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Radio rip of Jay-Z's 'Kingdom Come' from the Funkmaster Flex show. Just Blaze has actually had a version of this beat on his myspace page for months. I'm glad he did something with it.
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some background
This is my favorite track in a minute! The beat is
Kudos to Just Blaze!
This reads like a personal challenge to Archaic.
What's the over/under on the response containing the phrase "pop disco trash"?
that's a bad thing?
I wanna hear the whole album already!
The beat is absolute
Please be serious. Of course I like it.
oh, i forgot... Jay-Z still gets a pass, he and only he can do songs with old tired samples chopped up and its okay, right? maybe Ghostface too, or was his pass revoked? no other rappers, though, right? i'm trying to understand, since you are the leading hip hop authority and all
This routine is tiresome, Phill. Thankyou for recognizing my authority, though.
i'm just trying to understand, o' great one! your refusal to explain truly disappoints me, but oh well... maybe someday i'll gain your knowledge and wisdom on all things related to hip hop music. Although if i don't gain it from you i don't know where i'll get it from. Thanks anyway.
anyways this shit is real dope. Flipping superfreak into some raw shit like this is a pretty difficult task
If that's the case, why was the beat for "Show 'Em What You Got" so underbaked?
The new track is cool though.
dude, don't be such a try-hard.
cool
i have no idea what this means, pee pee, but i would assume that this is good advice for me from a knowledgeable persons.
...and BEATDAWG gets to build that extension on his house!
We all know the beat was gonna be hot.
Who wants to break down the lyrics though?
Some perspective from Young Guru, engineer:
???The best thing that I can tell you that there???s a song called ???Kingdom Come??? on the album, which is the title of the album. The way that record came about was from a good friend of mine from college, Lance Williams, he???s one of those dudes that can memorize, he knows how many mics every album ever got. We???re both comic book guys and we???re talking about Kingdom Come which is a comic book that came out about Superman. He was just like, ???Isn???t it weird where hip-hop is at right now, it???s like Kingdom Come and Jay needs to be like Superman.??? I was like, ???You???re right.??? I hadn???t read Kingdom Come in so long so I went
out and bought it and read it. And I???m like ???Oh shit! It???s parallel, it???s crazy.??? So I???m telling Jay the idea, I gave him the book and he got it. That???s why I love that song because one of the things that Superman doesn???t realize in the comic book is, not only how ill he is as a superhero but his influence on inspiring the rest of his peers that are superheroes. So when Superman jets and says, ???Y???all shittin??? on me, y???all want the niggas that???s gon??? kill the people and I don???t kill my enemies, I catch ???em and, cool y???all deal with ???em. I???m good.??? Wonder Woman comes and she???s like ???It ain???t just you doing what you do but Green Lantern ain???t doing his thing no more, The Flash ain???t doing his thing, you???re the leader, you inspire them to keep going and doing what they do.???[/b] That???s where the parallel comes in. And Jay can take an idea and incorporate it into a song better than anybody that I know and when he finally vocalized it, I felt it was exactly what I was thinking about.
???He???s saying, ???I don???t know what life would be in H-I-P-H-O-P without the boy H-O-V not only N-Y-C, I???m hip-hop???s savior, so after this flow you might owe me a favor.??? It???s bringing New York back but it???s also bringing that hardcore hip-hop shit back on top of a beat where Just takes a sample that was used for probably the most pop rap record ever. All the parallels are in there. It???s just a really good record and the people are gonna get it on one level and then a couple weeks later they???ll get it on another level and then they???ll really listen and get every single thing he???s saying in there. I always say he raps on three different levels and you???re gonna get it, eventually.???