Music of the Moment - October 12, 2009 [Samples Edition]

One of the things I love most about hip hop is the use of samples. It shows a link to today's music and music from the past and can also tell a lot about the artist/producer and the song itself. It's also cool when one song is sampled to create more than one other song. But it's even more dope if the original was in a completely different genre than the songs that sampled it. That's what I figured I would showcase today. Here's an example of song song that was sampled for more than one song and the message in each of the new songs couldn't be anything further from the same.
Sample: Paul Simon - 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover [1975]

Song #1: Tupac & Eminem - Murder Murder [1999]

Song #2: Common - Forever Begins [2007]

Song #3: Kid Cudi - 50 Ways to Make a Record [2007]
Cudi's version is probably my favorite and the closest to Simon's original. But you can definitely hear the similarites to the original in both Eminem and Common's versions. Eminem even used the drum sample again for his 2005 song Like Toy Soldiers.

Pretty dope if you ask me.
And even if you didn't.

Music of the Moment - April 27, 2009

New shit from Yeezy.

Kanye's been one of the busiest guys in hip hop lately so of course I wasn't surprised when I came across another new joint from him. This one is off of G.O.O.D. Morning, G.O.O.D. Night, the new joint from Kanye and Malik Yusef. It's gonna be a double disc with 12 tracks on each cd, representing each hour of the day. I'm definitely coppin this joint asap. Check out the first single, Magic Man from Kanye and Malik Yusef featuring Common and John Legend.

Yurp.

Music of the Moment - April 22, 2009

Kid Cudi might really be nice. I've heard some good stuff from him, I've heard some aight stuff from him, but nothing bad. This new joint off of his latest mixtape, Dat Kid From Cleveland is pretty dope. It's called Daps & Pounds and it's just the latest of hot joints that Cudi has dropped. Check it out.

And if you never got on the I Poke Her Face joint with Kanye, Common and Lady GaGa, then you're sleepin.

Bawse.