Month: May 2014

I’m gonna be good to you


That sample search was also a (painful) reminder I got Her (yeah, HER) an I’m Still in Love With You vinyl a couple years ago. And it was not JUST for the sake of Simply Beautiful being on there. It was more the narrative and message of the album as a whole. I’d give the same gift this time around. Original pressing though.

Ps. That gift also included an OG pressing of Miles Davis My Funny Valentine. Sometimes I was really good. Sometimes.

Willie Mitchell this is your fault.


After listening to my current favsies track off Apollo Brown’s Thirty Eight “Learn The Meaning” I was certain it was the same sample used in that classic Kanye song. “Getting Out the Game”

I remembered it was an Al Green sample. Did the knowledge and found it.

I was ready to be happy and call it quits but the vocal sample didn’t match. So I dug deeper and found the actual origin sample for Learn The Meaning and ’twas this!

Ann Peebles “Until You Came Into My Life”. Now that everything was in order I wondered why I was fooled. And it turns out Al Green’s I’m Still In Love With You was released in 1972 where Ann Peebles I Can’t Stand The Rain was released in 1974. And get this, THEY HAD THE SAME PRODUCER! Willie Mitchell! He basically recycled Al Green’s “What A Wonderful Thing Love Is” and turned it into Ann Peebles’ “Until You Came Into My Life”. Thus solved the mystery of 2 similar sounding samples from similar sounding songs.

Yes I’m a nerd and this stuff is what interests me.

J.LATELY – Make. Believe. [album + “Roses” video]

Make. Believe. includes features from TiRon, Grynch, Azure (HBK), Beejus, CaliMade, Vell Taylor, and Rayana Jay. The production is handled by Jansport J, Azure, Ben Rosen, The Blacksmiths, Arze Kareem, and Matcy P. The album is available for free download, but folks can choose their own price if they’d like to support.

J.LATELY – Make. Believe.

Kosb¥ – Adult Swim (feat. Clyde Shankle and Steve Shankle) | Prod by Kuya Beats.

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CaliMade representative Kosb¥ has been in the cut for the better part of two years perfecting his craft. Today he has premiered his first ever solo song along side his CaliMade brothers Clyde and Steve Shankle. Saving the best for the last, Kosb¥ ends all anticipation with him taking the last verse, displaying witty lyricism over the Kuya Beats production. Adult Swim serves as the first single to Kosby¥’s upcoming project Sitcoms.

That’s all folks.

I wrote this bout 2/3 weeks ago at around 2/3am. Sitting awake. Thinking about the same old things. Love. You. I thought I’d complete it when the events actually took place (or didn’t take place. SPOILER: they didn’t). But I came to the conclusion that it is. And if I add to it later? Then I do. But for now. It’s finished….

I told everyone that my anniversary was the measurement on which to gauge our future. Or lack thereof. And as I sit here longing for you to reach out I can see the empty pages in our book begin to disintegrate. Our story has truly ended. Unfinished and unfulfilled. Nothing left to write. Revising and editing isn’t possible. Just reading and reliving the memories. Good and bad. The Love will always remain. What we were. What we are. What we could have been. Our future fading away on empty pages.

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