"Our Generation" by Ernie Hines and "Bootleggin'" by Simtec & Wylie via "Straighten It Out" by Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth




Magic Mountain by Eric Burdon & War from "Potholes In My Lawn" by De La Soul (and "Wandering Star" by Portishead)



"We Getting Down" by Weldon Irvine from "Award Tour" by A Tribe Called Quest



"Nautilus" by Bob James is in a million hip hop tracks, but I associate it with "Daytona 500" by Ghostface Killah more than anything else

Through Kanye's FML.

This was the base of a terrible Drake single.

jimmy spako wrote: Tue Jul 22, 2025 8:33 am

Through Kanye's FML.

I still think that album is incredible. Brilliant production all across the record.

Curren$y's "Leaving the Dock" produced by Harry Fraud features ELO's "Another Heart Breaks." That whole ELO album is pretty good, maybe the best one.

enframed wrote:

jimmy spako wrote: Tue Jul 22, 2025 8:33 am

Through Kanye's FML.

I still think that album is incredible. Brilliant production all across the record.

I'm with you. Honestly, it might be one of my favorite records. I put it on about once a year for a couple days and get weepy, truth be told. I connected with it in a big way as a newish dad going through a lot of stuff. It's honest and raw and, yes, the production is inspired. I know he was never a particularly great dude, but it is tragic what became of him. Thought of him a lot while watching Quest Love's Sly Stone doc.

(transcendent)

led me to

A long time ago, De La Soul’s “Eye Know” made me aware of “Peg”. And the 12” of Eric B and Rakim’s “Paid In Full” put me onto Ofra Haza’s “Im Nin Alu” which I still love.

Used to excellent effect on Madvillainy