Comments on: Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, Early Hip Hop Entrepreneurs http://boingboing.net/2012/02/14/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-6.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Fri, 24 May 2013 21:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: phuzz http://boingboing.net/2012/02/14/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-6.html#comment-1346660 phuzz Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:00:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=143541#comment-1346660  I remember seeing on some pirate site a few years ago a collection of MP3's claiming to be every track sampled by DJ Shadow on his album Endtroducing (which was entirely sample based). wish I'd picked it up now. Oddly, there's now a group calling themselves Introducing who perform the entire album on live instruments, completing the circle.  I remember seeing on some pirate site a few years ago a collection of MP3′s claiming to be every track sampled by DJ Shadow on his album Endtroducing (which was entirely sample based).
wish I’d picked it up now.
Oddly, there’s now a group calling themselves Introducing who perform the entire album on live instruments, completing the circle.

]]> By: noah django http://boingboing.net/2012/02/14/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-6.html#comment-1346575 noah django Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:49:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=143541#comment-1346575 i found a record that i later found out had the sample for Show&AG's Party Groove on it in a dollar bin.  best believe i got hype back home when i heard that horn come in.  every time i found a copy of a well-known-but-not-rare record with a break on it in a dollar bin, i'd cop it just because I knew i'd eventually wear out my current copies.  i got multiple copies of Queen The Game, Brick (the one with Dazz on it), Kraftwerk Computer World, and Chic (the one with Good Times) that way. [/record nerd] I loved dollar bins. i found a record that i later found out had the sample for Show&AG’s Party Groove on it in a dollar bin.  best believe i got hype back home when i heard that horn come in.  every time i found a copy of a well-known-but-not-rare record with a break on it in a dollar bin, i’d cop it just because I knew i’d eventually wear out my current copies.  i got multiple copies of Queen The Game, Brick (the one with Dazz on it), Kraftwerk Computer World, and Chic (the one with Good Times) that way. [/record nerd]

I loved dollar bins.

]]> By: noah django http://boingboing.net/2012/02/14/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-6.html#comment-1346565 noah django Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:20:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=143541#comment-1346565  plus Ultimate Beats and Breaks had the ill cover art.  better double up!  plus Ultimate Beats and Breaks had the ill cover art.  better double up!

]]> By: benher http://boingboing.net/2012/02/14/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-6.html#comment-1346535 benher Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:48:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=143541#comment-1346535 I can't get enough of these things Ed!!  It would be awesome if some of the story arcs were eventually expanded upon at some point. I can’t get enough of these things Ed!! 
It would be awesome if some of the story arcs were eventually expanded upon at some point.

]]> By: swlabr http://boingboing.net/2012/02/14/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-6.html#comment-1346383 swlabr Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:25:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=143541#comment-1346383 I was browsing in a used record store in a Canadian town around 1984, when I overheard a teenage kid desperately trying to get rid of a crate full of fairly obscure disco 45 EP mixes. The clerk was trying very hard to explain to the kid the essence of the laws of supply and demand, which meant that nobody would be willing to pay for any of this crap for any amount of money, because it was now out of fashion, no matter how much he had paid for them before. The kid was practically crying at that time. At that time, I wanted to advise him to store them his mom's basement for a few decades, but I said nothing. That crate probably ended up in landfill. If it had survived till now, I think it would be virtually worth it's weight in gold.            I was browsing in a used record store in a Canadian town around 1984, when I overheard a teenage kid desperately trying to get rid of a crate full of fairly obscure disco 45 EP mixes. The clerk was trying very hard to explain to the kid the essence of the laws of supply and demand, which meant that nobody would be willing to pay for any of this crap for any amount of money, because it was now out of fashion, no matter how much he had paid for them before. The kid was practically crying at that time. At that time, I wanted to advise him to store them his mom’s basement for a few decades, but I said nothing. That crate probably ended up in landfill. If it had survived till now, I think it would be virtually worth it’s weight in gold.           

]]> By: ill lich http://boingboing.net/2012/02/14/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-6.html#comment-1346189 ill lich Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:39:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=143541#comment-1346189 It shows how serious this comic is getting that he delves into Super Disco Brakes.  When the Ultimate Breaks and Beats LPs started appearing in the mid-80's, it coincides perfectly with when hip-hop really took a quantum leap forward in both composition and "funkiness", of course a lot also has to do with the sampling technology that appeared at the time.   It shows how serious this comic is getting that he delves into Super Disco Brakes.  When the Ultimate Breaks and Beats LPs started appearing in the mid-80′s, it coincides perfectly with when hip-hop really took a quantum leap forward in both composition and “funkiness”, of course a lot also has to do with the sampling technology that appeared at the time.  

]]> By: Incipient Madness http://boingboing.net/2012/02/14/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-6.html#comment-1346079 Incipient Madness Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:15:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=143541#comment-1346079 Presumably that's a reference to DJ Screw. The screwed mix still popular here, though it seems to have gone in and out of style everywhere else. I attribute that to the continued popularity of cheap Mexican "lean". Presumably that’s a reference to DJ Screw. The screwed mix still popular here, though it seems to have gone in and out of style everywhere else. I attribute that to the continued popularity of cheap Mexican “lean”.

]]> By: Sasha@librtee http://boingboing.net/2012/02/14/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-6.html#comment-1346046 Sasha@librtee Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:55:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=143541#comment-1346046 Just watched a wonderful documentary about hip hop entreprensurship, Vice's "Screwed in Houston." Funny, respectful, and entertaining, telling the story of musicians who made it work without any help from the record labels. Inspiring, really. Search it on youtube if you want to watch. Just watched a wonderful documentary about hip hop entreprensurship, Vice’s “Screwed in Houston.” Funny, respectful, and entertaining, telling the story of musicians who made it work without any help from the record labels. Inspiring, really.

Search it on youtube if you want to watch.

]]> By: Mister44 http://boingboing.net/2012/02/14/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-6.html#comment-1346005 Mister44 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:29:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=143541#comment-1346005 One modern album that turned me on to the old breaks the pioneers used was Prodigy's Dirtchamber Session 1. Here is the first track. In the liner notes he lists just about all of the places he samples from. I thought he used that same song from the J.B.s - but I don't see it listed. It may have been another track or another album I am thinking of. (ETA - ah its on track 6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dirtchamber_Sessions_Volume_One ) http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/50908/The%20Prodigy-Dirtchamber%20Track%201_Incredible%20Bongo%20Band-Apache/ I 'discovered' what sampling was with the Beastie Boys. My dad always had oldies on in the car, so when "Low Rider" came on, I thought they ripped off the Beastie Boys (I was young).  Later in life one of my favorite things was taking songs by people like My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult and finding the movies they sampled from. It was like a little inside secret between me and the artist. One modern album that turned me on to the old breaks the pioneers used was Prodigy’s Dirtchamber Session 1. Here is the first track. In the liner notes he lists just about all of the places he samples from. I thought he used that same song from the J.B.s – but I don’t see it listed. It may have been another track or another album I am thinking of. (ETA – ah its on track 6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dirtchamber_Sessions_Volume_One )

http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/50908/The%20Prodigy-Dirtchamber%20Track%201_Incredible%20Bongo%20Band-Apache/

I ‘discovered’ what sampling was with the Beastie Boys. My dad always had oldies on in the car, so when “Low Rider” came on, I thought they ripped off the Beastie Boys (I was young).  Later in life one of my favorite things was taking songs by people like My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult and finding the movies they sampled from. It was like a little inside secret between me and the artist.

]]> By: Ed Piskor http://boingboing.net/2012/02/14/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-6.html#comment-1345951 Ed Piskor Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:53:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=143541#comment-1345951 Another great "Super Disco Brakes" marriage: The J.B's and Public Enemy  http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/1188/Public%20Enemy-Public%20Enemy%20No.%201_Fred%20Wesley%20and%20The%20J.B.%27s-Blow%20Your%20Head/ Another great “Super Disco Brakes” marriage: The J.B’s and Public Enemy  http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/1188/Public%20Enemy-Public%20Enemy%20No.%201_Fred%20Wesley%20and%20The%20J.B.%27s-Blow%20Your%20Head/

]]> By: Mister44 http://boingboing.net/2012/02/14/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-6.html#comment-1345947 Mister44 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:46:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=143541#comment-1345947 Hey B-Boys and B-Girls - if you never checked out "who sampled" it is an awesome site. It shows you who sampled what and allows you to compare the two. Take the classic crystal xylophone in RUN DMC's "Peter Piper": http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/127/Run-DMC-Peter%20Piper_Bob%20James-Take%20Me%20to%20the%20Mardi%20Gras/ Hey B-Boys and B-Girls – if you never checked out “who sampled” it is an awesome site. It shows you who sampled what and allows you to compare the two. Take the classic crystal xylophone in RUN DMC’s “Peter Piper”:
http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/127/Run-DMC-Peter%20Piper_Bob%20James-Take%20Me%20to%20the%20Mardi%20Gras/

]]> By: Mister44 http://boingboing.net/2012/02/14/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-6.html#comment-1345943 Mister44 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:43:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=143541#comment-1345943 Love the little known fact shown in panel 10 that Wolverine used to be a record shop owner. Love the little known fact shown in panel 10 that Wolverine used to be a record shop owner.

]]> By: ill lich http://boingboing.net/2012/02/14/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-6.html#comment-1345884 ill lich Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:31:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=143541#comment-1345884 I remember in the late 90's when Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz had a hit using the opening break from Steely Dan's "Black Cow", suddenly the copies of "Aja" that used to be in the cutout bins were $20 on the wall at every shop in NYC.  I remember in the late 90′s when Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz had a hit using the opening break from Steely Dan’s “Black Cow”, suddenly the copies of “Aja” that used to be in the cutout bins were $20 on the wall at every shop in NYC. 

]]> By: derek prowse http://boingboing.net/2012/02/14/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-6.html#comment-1345792 derek prowse Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:03:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=143541#comment-1345792 I love these muh-fuggas. I love these muh-fuggas.

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