prince paul
edith head
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i love him but can see why folks would be 
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edith head
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Explain?
and also because watched my vhs of stetsaonic on an episode of dr. ruth tonight. :soft:?
THO
as a party dj the few times i've seen him he had that energy
"WHAAAAAAAA!?"
I always felt he changed the game.
Daddy-O was the dominant producer w/ StetsaSonic.
Prince Paul open the doors for ATCQ.
GraveDiggaz sampling style is questionable?
I do think he is worthy of critique and not nuthugging.
What was Rza's role tho? I haven't read the liner notes for that album in a long time but I'm guessing dude had a hand in production as well.
i gotta go dig that album back out.
psychoanalysis had a few super duper slick beats on it. not really feeling the last 2 albums though. has he done any recent shit that i'm not up on? i remeber hearing something a while back that he would be the lone producer of the new hiero album.
Yes he did. But Ill argue w/ anyone that's Rza production "style" improved after that collabo.
Shaq n Wade.
yeah they performed "talking all that jazz" to a proto-oprah crowd and the famous "sex shrink" danced and threw her hands in the air which made me shudder and was reallllly uncomfortable to watch!
i love prince paul and don't have any hangups but it seemed like folks in college really scrutinized his style as "backpacker" because he sampled long bars and wasn't too complex? folks were like "he's overrated" you didn't hear that? especially when timbaland bubble/hiccup production was starting to get getting heavy airplay. i still played it heavily but got the "that's pass?? " ice grill
You cant tell me Prince Paul wasnt influenced by what RZA did w/ the Wu-Tang Productions.
I dont think the "team up" was done because of The RZA's lyrics.
And im not questioning his MCin.
its interesting to me to think about why it is i'm relatively ambivalent about him as a producer ... i'm appreciative of obvious samples/one track jacks etc. but i feel like if dudes won't ride for the hitmen/trackmasters style why would it get a pass just cuz the dude from de la does it? But of course i'm being hypocritical in the other direction
YOU NEED TO PUT THIS ON YOUTUBE OR GET OFF THE INTERET
cool
He pretty much pulled off an entire Skit Lp w/ the Prince Among Thieves joker.
Name some kids even tryin shit like this in this day.
Verse Chorus Verse Rap = whateva.....sour old bat
there was a vhs that came out a while back called "the white label vhs" or something like that that had a good amount of shit like this.
Eric B & Rakim - Live @ The Apollo Theater
Boogie Down Productions - Live on The Arsenio Hall Show
Digable Planets - Live @ MTV Spring Break
Stetsasonic - Live on What's Up Dr. Ruth?
Mobb Deep - Live on Teen Summit
Big Daddy Kane - Live on Soul Train
De La Soul - Live on The Arsenio Hall Show
if you watch the mobb deep on teen summit part you can catch mya dancing on stage.
there was supposed to be a part 2, but i never saw the release of it. anyone got it?
i am listening to psychoanlysis right now! and i can't stop laughing especially because of the false ending on 'booty clap" where he says "let's get ready for part 2!!" but there is no part 2. it's just a drum build up and then it dies. comedy!
you made me
beautiful night &
drinks
are the dope songs on that album to me.
"he thought i was a happening guy...becuase i look a little weird."
you made me = nerdy seduction jawn for me in college. seriously, i think i love prince p because he evolved to be a funny and quirky wtf dude.
U didnt get that from Plug Tunin/CoolBrezzeontheRocks?
Or u got to 3ft high and rising later on?
nah 3 ft high and rising i incorporated into my senior high school video english final which was fun but accesible. but the later era prince p, psychoanyalsis gravediggaz stuff was wayy darker and messed up but funny still to me when i started to get into the subversive stuff that didn't cross the goth line. prince p came through with well executed dark comedy and that's why i think i still appreciate him
wow. "wasn't too complex?" He does some amazing, complex layering. It's one thing to sample a bunch of random shit and slap it together, but he pieced together some stuff that really had no business being together and it was magic. Two examples that come to mind right now would be "Saturdays" and "I Am I Be." His production is so much fun. I'm actually more of a loop/layering kind of a guy than I am a chopped to oblivion kind of guy, so I like his style.
I love Prince Paul. I haven't really gone past Prince Among Thieves, but he is one of my favorites.
I didn't know he did anything past Prince Amoung Thieves. But I celebrate dude's entire catalogue before that.
I listened to this album while laying in bed with the lights off. It's audio cinema and should be treated as such. Riding around town bumping individual cuts will not do it justice. I REALLY wish Chris Rock would've made a movie out of it like he was supposed to.
(File under "probably won't ever happen, just like The Broke Diaries movie.")
I think Paul is the shit. He's definitely had his bricks, but to me, he's one of the best. I love his style, his arrangements, his drums, the whole magilla. But, like edith head, I can see how some people wouldn't dig it.
As for Paul and RZA...I think Paul influenced RZA more than the other way around. He tells a story (in WaxPo, I think) about meeting RZA at the studio when RZA was doing "Ooh, We Love You Rakeem ," and RZA only had the loop and needed help with the drums, so Paul programmed him a beat thinking it would just be a dummy track and RZA would redo it, but RZA just put it out as-is.
Handsome Boy Modelling School? (at least the s/t LP)
Really good production, I don't know how much it was directed by the Automator, but the humour on that LP is all Paul.
wow, you're absolutely right. if only i could've articulated this to the haters then