Just Another Nigga From The Bronx

Fat Joe Da Gangsta - Represent

Another Collab with Kev & Thomas over at Thisishiphop. This album is Fat Joe's debut. Lyrically it was nothing special (this was before he had Pun to Ghost for him), but the beats were classic early 90's boom-bap. The sample set is suprisingly very Jazzy (and I mean Bop jazzy, not Funk jazzy). My fave track is the 30 minute-plus Miles Davis track "He Loved Him Madly". Enjoy.

Changing World ["Livin' Fat"] 1 George Benson 4:56 160 kbps Represent [The Samples]
Let Your Hair Down ["Bad Bad Man"] 2 Yvonne Fair 4:09 160 kbps Represent [The Samples]
Lover & a Friend [''Watch The Sound''] 3 Eddie Bo & Inez Cheatham 2:35 160 kbps Represent [The Samples]
Ring the Alarm [''Watch The Sound''] 4 Tenor Saw 5:14 160 kbps Represent [The Samples]
Get Out of My Life Woman ["Flow Joe"] 5 Lee Dorsey 2:33 160 kbps Represent [The Samples]
The Long Wait ["Flow Joe"] 6 Morton Stevens 2:26 160 kbps Represent [The Samples]
Pride and Vanity [''Da Fat Gangsta''] 7 Ohio Players 4:26 160 kbps Represent [The Samples]
Please Sunrise, Please [''Shorty Gotta Fat Ass''] 8 Young-Holt Unlimited 2:52 160 kbps Represent [The Samples]
Ridin' High [''The Shit Is Real''] 9 Faze-O 5:20 160 kbps Represent [The Samples]
Fakin the Funk [''The Shit Is Real''] 10 Main Source 3:40 160 kbps Represent [The Samples]
He Loved Him Madly [''You Must Be Out Of Your Fuckin' Mind''] 11 Miles Davis 32:20 160 kbps Represent [The Samples]
Blacks & Blues [''Another Wild Nigger From The Bronx''] 12 Bobbi Humphrey 4:39 160 kbps Represent [The Samples]
Hand On The Pump [''Another Wild Nigger From The Bronx''] 13 Cypress Hill 4:03 160 kbps Represent [The Samples]
Hey Wado [''I'm A Hit That''] 14 Eddie Harris 5:56 160 kbps Represent [The Samples]

Reppin' Time: BX

Fat Joe- The Elephant in the Room [The Samples]
Fat Joe- Me, Myself & I [The Samples]
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I definitely haven't been repping the Bronx enough on this blog. I'll try to make up for it with this two-fer. As I told Ivan the other day, Fat Joe, in my opinion, is the only remaining commercially relevant rapper the Bronx has going for it. I didn't always like him but his last two albums have made a believer of me. He is not the most talented rapper out there, but he's a hard worker and you can tell that he is putting in the effort, even if the result isn't always pretty. He's always had a good ear for beats and these sample sets bear that out. Some of these joints will simply blow your minds ("Fugitive From Love" and "Women of the Ghetto" especially).

A shout out goes to Thomas for his help on both sets.

UPDATE- I forgot to add the Premo scratch samples on "The White". Here it is http://www.zshare.net/download/11821137447ce99b/

Fugitive From Love ['The Fugitive'] 1 Linda Jones 3:00 The Elephant In The Room [The Samples]
Duke Of Earl ['The Crackhouse'] 2 Gene Chandler 2:28 The Elephant In The Room [The Samples]
Hand On The Pump ['The Crackhouse'] 3 Cypress Hill 4:03 The Elephant In The Room [The Samples]
Woman of The Ghetto ['KAR'] 4 Marlena shaw 6:04 The Elephant In The Room [The Samples]
300 War Scene ['300 Brolic] 5 300 0:58 The Elephant In The Room [The Samples]
Returns A King ['300 Brolic'] 6 Tyler Bates 2:25 The Elephant In The Room [The Samples]
Nasty ['The White'] 7 The Eleventh Hour 4:01 The Elephant In The Room [The Samples]


Let Me Be Your Friend ['Pandemic'] 1 The Dynamics 3:49 Me, Myself & I [The Samples]
Excursion With Complications ['Damn'] 2 Bo Hansson 3:29 Me, Myself & I [The Samples]
War ['Breath and Stop'] 3 Bob Marley 3:37 Me, Myself & I [The Samples]
Keep On Runnin' ['She's My Mama'] 4 Black Heat 5:49 Me, Myself & I [The Samples]
Medley: Monologue; You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin ['Jealousy'] 5 Isaac Hayes 15:34 Me, Myself & I [The Samples]
Jan ['Hard Not To Kill'] 6 The Intruders 4:39 Me, Myself & I [The Samples]
Maria ['Benediction Mami'] 7 The Jackson 5 3:44 Me, Myself & I [The Samples]