Statik Selektah 100 Proof Promo
January 14, 2010
Heres some promo for Statik Selektah’s upcoming 100 Proof project. For this presentation he enlists Tip, Kweli, Tekzilla, and Primo, not a bad list of co-signers. 100 Proof features all new music from acts such as Saigon, Novel, Talib Kweli, Kool G Rap and more all of course produced by Show Off Records honcho, Statik Selektah.
Bloggin 4 Beats: Breathe & Stop Remix
July 21, 2009
How many producers can say they’ve had their own voice used in a beat? That’s exactly what I did with this remix of Q-Tip’s “Breathe & Stop.” I took his heavy breathing from “Find A Way” and his “inhale” from “Sucka Nigga” and put them over some chopped Impeach drums and other goodies.
NOTE: I’m just mad at whoever ripped this acapella cuz it skips around 49 seconds. Had to work around it.
Q-Tip Honored At One Stop Shop Conference
June 17, 2009
Q-Tip Talks J-Dilla/Miles Davis @ Noisemakers
April 16, 2009
Grandmaster Flash dropping “The Bridge” on March 3rd
January 20, 2009
Grandmaster Flash dropping “The Bridge” LP March 3rd on Strut Records.
Nodfactor CD Reviews Round-Up
November 30, 2008
Christmas is coming early so go and cop the latest collections that are worth your hard-earned chips. [Read more]
New Video: Q-Tip’s “Renaissance Rap”
November 19, 2008
New video from The Renaissance directed by Rik Cordero:
Busta Rhymes and Q-Tip at Knitting Factory
September 24, 2008
If you got into the free show at the Knitting factory you were treated to a nice surprise. Shout out to Ms. Info., Mike Fresh and Nahright for the vid…
The Knitting Factory
74 Leonard St. (b/t Church and Broadway)
NEW YORK, NY 10013
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Do The Knowledge: Q-Tip and Black Ivory
Do The Knowledge: Q-Tip & Black Ivory
September 11, 2008
Ahh, so the new Q-tip video for “Gettin’ Up” debuted on Nahright today. (Damn, the days of debuting on TV are really a wrap, huh?) So I’m listening to it and think “this is hot.”
While most people are probably distracted by the crazy ass outfits Tip is wearing I’m all in this BEAT like, “what is that sample?” and “it sounds vaguely familair…” So I do some homework and find out that it’s Black Ivory’s “You and I.”
What I’m about to say will strike some of you as odd, but I don’t know that much about Black Ivory. Unlike some people, I’m not afraid to say when I don’t know something. So I went looking and found this on Wikipedia:
Black Ivory is the name of an R&B group from Harlem, which had a number of hits in the 1970s, including “Don’t Turn Around”, “You and I” (which featured Larry Blackmon from Cameo on drums), “I’ll Find a Way (The Loneliest Man in Town)”, “Spinning Around”, “What Goes Around (Comes Around)”, “Will We Ever Come Together”, and “Mainline”. The group featured songwriter and prolific disco producer Leroy Burgess, Stuart Bascombe, and Russell Patterson. They were managed by Patrick Adams, an executive at the Today/Perception record company. Burgess was the lead voice of the majority of their hits in the early ’70’s. With Today/Perception being a small label, the promotion of Black Ivory’s singles scarcely got beyond the East Coast. This lack of exposure, coupled with the rise of disco and the fact Adams was beginning to branch out into other projects, caused Black Ivory to lose steam.
Turns out 9th Wonder and Brother Ali have touched that wax as well.
Now, after some more snooping around I see that some of you in cyberspace recognize this sample from Madlib’s Beat Konducta collection. For those of you who haven’t heard it or might have missed it (like me) here it is:
This is why I love hip-hop. Very different usage of the same sample. But now the question I’m trying to answer is, “Who produced it?” and at first I read conflicting reports. Some said Mark Ronson,(probably because he debuted it on his radio show over the summer) others said J-Dilla (just cuz, hey, it’s dope and it’s Q-Tip, right?) but Tip’s management says that the Abstract twisted the nobs on this one. Shout out to FWMJ at Rappersiknow for the investigative reporting.
Now I hope this means Tip will actually be dropping The Renaissance in November.
88 Keys and Q-Tip Buggin Out, Taking “Viagra”
August 25, 2008
In preparation for his debut CD, The Death of Adam, producer 88 Keys has released this commercial/news report on the demise of his lead character:
Now only if he can get Q-tip to put out that CD…Consequence seems to know something we don’t..
Also, peep the new joint from 88 Keys featuring Kanye West “Stay Up” (Viagra)
