The first single off of Nas’ Hip Hop Is Dead, the will.i.am-produced “Hip Hop Is Dead,” is his look at the genre that he calls “Rome for the Hood”; the track melds together Iron Butterfly’s the Incredible Bongo Band cover of the psych-sludge classic “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” and the “Apache” break.
Nas – Hip Hop Is Dead [MP3, link expired; via Nah Right]
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Ugh. What, a more obvious sample wasn’t available?
Terrible. Blah.
what is this? its like he’s not singing, he’s just talking real fast? what the hell kind of music is this supposed to be?
my new album, Tales From The Odious Realm, Part III: The Doppelgangbanger, is out the second quarter of ’08.
Wil.I.Am. really dropped the ball on this, Nas came correct, but the beat is terrible.
Do I hear a Roots sample too?
The Thief’s Theme > This
Bah! I mixed those tunes together myself off vinyl years ago!
It’s so damn obvious that I don’t do it these days…