Roots Manuva - 4everevolution (2011) TrackList and Details:
The album will be Manuva's first proper album since 2008's record "Slime & Reason", and comes almost exactly a year after his 2010 remix collection "Duppy Writer". The album is almost an hour lenght, consists of seventeen tracks and covers every style from wonky reggae through pop-funk, street spitting, straight up hip hop beats, sung ballads and epic death-disco. The album of most famous UK MC's features a number of guest appearances from MCs and other hip hop artists as well as Skunk Anansie singer Skin and the band's bassist Cass Lewis, who have contributed to one of the tracks, also Daddy Kope, DJ MK, Ricky Ranking, Elan Tamara, Spikey T and Rokhsan..
Tracklist:
01 - First Growth 02 - Here We Go Again 03 - Skid Valley 04 - Who Goes There? 05 - Watch Me Dance 06 - Revelation 07 - Wha' Mek? 08 - Takes Time To 09 - Beyond This World 10 - Go Champ 11 - Get The Get 12 - Crow Bars 13 - In The Throes Of It 14 - Noddy 15 - Much Too Plush 16 - The Path 17 - Banana Skank
Members of the The Outlawz (Tupac's former rap group) released a video in which they claim they rolled up 2Pac's ashes with weed and smoked him up at a family memorial event. The rappers claim Pac's mother was present at the time. Tupac Shakur's mother would "never participate in smoking her son" When Tupac Shakur was cremated following his 1996 death, his ashes weren't kept in an urn on someone's mantle. The rapper's former group, The Young Outlawz, claim that they smoked Shakur's ashes because that was his wishes, based on the lyrics of one of his songs. The wish came according to Pac’s lyrics on the track, “Black Jesus,” from Still I Rise. There’s no proof that they caught a contact from his skill, however. In a new video for VladTV, members of the reunited group addressed the long-standing rumors that the remains of Shakur, who died in 1996, were rolled up and smoked.
Sampling means the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song or piece. Often music samples consist of one part of a song, such as a break, used in another, for instance the use of the drum loop introduction from Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks" in songs by the Beastie Boys, Dr. Dre, Eminem. The first sampler I ever heard was on a 1980 record. The track "Army Dreamers" from the Kate Bush album "Never For Ever". Although my ears told me that I was hearing a cello there was no mention of a cellist, just a credit to one Geoff Downes on "Fairlight". Whatever this mysterious device was.
The hip hop band Sugar Hill Gang create one of the best-known and earliest examples of a genuine sampling music track. Except that the track in question, Rapper's Delight, does not sample Chic's Good Times at all – the famous loop is actually played by the Sugar Hill house band, Positive Force. The early '90's would prove crucial to the history of sampling, solidifying and defining it as a mode of expression beyond the experimentation that had occurred before. This would lead to not only rap, hip-hop artists such as De La soul, Beastie boys, NWA refining their own music and ideas, leaving the late '80's/early '90's as a golden age for sampling, not just in hip hop, but in music in general.
1987 - The Roger Linn - designed "MPC-60" kick starts another hip-hop phenomenon. Not so loose as the "SP-1200", it would start a legacy of syncopated MPC groove-based programming that continues to this very day. Akai recently revamped its MPC range, one of the few hardware sampling lines remaining in our virtual world. In 1988 Akai's "S1000" absolutely revolutionises the professional sampling industry, putting 16-bit CD-quality sampling within reach of almost any studio and producer. Many hip hop genres can directly attribute their creation to this seminal machine, and countless tracks have been produced on it. Sampling has come a long way in 30 years, from primitive big machines owned exclusively by the rich and famous, to a much more highly developed technology that is available to the all hip hop producers. Sound quality, facilities and programmability have increased as dramatically as prices have dropped. Today's memory capacities are beyond even the wildest dreams of the early sampler owners. So where does it go from here? Sampling has grown closer and closer to hard disk recording.
The time is nearing for one of the year's most talked about rap releases to make its debut and Lil Wayne is feeding his fans some morsels to tide them over until 'Tha Carter IV' officially drops on Aug. 29. No word on if this is the final tracklist for Tha Carter IV, but this could be the real deal. If so, this looks good. We’ll find out soon. We hope to hear a really cool hip hop beats.
