Life After The Singularity

The Wright Album Samples (Compiled by Kasper of Rap1masse)

As far as I know this is a first, a sample set for a remix album. The remix album was made by Kasper/Isbjerg over at Rap1masse. It was so hot that I had to get ny hands on the samples. The album blends The Black Album with some great tracks from O.V. Wright's career. It's definitely worth a checkout. I plan on doing sets for his and other remix albums soon.

New Poll: Love Letdown

This is another poll inspired by a conversation I had with a friend. Basically, as a huge fan of both Jay-Z and Kanye, I'm very disappointing by the lead singles for their repsctive albums scheduled to drop this december. The problem is that I can't decide which is more dissapointing. Vote on the right and explain in the comments. Peace.

Rice and Beans

Beanie Sigal - The Truth & The Reason [The Samples]

I post this with a huge apology to Thomas. He hooked me up with most of these from a while back, I just hadn't got'n around to posting them yet. I meant to add the samples for "The Solution" to this set, but I'm still digging out a good sample list for it. This has been a long time coming.

Kingdom Came (It wasn't all that impressive)

Jay-Z - Kingdom Come [The Samples]
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I only started on this a few days ago but thanks to a major assist from Thomas, it's finito. This is probably Jay's worst recieved album even though, in my opinion, it's faaaaaaar better than volume 2 and on par with volume 3 and Blueprint 2, but obviously below his best. Much of the album is played so only about half the tracks use samples, the obvious ones being the "Superfreak" sample on "Kingdom Come" and the "Shaft in Africa" sample on "Show Me..." So Between Kev, Ivan, and I, we've done sets for all of Jay's albums (unless someone is REALLY dying to hear a sample set for "Street's is Watching"). Hooray for us...or not.

Keep The Faith ['The Prelude'] 1 Mel & Tim 3:53 Kingdom Come [The Samples]
Whipping Post ['Oh My God'] 2 Genya Ravan 4:32 Kingdom Come [The Samples]
Super Freak ['Kingdom Come'] 3 Rick James 3:26 Kingdom Come [The Samples]
100 Guns ['Kingdom Come'] 4 KRS-One 3:58 Kingdom Come [The Samples]
Ode to Billy Joe ['Kingdom Come'] 5 Lou Donaldson 6:32 Kingdom Come [The Samples]
Shaft In Africa ['Show Me What You Got'] 6 Johnny Pate 3:04 Kingdom Come [The Samples]
Show Em Whatcha Got ['Show Me What You Got'] 7 Public Enemy 1:56 Kingdom Come [The Samples]
Darkest Light ['Show Me What You Got'] 8 Lafayette Afro Rock Band 6:21 Kingdom Come [The Samples]
Take Me To The Mardi Gras ['Dig A Hole'] 9 Bob James 5:51 Kingdom Come [The Samples]
Non Ti Scordar Di Me [Minority Report'] 10 Luciano Pavarotti 2:59 Kingdom Come [The Samples]
22 Two's ['44 Fours] 11 Jay-Z 3:31 Kingdom Come [The Samples]

Alternate Mirror - Use only if Megaupload link is down or Mega doesn't work in your country. Megaupload's insanely inaccurate but still useful counter helps me get a sense of which sets are most popular and thus what to do more of.

Mr. Lucky Lefty

Jay-Z - Vol, 3. The Life and Times of S. Carter [The Samples]
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This is another Chris Paul-David West alley-hoop from Thomas. Ivan and Kev have already done most of Jay's catalog (except "Kingdom Come", which I started on a few days ago). Since this album was made at the height of the whole early 200o's Timbo and Swizzy induced Cassio-craze there aren't as many samples as there are on a usual Jay album; But the ones here are especially serious (The two "Big Pimpin" samples are the on opposite sides of the music spectrum but are both works of immaculate beauty).

The Burining of The Midnight Lamp ['Hova Song (Intro-Outro)'] 1 Rotary Connection 4:42 Vol. 3... Life And Times Of S. Carter [The Samples]
Crop Dustin' ['So Ghetto'] 2 Steve Cropper 3:05 Vol. 3... Life And Times Of S. Carter [The Samples]
Sporco Ma Distinto ['So Ghetto'] 3 Ennio Morricone 1:59 Vol. 3... Life And Times Of S. Carter [The Samples]
Who You Wit II ['So Ghetto'] 4 Jay-Z 4:30 Vol. 3... Life And Times Of S. Carter [The Samples]
Overnight Scenario ['Let's Do It Again'] 5 Rare Essence 4:56 Vol. 3... Life And Times Of S. Carter [The Samples]
Heads High ['S. Carter'] 6 Mr. Vegas 3:31 Vol. 3... Life And Times Of S. Carter [The Samples]
Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime ['Big Pimpin'] 7 The Korgis 4:12 Vol. 3... Life And Times Of S. Carter [The Samples]
Khosara ['Big Pimpin'] 8 Abdel Halim Hafez 2:16 Vol. 3... Life And Times Of S. Carter [The Samples]
Murder ['There's Been a Murder'] 8 Alana Davis 5:01 Vol. 3... Life And Times Of S. Carter [The Samples]
Keep It Comin' Love ['Girl's Best Friend'] 9 KC and the Sunshine Band 4:29 Vol. 3... Life And Times Of S. Carter [The Samples]
Contract Man ['Come and Get Me'] 10 Bullet and Alan Tew 2:27 Vol. 3... Life And Times Of S. Carter [The Samples]
Life Could Be So Grand ['NYMP'] 11 Brian & Brenda 4:18 Vol. 3... Life And Times Of S. Carter [The Samples]
I'd Do Anything ['Anything'] 12 Lionel Bart 3:47 Vol. 3... Life And Times Of S. Carter [The Samples]

Dear Spring

Memphis Bleek - 534 [The Samples]
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I originally set out to make a sample set for Bleek's previous album, MADE. Somewhere along the line I decided this sample set was more interesting. The production is handled mainly by Just Blaze and 9th Wonder so as expected the Samples Knock.

I've done all the sets I originally set out to make so I'm open to suggestions right now.

Summer Song ('Interlude') 1 Lisa Koch 1:30 534 [The Samples]
Morning Sunrise ('Dear Summer') 2 Lenny White 3:19 534 [The Samples]
Everybody Plays The Fool ('Like That') 3 the Main Ingrediants 3:22 534 [The Samples]
Loves Me Like a Rock ('Like That') 4 The Dixie Hummingbirds 2:56 534 [The Samples]
Just Can't Stay Away ('The One') 5 Natalie Cole 5:28 534 [The Samples]
Never Know What You Can Do ('First, Last and Only') 6 Leroy hutson 3:51 534 [The Samples]
Bootleggin' ('Get Low') 7 Simtec and Wylie 5:28 534 [The Samples]
I Think I'll Stay Home Today ('Smoke The Pain Away') 8 Billy Paul 6:16 534 [The Samples]
Trace of Your Love ('Alright') 9 Joe Simon 0:54 534 [The Samples]
Slow Tongue ('All About Me') 10 Millie Jackson 4:04 534 [The Samples]
Something ('Straight Path') 11 Al Green 4:26 534 [The Samples]

Un-B. Coming

The B. Coming [The Samples] - Beanie Sigel
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Like the rest of the samples I've posted so far, this album is a personal favorite (though the beats haven't aged as well as the Dipset albums(The Heatmakerz really were geniuses)). Lyrically it is Bean's strongest. Though a brigade of producers contributed to the album (and the beats reflect this), the samples are surprisingly consistent and balanced.

I found contradictary info as to which Carrie Lucas song ("Dance with you" or "Questions") was sampled on "Once Again It's On". I planned on including both in the set but I couldn't find even a snippet of "Questions" (off her 1978 album "Street Corner Symphony"). So if anyone has the song or the album, hit me up in the comments.

Whole Lotta Something Goin' On ('Feel It In The Air') 1 Raphael Ravenscroft 4:56 The B. Coming [The Samples]
Love Me or Leave Me ('I Can't Go On This Way') 2 Gloria Scott 4:10 The B. Coming [The Samples]
That's What's Wrong With Me ('Gotta Have It') 3 Rose Royce 6:39 The B. Coming [The Samples]
Find A Way ('Don't Stop') 4 A Tribe Called Quest 3:23 The B. Coming [The Samples]
In the rain ('Purple Rain') 5 The Dramatics 3:27 The B. Coming [The Samples]
Oh Daddy ('Oh Daddy') 6 Fleetwood Mac 3:58 The B. Coming [The Samples]
My First Love ('Change Gonna Come') 7 Rene & Angela 4:38 The B. Coming [The Samples]
Proud Of You ('Bread and Butter') 8 Johnny Guitar Watson 6:08 The B. Coming [The Samples]
Poor Abbey Walsh ('Flatline') 9 Marvin Gaye 4:13 The B. Coming [The Samples]
Ancient Saga ('Tales of a Hustler') 10 Passport 4:19 The B. Coming [The Samples]
Come On Down ('Look At Me Now') 11 Greg Perry 3:33 The B. Coming [The Samples]
Dance With You ('Once Again It's On) 12 Carrie Lucas 6:32 The B. Coming [The Samples]
Wanted Dead Or Alive ('Wanted') 13 Bon Jovi 5:11 The B. Coming [The Samples]

Breaking down the Philadelphia Freeway

Philadelphia Freeway [The Samples]
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Putting together this set, I've learned to stop trusting linear notes. I was on a wild goose chase for the song "To get love...". The linear notes lists it as an Ultimate Music Experience song. I searched everywhere but couldn't even find a mention of the song outside of this album's linear notes. After having almost given up on it I had an epiphany at some point today and figured out that it was actually by the group Blue Magic. It still wasn't easy finding the track but thanks to the beautiful underworld ((c) Don DeLillo) of shady hip-hop/porn forums, I tracked down the original album.

Next Up is either Uptown Saturday Night or Beanie's B.Coming. The problem with USN is that I can only find sample listings for about half of the album (though the rest are very obviously also sample based tracks). I've found all the samples I know of, but I'm a little conflicted about posting a knowingly incomplete set.

Freeway Song ('Free') 160 kbps 4:01 1 Vicki Sue Robinson Philadelphia Freeway [The Samples]
I Just Can't See Myself Without You ('What We Do') 160 kbps 3:47 2 Creative Source Philadelphia Freeway [The Samples]
I Want to Go Back ('All My Life') 160 kbps 3:06 3 The Impressions ft. Curtis Mayfield Philadelphia Freeway [The Samples]
To Get Love (You Must Give Love) ('Don't Cross The Line') 160 kbps 5:21 4 Blue Magic Philadelphia Freeway [The Samples]
Life for the Taking ('Life') 160 kbps 4:47 5 Eddie Money Philadelphia Freeway [The Samples]
We Belong Together ('Victim of the Ghetto') 160 kbps 4:17 6 The Spinners Philadelphia Freeway [The Samples]
Inside my Love ('You Don't Know') 160 kbps 3:57 7 Minnie Ripperton Philadelphia Freeway [The Samples]
Mystic Brew ('Alright') 160 kbps 4:08 8 Ronnie Foster Philadelphia Freeway [The Samples]