quick if every song during that era gets the "kanye chipmunk soul treatment", but the soul sound is timeless... a lot of the "forced hooks" like KISSING could have been easily been replaced with lyrics from soul samples for the song to sound 2x+ better...I would even go as far as to say that the Ron Isley feature on Project Windows had too much Ron adlibs over the verse to make out what the message that Nas was trying to convey, and that is why people like the "plain OG version" of "The Game Lives On" a lot more than what the overproduced album version turned out to be...I think it was politics because Ron basically drowned out the latter half of the song with just his adlib vocals and the collab sounded "forced"

a simple sample of soul lyrics could have been good enough rather than an actual feature, but there's more money in featuring so I guess that's why some singers elect to be featured rather than sampled (Enya for 'I Don't Wanna Know,' Otis Redding's vocals on 'Otis' got a feature instead of a sample, etc), and the rapper/producer have to beg/write persuasive letters for samples to clear (Jay for Hard Knock Life), which is pretty difficult under album deadline circumstances
 
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